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PUBLIC LAW 88-443-AUG. 18, 1964

"STUDIKS AND DEJIONSTKATIONS RKLATING TO ("OOKDINA'JT.D USE OF IK)81MTAL F A C I L l T l E S

"SEC. {)-24. (a) The Surgeon Geiieriil is authorized to conduct research, experinients, and demonstrations rehiting to the effective development and utilization of services, facilities, and resources of hospitals or other medical facilities and, after consultation with the Federal Hospital Council, to make grants-in-aid to States, political subdivisions, universities, hospitals, and other public and nonprolit private institutions or organizations for projects for the conduct of research, experiments, or demonFtrations relating to the development, utilization, and coordination ol services, facilities, and resources of hospitals or other medical facilities, agencies, or institutions, and including the construction of units of hospitals or other medical facilities which involve experimental architectural designs or functional layout, the efficiency or economy of which can be tested and evaluated, or the demonstration thereof, and projects for acquisition of experimental or demonstration equipment for use in connection with hospitals or other medical facilities. Any award for any such project made from an appropriation under this section for any fiscal year may include such amounts as the Surgeon General determines to be necessary for succeeding fiscal yeare for completion of the Federal participation in the project as approved by the Surgeon General. Payments of any such grant may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments, as may be determined by the Surgeon General; and shall be made on such conditions as the Surgeon General finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. A grant under this section with respect to any project for construction of a facility or for acquisition of equipment (1) may not exceed $500,000, and (2) except where the Surgeon General determines that unusual circumstances make a larger percentage necessary in order to effectuate the purposes of this section, may not exceed 50 per centum of so much of the cost of such facility or such equipment as the Surgeon General determines is reasonably attributable to experimental or demonstration purposes. The provisions of clause (5) of the third sentence of subsection (a) of section 605 and any other provisions of such section which the Surgeon General deems appropriate shall be applicable, along with such other conditions as the Surgeon General may determine, to grants under this section for projects for construction or for acquisition of equipment. There is authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $10,000,000 for any fiscal year to carry out the provisions of this section. " (b) If, within twenty years after completion of any construction for which funds have been paid under this section— "(1) the applicant or other owner of the facility shall cease to be a public or other nonprofit institution or organization, or "(2) the facility shall cease to be used for the purposes for which it was constructed or for the provision of hospital or other services for which construction projects may be approved under this title (unless the Surgeon General determines, in accordance with regulations, that there is good cause for releasing the applicant or other owner from the obligation to do so), the United States shall be entitled to recover from the applicant or other owner of the facility an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value (as determined by agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States district court for the district in which such facility is situated) of the facility, as the amount of the Federal participation bore to the cost of construction of such facility. Such right of recovery shall not constitute a lien on such facility prior to judgment.

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