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PUBLIC LAW 92-157-NOV. 18, 1971

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Appropriation.

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(b) Information and listing services performed by the Clearinghouse shall be provided free of charge to all interested health professionals and to all communities and groups within the areas determined by the Secretary under section 741(f) to have a shortage of and need for health professionals. (^^^ There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to establish, operate, and maintain the Clearinghouse created by subsection (a). A S S I G N M E N T OF P U B L I C H E A L T H SERVICE P H Y S I C I A N S TO CERTAIN COUNTIES

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SEC. 203. Section 329(a) of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "The Secretary shall use his best efforts to provide, to each county certified by him to be without the services of a physician physically residing within such county, at least one physician in the Public Health Service, except for counties so sparsely populated as not to require such a physician. Such physicians shall be assigned so that each such county shall have a residing physician within one year from the date of enactment of this sentence. Within one year from the date of enactment of this sentence the Secretary shall report to the Congress with respect to his implementation of this section." STUDY OF FEDERAL H E A L T H F A C I L I T I E S CONSTRUCTION

Report to Congress.

COSTS

SEC. 204. The Comptroller General shall conduct a study of health facilities construction costs. Such study shall include consideration of the feasibility of reducing the cost of constructing health facilities constructed with assistance provided under the Public Health Service Act, particularly with respect to innovative techniques, new materials, and the possible waiver of unnecessarily costly Federal standards. The study shall be completed, and a report shall be submitted to the Congress, within one year after the date of enactment of this Act. STUDY OF COSTS OF EDUCATING STUDENTS OF THE VARIOUS H E A L T H PROFESSIONS

Reports.

SEC. 205. (a)(1) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter in this section referred to as "Secretary") shall arrange for the conduct of a study or studies to determine the national average annual per student educational cost of schools of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, veterinary medicine, and nursing in providing education programs which lead, respectively, to a degree of doctor of medicine, a degree of doctor of osteopathy, a degree of doctor of dentistry (or an equivalent degree), a degree of doctor of optometry (or an equivalent degree), a degree of bachelor of science in pharmacy (or an equivalent degree), a degree of doctor of podiatry (or an equivalent degree), a degree of doctor of veterinary medicine (or an equivalent degree), a certificate of degree or other appropriate evidence of completion of a course of training for physicians assistants or dental therapists, or a certificate or degree certifying completion of nurse training. ^2) Such studies shall be completed and an interim report thereon submitted not later than March 30, 1973, and a final report not later than January 1, 1974, to the Secretary, the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate, and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives. (3) Such studies shall develop methodologies for ascertaining the national average annual per student educational costs and shall, on

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