Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 80 Part 1.djvu/1261

 80 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 89-751-NOV. 3, 1966

"(ii) in the case of a project for replaceiiient or reliabilitation of existing facilities of a training center for allied health professions, the relative need for such replacement or rehabilitation to prevent curtailment of the center's enrollment or deterioration of the quality of the training provided by the center, and the relative size of any such curtailment and its effect on the geographical distribution of opportunities for training in the allied health professions involved (giving consideration to the factors mentioned above in subparagraph (i)); and " (C) in the case of an applicant in a State which has in existence a State or local area agency involved in planning for facilities for the training of allied health professions personnel, or which participates in a regional or other interstate agency involved in planning for such facilities, the relationship of the application to the construction or training program which is being developed by such agency or agencies and, if such agency oi* agencies have reviewed such application, any comment thereon submitted by them. "Amount of Construction (jrant; Payments •'(c)(1) The amount of any grant for a construction project under this section shall be such amount as the Surgeon General determines to be Appropriate; except that (A) in the case of a grant for a pi-oject for a new training center for allied health professions, and in the case of a grant for a project for new facilities for an existing center where such facilities are of particular importance in providing n major expansion of the training capacity of such center, as determined in ac^'.ordance with regulations, such amount may not exceed 66% per centum of the necessary cost of construction, as determined by the Surgeon General, of such project; and (B) in the case of any other grant, such amount may not exceed 50 per centum of the necessary cost of construction, as so determined, of the project with reRpect to which the grant is made. "(2) Upon approval of any application for a grant under this section, the Surgeon General shall reserve, from any appropriation available therefor, the amount of such grant as detennined under paragraph (1); the amount so reserved may be paid in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments consistent with construction progress, as the Surgeon General may determine. The Surgeon General's reservation of any amount under this subsection may be amended by him, either upon approval of an amendment of the application or upon revision of the estimated cost of constniction of the facility. "(3) In determining the amount of any grant ujuier this section, there shall be excluded from the cost of construction an amount equal to the sum of (A) the amount of any other Federal grant which the applicant has obtained, or is assured of obtaining, with respex;t to the construction which is to }ye, financed in part by the grant undei' this

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