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 92 STAT. 1822

38 USC 2014.

Appropriation authorization.

38 USC 5071.

38 USC 5071, 5091, 5096.

Report to Congress and President. 38 USC 601 note.

Report.

PUBLIC LAW 95-520—OCT. 26, 1978 "(3) The number of such terminations since the last such report that were initiated by the department, agency, or instrumentality involved and the number of such terminations since the last such report that were initiated by the individual involved. "(4) A description of the education and training programs in which individuals appointed under such subsection are participating at the time of such report.-'. (3) Subsection (f) of such section is amended by inserting "subsection (a) of" after "as used in". SEC. 7. Section 5082 of title 38, United States Code, relating to authorizations of appropriations, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1979 to carry out the programs authorized tmder this chapter such sums as may be necessary (1) to make to institutions with which the Administrator has entered into agreements under subchapter I of this chapter supplemental grants for which the Administrator had, before May 1, 1978, approved applications from such institutions, and (2) to meet fully the commitments made by the Administrator before May 1, 1978, for grants and applications approved under authority of this subchapter and subchapters III and IV of this chapter, except that no funds appropriated under this subsection may be used for grants and applications approved under this subchapter and such subchapters III and IV until the full amounts for which applications had been so approved have been obligated under such subchapter I.". SEC. 8. (a) Not later than February 1, 1980, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall submit a report to the Congress and to the President on the furnishing by the Veterans' Administration of hospital care and medical services in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in the Virgin Islands. The Administrator shall inchide in such report— (1) a comprehensive assessment of the health-care needs of veterans in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in the Virgin Islands; (2) a detailed report on the hospital care and medical services furnished or to be furnished to such veterans during fiscal years 1975 through 1981, with information in such report shown with respect to the number of veterans treated or to be treated, the facilities at which such care and services are furnished or to be furnished, and the extent to which such care and services are furnished or are to be furnished for the treatment of veterans for service-connected disabilities of any degree and of veterans with service-connected disabilities rated at 50 per centum or more; and (3) recommendations as to how the health-care needs of such veterans can best be addressed within the existing authority of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs and what additional authority, if any, is necessary and desirable to meet such needs. (b) In making recommendations under subsection (a)(3), the Administrator shall take into consideration—• (1) the state of the economy in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in the Virgin Islands; (2) alternative sources of health-care services that would be available to veterans in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and in the Virgin Islands if the health-care services furnished by the Veterans' Administration for non-service-connected disabilities were substantially reduced;

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