Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 89.djvu/419

 PUBLIC LAW 94-63—JULY 29, 1975

89 STAT. 359

"(b)(1) No grant may be made under subsection (a) unless an Application, application therefor is submitted to and approved by the Secretary. The Secretary may not approve or disapprove such an application except after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Nurse Training. "(2) An application for a grant under subsection (a) must contain or be supported by assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the applicant will expend in carrying out its functions as a school of nursing, 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 National Advisory Council on Nurse Training, waive the requirement of the preceding sentence with respect to any school if he determines that the application of such requirement to such school would be inconsistent with the purposes of subsection (a). "(c) For payments under grants under this section there are author- Appropriation ized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, $5,000,000 for authorization. fiscal year 1977, and $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1978.". TECHNICAL AMENDMENT

SEC. 922. Sections 805 and 808 (as in effect on June 30, 1975) are Repeals, repealed. 42 USC 296d, Subpart 5—Special Project Assistance ^' SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

SEC. 931. (a) Title VIII is amended by inserting after subpart III of part A (as added by section 921 of this title) the following: ^f^te, p. 358.. "Subpart IV—Special Projects a SPECIAL PROJECT GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

"SEC. 820. (a) The Secretary may make grants to public and non- 42 USC 296k. profit private schools of nursing and other public or nonprofit private entities, and enter into contracts with any public or private entity, to meet the costs of special projects to— "(1) assist in— "(A) mergers between hospital training programs or between hospital training programs and academic institutions, or "(B) other cooperative arrangements among hospitals and academic institutions, leading to the establishment of nurse training programs; "(2)(A) plan, develop, or establish new nurse training programs or programs of research in nursing education, or " (B) significantly improve curricula of schools of nursing (including curriculums of pediatric nursing and geriatric nursing) or modify existing programs of nursing education; "(3) increase nursing education opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, as determined in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary, by—

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