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 93 STAT. 630 42 USC 300/-1, 300m-l, 300m-2, 300m-3, 300n.

42 USC 300^5 note. Ante, p. 598. 42 USC 300/-5.

42 USC 300n-6 note.

42 USC 300m-2.

PUBLIC LAW 96-79—OCT. 4, 1979 the amendments to sections 1512, 1522, 1523, 1524, and 1531 of the Public Health Service Act, and (3) health systems agencies, State health planning and development agencies, and Statewide Health Coordinating Councils may act in accordance with the changes in their functions made by the amendments to sections 1513, 1522, 1523, 1524, and 1532 of the Public Health Service Act. (b)(1) Except as provided in section 1516(c)(l)(C)(i) of the Public Health Service Act as amended by section 106, the amendments made by section 106 shall apply with respect to grants made under section 1516 of the Public Health Service Act after the date of the enactment of this Act from appropriations under an appropriation Act enacted for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980. (2) The amendments made by sections 116(d), 116(e), 117, and 126 shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act, except that if the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines that any amendment made by any such section will require a State to change its laws before the State health planning and development agency designated for such State may perform its functions under section 1523(a)(4)(B) of the Public Health Service Act, such amendment shall take effect in such State— (A) if the legislature of the State is in a regular session on the date of the enactment of the Health Planning and Resources Development Amendments of 1979 and the legislature will be in session for at least twelve months from such date, twelve months from such date, or (B) if the legislature of the State is in session on such date of enactment but twelve months do not remain in such session after such date or if the legislature of the State is not in session on such date, twelve months after the beginning of the first regular session of the legislature beginning after such date. TITLE II—REVISION OF AUTHORITY FOR HEALTH RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT REVISION AND EXTENSION OF ASSISTANCE

Repeal.

42 USC 300p-300p-3. Post, p. 632, 635. 42 USC 300q. Loans to public or nonprofit entities. 42 USC 300q-2.

Guarantees.

SEC. 201. (a) Part B of title XVI is repealed. (b)(1) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 1620 are amended to read as follows: "(a)(1) The Secretary, during the period ending September 30, 1982, may, in accordance with this part, make loans from the fund established under section 1622(d) to any public or nonprofit private entity for projects for— "(A) the discontinuance of unneeded hospital services or facilities, "(B) the conversion of unneeded hospital services and facilities to needed health services and medical facilities, including outpatient medical facilities and facilities for long-term care; "(C) the renovation and modernization of medical facilities, particularly projects for the prevention or elimination of safety hazards, projects to avoid noncompliance with licensure or accreditation standards, or projects to replace obsolete facilities; "(D) the construction of new outpatient medical facilities; and "(E) the construction of new inpatient medical facilities in areas which have experienced (as determined by the Secretary) recent rapid population growth. "(2)(A) The Secretary, during the period ending September 30, 1982, may, in accordance with this part, guarantee to—

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