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^^7^8 Stat. 909,

PUBLIC LAW 92-158-NOV. 18, 1971

[85 STAT.

at the end the following: "For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'buildings' includes interim facilities.", ^^) Section 843 (42 U.S.C. 298b) is amended by adding at the ©ud thereof the following new paragraph: "(j) The term 'interim facilities' means teaching facilities designed to provide teaching space on a short-term (less than ten years) basis while facilities of a more permanent nature are being planned and constructed." (3) Sections 802(b)(2)(A) and 804 (42 U.S.C. 296a (b)(2) (A), 296c) are each amended by inserting "(or in the case of interim facilities, within such shorter period as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe)" immediately after "twenty years". (e) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—

(1) Section 802(a) (42 U.S.C. 296a(a)) is amended to read as follows: " (a) The Secretary may from time to time set dates (not earlier than in the fiscal year preceding the year for which a grant is sought) by which applications for grants under this part for any fiscal year must be filed." (2) Section 802(b)(3)(B) (42 U.S.C. 296a (b)) is amended to read as follows: " (B) in the case of an application for a grant to assist in the replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities, such application is for aid in construction which will replace or rehabilitate facilities of, or used by, an existing school of nursing, which facilities either are so obsolete as to require the school to curtail substantially either its enrollment or the quality of the training provided or are required to meet an increase in student enrollment;". (f)

Post, p. 470.

ENROLLMENT INCREASE; WAIVER.—

(1) Effective in the case of grants made after the date of enactment of this Act, section 802(b)(2)(D) (42 U.S.C. 296a (b) (2)(D)) is amended by inserting immediately before the semicolon at the end thereof the following: ", and the requirements of this clause (D) shall be in addition to the requirements of section 8Qg (g) Qf ^j^jg ^p^^ where applicable". (2) Section 802(b) (42 U.S.C._296a (b)) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "If a school of nursing applies for a grant in a fiscal year for a construction project to expand its training capacity and if under paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of section 806 such school is not required to meet in such fiscal year the enrollment increase prescribed by such subsection because of limitations of physical facilities, the Secretary, after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training, may waive (in whole or in part) the enrollment increase prescribed by paragraph (2)(D) of this subsection if the application for such construction project contains or is supported by reasonable assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the number of first-year students enrolled at such school during the first full school year after the completion of such project and for each of the next nine school years thereafter will be not less than the number of first-year students that such school would be required to enroll under section 806(e) (without regard to paragraph (2) thereof) for a grant under section 806(a). "

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