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PUBLIC LAW 93-641-JAN. 4, 1975

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approved State medical facilities plan, and (iv) contains the assurances required by subsection (b); and " (B) the plans and specifications for the project meet the requirements of the regulations prescribed pursuant to section 1602(a). " (d) No application (other than an application for a grant under section 1625) shall be disapproved until the Secretary has afforded the State Agency an opportunity for a hearing. "(e) Amendment of any approved application shall be subject to approval in the same manner as an original application. "(f) Each application shall be reviewed by health systems agencies in accordance with section 1513(e). "PART B—ALLOTMENTS "ALLOTMENTS

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"SEC. 1610. (a) For each fiscal year, the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations, make from sums appropriated for such fiscal year under section 1513 allotments among the States on the basis of the population, the financial need, and need for medical facilities projects described in section 1601 of the respective States. The population of the States shall be determined on the basis of the latest figures certified by the Secretary of Commerce. " (b)(1) The allotment to any State (other than Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) for any fiscal year shall be not less than $1,000,000; and the allotment to Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands for any fiscal year shall be not less than $500,000 each. "(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if the amount appropriated under section 1613 for any fiscal year is less than the amount required to provide allotments in accordance with paragraph (1), the amount of the allotment to any State for such fiscal year shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount prescribed for such State by paragraph (1) as the amount appropriated for such fiscal year bears to the amount of appropriations needed to make allotments to all the States in accordance with paragraph (1). "(c) Any amount allotted to a State for a fiscal year under subsection (a) and remaining unobligated at the end of such year shall remain available to such State, for the purpose for which made, for the next two fiscal years (and for such years only), in addition to the amounts allotted to such State for such purposes for such next two fiscal years; except that any such amount which is unobligated at the end of the first of such next two years and which the Secretary determines will remain unobligated at the close of the second of such next two years may be reallotted by the Secretary, to be available for the purposes for which made until the close of the second of such next two years, to other States which have need therefor, on such basis as the Secretary deems equitable and consistent with the purposes of this title. Any amount so reallotted to a State shall be in addition to the amounts allotted and available to the State for the same period. "PAYMENTS FROM ALLOTMENTS

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"SEC. 1611. (a) If with respect to any medical facility project approved under section 1604 the State Agency certifies (upon the basis of inspection by it) to the Secretary that, in accordance with approved plans and specifications, work has been performed upon

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