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 82 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 90-490-AUG. 16, 1968

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"(b) The portion of the sums so appropriated for each fiscal year which shall be available for grants under each such section shall be determined by the Secretary unless otherwise provided in the Act or Acts appropriating such sums for such year. 'INSTITUTIONAL GRANTS

"SEC. 771. (a)(1) The sums available for grants under this sec- Distribution. tion from appropriations under section 770 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, and for the next fiscal year shall be distributed to the schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, pharmacy, optometry, veterinary medicine, and podiatry with approved applications as follows: Each school shall receive $25,000; and of the remainder— " (A) 75 per centum shall be distributed on the basis of— "(i) the relative enrollment of full-time Students for such year, and "(ii) the relative increase in enrollment of such students for such year over the average enrollment of such school for the five school years preceding the year for which the application is made; with the amount per full-time student so computed that a school receives twice as much for each such student in the increase as for other full-time students, and " (B) 25 per centum shall be distl^buted on the basis of the relative number of graduates for such year. In computing the increase under clause (a) (ri) of the preceding sentence for any school, there shall be excluded a number equal to the increase required by subsection (b)(1) (except in the case of a school to which the third sentence of such subsection applies). "(2) For the fiscal years ending June 30, 1970, and June 30, 1971, only, the sum computed under paragraph (1) for any school which is less than the amount such school received under this section for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, shall be increased to that amount, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the sums computed under such paragraph (1) for the remaining schools, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the sums computed for any of such remaining schools from being reduced to less than the amount it received for such fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, under this section, "(b)(1) The Secretary shall not make a grant under this section Enrollment in to any school unless the application for such grant contains or is "ent.^ requiresupported by reasonable assurances that for the first school year beginning after the fiscal year for which such grant is made and each school year thereafter during which such a grant is made the firstyear enrollment of full-time students in such school will exceed the average of the first-year enrollments of such students in such school for the two school years having the highest such enrollment during the five school years during the period of July 1, 1963, through June 30, 1968, by at least 2i/^ per centum of such average first-year enrollments, or by five students, whichever is greater. The requirements of this paragraph shall be in addition to the requirements of section 721(c)(2)(D) of this Act, where applicable. The Secretary is author- 77 Stat. lee. ized to waive (in whole or in part) the provisions of this paragraph waiver. ^'*^^ if he determines, after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Educational Assistance, 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 provided therein.

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