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PUBLIC LAW 92-157-NOV. 18, 1971

prove the distribution of health personnel by area or by specialty group; " (B) to provide training programs leading to more efficient utilization of health personnel; " (C) to initiate new types and patterns or improve existing patterns of training, retraining, continuing education, and advanced training of health personnel, including teachers, administrators, specialists, and paraprofessionals (particularly physicians' assistants, dental therapists, and pediatric nurse practitioners); " (D) to encourage new or more effective approaches to the organization and delivery of health services through training individuals in the use of the team approach to delivery of health services and otherwise; or " (E) to assist State, local, or other regional arrangements among schools and related organizations and institutions to carry out the purpose of this subsection. "(2) Grants and contracts may also be made by the Secretary under this section for (A) the discovery, collection, development or confirmation of information for, (B) the planning development, demonstration, establishment, or maintenance of, or (C) the alteration or renovation of existing facilities for, any of the projects described in paragraph (1) of this subsection. (3) Contracts may be entered into under this subsection without regard to sections 3648 and 3709 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529;41 U.S.C.5). " (b) The Secretary may also make grants to public or nonprofit private health or educational entities to assist in meeting the costs of special projects to— "(1) establish or operate projects designed to identify, and increase admissions to and enrollment in schools of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, public health, or other health training of, individuals whose background and interests make it reasonable to assume that they will engage in the practice of their health profession in rural or other areas having a severe shortage of personnel in such health profession; or "(2)(A) identify individuals with a potential for education or training in the health professions (including veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States with training or experience in the health field) who due to socioeconomic factors are financially or otherwise disadvantaged and encouraging and assisting them (i) to enroll in a school of medicine, dentistrj^, osteopathy, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, public health, or other health training; or (ii) if they are not qualified to enroll in such a school, to undertake such postsecondary education or training as may be required to qualify them to enroll in such a school; " (B) publicize existing sources of financial aid available to persons enrolled in any such school or who are undertaking training necessary to qualify them to enroll in any such school; or " (C) estalDlish such programs as the Secretary determines will enhance and facilitate the enrollment, pursuit, and completion of study by individuals referred to in clause (A) in schools referred to in clause (A)(i). Of the sums appropriated under subsection (e) for any fiscal year, not more than 15 per centum of such sums, but in no event less than $5,000,000, shall be used to make grants under this subsection in such fiscal year. Of the sums available for grants under this subsection for any fiscal year, not more than one-half of such sums may be used for

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