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PUBLIC LAW 88-443-AUG. 18, 1964

[78 STAT.

"STATE PLANS

"SEC. 604. (a) Any State desiring to participate in this part may submit a State plan. Such phm must— "(1) designate a single State agency as the sole agency for the administration of the plan, or designate such agency as the sole agency for supervising the administration of the plan; "(2) contain satisfactory evidence that the State agency designated in accordance with paragraph (1) will have authority to carry out such plan in conformity with this part; "(3) provide for the designation of a State advisory council which shall include representatives of nongovernmental organizations or groups, and of public agencies, concerned with the operation, construction, or utilization of hospital or other facilities for diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of illness or disease, or for provision of rehabilitation services, and an equal number of representatives of consumers familiar with the need for the services provided by such facilities, to consult with the State agency in carrying out the plan, and provide, if such council does not include any representatives of nongovernmental organizations or groups, or State agencies, concerned with rehabilitation, for consultation with organizations, groups, and State agencies so concerned; "(4) set forth, in accordance with criteria established in regulations prescribed under section 603 and on the basis of a statewide inventory of existing facilities, a survey of need, and (except to the extent provided by or pursuant to such regulations) community, area, or regional plans— " (A) the number of general hospital beds and lon^-term care beds, and the number and types of hospital facilities and facilities for long-term care, needed to provide adequate facilities for inpatient care of people residing in the State, and a plan for the distribution of such beds and facilities in service areas throughout the State; " (B) the public health centers needed to proivide adequate public health services for people residing in the State, and a plan for the distribution of such centers throughout the State; " (C) the diagnostic or treatment centers needed to provide adequate diagnostic or treatment services to ambulatory patients residing in the State, and a plan for distribution of such centers throughout the State; " (D) the rehabilitation facilities needed to assure adequate rehabilitation services for disabled persons residing in the State, and a plan for distribution of such facilities throughout the State; and " (E) effective January 1, 1966, the extent to which existing facilities referred to in section 601(a) or (b) in the State are in need of modernization; "(5) set forth a construction and modernization program conforming to the provisions set forth pursuant to paragraph (4) and regulations prescribed under section 603 and providing for construction or modernization of the hospital or long-term care facilities, public health centers, diagnostic or treatment centers, and rehabilitation facilities which are needed, as determined under the provisions so set forth pursuant to paragraph (4); "(6) set forth, with respect to each of such types of medical facilities, the relative need, determined in accordance with regulations prescribed under section 603, for projects for facilities of

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