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PUBLIC LAW 89-290-OCT. 22, 1965

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if he determines, after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Medical, Dental, and Optometric, and Pediatric Education, that the required increase in first-year enrollment of full-time students in a school cannot, because of limitations of physical facilities available to the school for training, be accomplished without lowering the quality of training for such students. "(c) For purposes of this part and part F, regulations of the Surgeon General shall include provisions relating to determination of the number of Students enrolled in a school, or in a particular year-class in a school, as the case may be, on the basis of estimates, or on the basis of the number of students enrolled in a SChool, or in a particular yearclass in a school, in an earlier year, as the case may be, or on such basis as he deems appropriate for making such determination, and shall include methods of making such determinations when a school or a year-class was not in existence in an earlier year at a school. " (d) For purposes of this part and part F, the term 'full-time s t u d e n t s. ' ,t',X""l"r^ students' (whether such term is used by itself or in connection with a particular year-^class) means students pursuing a full-time course of study leading to a degree of doctor of medicine, doctor of dentistry or an equivalent degree, doctor of o to p a t h y, doctor of optometry or an equivalent degree, or doctor of podiatry or an equivalent degree. ((SPECIAL

IMPROVEMENT GRANTS

"SEC. 772. (a) From the sums appropriated under section 770 for any fiscal year and not required for making grants under section 771, the Surgeon General may make an additional grant for such year to any school of medicine, dentistry, o^teopaithy, optometry, or podiatry which has an approved application therefor and for which an application has been approved under section 771, if he determines that the requirements of subsection (b) are satisfied in the case of such applicant. "(b) No special improvement grant shall be made under this section unless such grant is recommended by the National Advisory Council on Medical, Dental, Optometric, and Pediatric Education and the Surgeon General determines that such grant will be utilized by the recipient school (1) to contribute toward the maintenance of, or to provide for, accreditation, or (2) to contribute toward the maintenance of, or to provide for, specialized functions which the school serves. "(c) No grant to any school under this section may exceed $100,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966; $200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967; $300,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; or $400,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. ((APPLICATION S

FOR GRANTS

"SEC. 773. (a) The Surgeon General may from time to time set dates (not earlier than in the fiscal year preceding the year for which a grant is sought) by which applications for basic or special grants under section 771 or 772 for any fiscal year must be filed. "(b) To be eligible for a grant under this part, the applicant must (1) be a public or other nonprofit school of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, or podiatry, and (2) be accredited by a recognized body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Commissioner of Education, except that the requirement of this clause (2) shall be deemed to be satisfied if, (A) in the case of a school which by reason of no, or an insufficient, period of operation is not, at the time of application for a grant under this part, eligible for such accreditation, the

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