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"(1) for grants to assist in the construction of new facilities for collegiate schools of nursing, or replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities for such schools, $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and $10,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal

years;

"(2) for grants to assist in the construction of new facilities for associate degree or diploma schools of nursing, or replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities for such schools, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and $15,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years.

20 There are also authorized to be appropriated for each of such 21 fiscal years ending after June 30, 1966, for grants specified 22 in clause (1) or (2) of the preceding sentence, the amount 23 by which the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated 24 under such clause for previous years exceeds the aggregate 25 of the appropriations thereunder for such years.

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1 "(b) Sums appropriated pursuant to clause (1) or (2) 2 of subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall remain available for 3 grants specified in such clause until the close of the next

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5 "APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION GRANTS 6 "SEC. 802. (a) No application for a grant for a con7 struction project under this part may be approved unless it 8 is submitted to the Surgeon General prior to July 1, 1968. "(b) A grant for a construction project under this part may be made only if the application therefor is approved by 11 the Surgeon General upon his determination that—

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"(1) the applicant is a public or nonprofit private 13 school of nursing providing an accredited program of

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"(2) the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that (A) for not less than twenty years after completion of construction, the facility will

be used for the purposes of the training for which it is 19 to be constructed, and will not be used for sectarian in

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struction or as a place for religious worship, (B) sufficient funds will be available to meet the non-Federal share of the cost of constructing the facility, (C)

sufficient funds will be available, when construction is

completed, for effective use of the facility for the training

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of an application for a grant for construction to expand the training capacity of a school of nursing, the first

year enrollment at such school during the first full school year after the completion of the construction and for each

of the nine years thereafter will exceed the highest firstyear enrollment at such school for any of the five full school years preceding the year in which the application is made by at least 5 per centum of such highest firstyear enrollment, or by five students, whichever is

greater;

“(3) (A) in the case of an application for a grant for construction of a new facility, such application is for aid in the construction of a new school of nursing, or construction which will expand the training capacity

of an existing school of nursing, or (B) in the case of an application for a grant for replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities, such application is

for aid in construction which will replace or rehabilitate facilities of an existing school of nursing which are so 20 obsolete as to require the school to curtail substantially

either its enrollment or the quality of the training pro

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"(4) the plans and specifications are in accordance with regulations relating to minimum standards of construction and equipment; and

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"(5) the application contains or is supported by adequate assurance that any laborer or mechanic employed by any contractor or subcontractor in the performance of work on the construction of the facility will be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a5). The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this paragraph, the authority and

functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 12 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 64 Stat. 1267), and section

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15 Before approving or disapproving an application for a con16 struction project under this part, the Surgeon General shall secure the advice of the National Advisory Council on Nurse 18 Training established by section 841 (hereinafter in this part 19 referred to as the 'council').

"(c) In considering applications for grants, the Council 21 and the Surgeon General shall take into account

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for such training (giving due consideration to popula

tion, relative unavailability of nurses of the kind to be trained by such school, and available resources in vari

ous areas of the Nation for training such nurses); or

"(B) in the case of a project for replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities of a school, the relative need for such replacement or rehabilitation to prevent curtailment of the school's enrollment or deterioration of

the quality of the training provided by the school, and the relative size of any such curtailment and its effect on the geographical distribution of opportunities for

training in the field of nursing involved (giving consideration to the factors mentioned above in paragraph (A)); and

“(2) in the case of an applicant in a State which has in existence a State or local area agency involved with planning for nurse training facilities, or which participates in a regional or other interstate agency involved with planning for nurse training facilities, the relationship of the application to the construction or

training program which is being developed by such