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PUBLIC LAW 92-157-NOV. 18, 1971

[85 STAT.

1974, for the purpose of making payments pursuant to grants and contracts under this section. Funds appropriated under this subsection for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, shall remain available for obligation through September 30, 1972. "GRANTS

Appropriation.

Ante, p. 444.

TO ASSIST

HEALTH PROFESSIOXS SCHOOLS WHICH FINANCIAL DISTRESS

ARE I N

uQ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ There are authorized to be appropriated $20,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, and $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, to make grants under this section, and, to the extent that sums appropriated under this subsection are not used for such grants, for grants under section 772. Funds appropriated under this subsection for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, shall remain available for obligation through September 30, 1972. " (b) The Secretary may make grants to assist any school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, or podiatry which is in serious financial straits to meet its costs of operation or which has special need for financial assistance to meet accreditation requirements. "(c) Any grant under this section may be made upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary determines to be reasonable and necessary, including requirements that the school agree (1) to disclose any financial information or data deemed by the Secretary to be necessary to determine the sources or causes of that school's financial distress, (2) to conduct a comprehensive cost analysis study in cooperation with the Secretary, and (3) to carry out appropriate operational and financial reforms on the basis of information obtained in the course of the comprehensive cost analysis study or on the basis of other relevant information. " (d) An application for a grant under this section must contain or be supported by assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the applicant will expend in carrying out its function as a school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, or podiatry, as the case may be, during the fiscal year for which such grant is sought, an amount of funds (other than funds for construction, as determined by the Secretary) from non-Federal sources which is at least as great as the average amount of funds expended by such applicant for such purpose (excluding expenditures of a nonrecurring nature) in the three fiscal years immediately preceding the fiscal year for which such grant is sought. The Secretary may, after consultation with the Xational Advisory Council on Health Professions Education, waive the requirement of the preceding sentence with respect to any school if he determines application of such requirement to such school would be inconsistent with the purposes of this section. " H E A L T H MANPOWER EDUCATION I N I T I A T IV E AWARDS

"SEC. 774. (a)(1) For the purpose of improving the distribution, supply, quality, utilization, and efficiency of health personnel and the health services delivery system, the Secretary may make grants to public or nonprofit priA^ate health or educational entities, and may enter into contracts with public or private health or educational entities, for l)rojects— " (A) to encourage the establishment or maintenance of programs to alleviate shortages of health personnel in areas designated by the Secretary through training or retraining such personnel in facilities located in such areas or to otherwise im-

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