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agency or agencies and, if such agency or agencies have

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"AMOUNT OF CONSTRUCTION GRANT; PAYMENTS

5 "SEC. 803. (a) The amount of any grant for a con6 struction project under this part shall be such amount as the 7 Surgeon General determines to be appropriate after obtain8 ing the advice of the Council; except that (A) in the case 9 of a grant for a project for a new school, and in the case of

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a grant for a project for new facilities for an existing school 11 in cases where such facilities are of particular importance in 12 providing a major expansion of training capacity, as deter13 mined in accordance with regulations, such amount may not 14 exceed 66 per centum of the necessary cost of construction, as determined by the Surgeon General, of such project; 16 and (B) in the case of any other grant, such amount may 17 not exceed 50 per centum of the necessary cost of construc18 tion, as so determined, of the project with respect to which 19 the grant is made.

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"(b) Upon approval of any application for a grant for a construction project under this part, the Surgeon General 22 shall reserve, from any appropriation available therefor, the

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reimbursement, and in such installments consistent with con

3 struction progress, as the Surgeon General may determine. 4 The Surgeon General's reservation of any amount under 5 this section may be amended by him, either upon approval 6 of an amendment of the application or upon revision of the 7 estimated cost of construction of the facility.

8 "(c) In determining the amount of any such grant under this part, there shall be excluded from the cost of 10 construction an amount equal to the sum of (1) the amount 11 of any other Federal grant which the applicant has obtained, 12 or is assured of obtaining, with respect to the construction 13 which is to be financed in part by grants authorized under 14 this part, and (2) the amount of any non-Federal funds 15 required to be expended as a condition of such other Federal 16 grant.

"RECAPTURE OF PAYMENTS

"SEC. 804. If, within twenty years after completion of any construction for which funds have been paid under this

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"(a) the applicant or other owner of the facility shall cease to be a public or nonprofit private school,

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"(b) the facility shall cease to be used for the train

ing purposes for which it was constructed (unless the

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cant or other owner from the obligation to do so), or

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"(c) the facility is used for sectarian instruction or

as a place for religious worship,

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7 cant or other owner of the facility the amount bearing the

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same ratio to the then value (as determined by agreement 9 of the parties or by action brought in the United States dis10 trict court for the district in which such facility is situated) 11 of the facility, as the amount of the Federal participation 12 bore to the cost of construction of such facility.

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"IMPROVEMENT IN NURSE TRAINING

"SEC. 805. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated

15 for grants to public and nonprofit private collegiate and asso16 ciate degree schools of nursing to assist them in meeting 17 the additional costs of projects of limited duration which will 18 strengthen, improve, or expand their programs to teach and 19 train nurses, $2,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 20 1965, $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, 21 $4,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and 22 each of the next two fiscal years, and such sums for each of 23 the next four fiscal years as may be necessary to complete 24 projects for which a grant was made under this section from

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"(b) In determining whether to approve applications 4 for grants described in subsection (a), the order in which

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to approve such applications, and the amount of the grants, 6 the Surgeon General shall give consideration to the extent

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to which such projects will contribute to general improve8 ment in the teaching and training of nurses of the kind 9 involved, the extent to which they will aid in attaining a 10 wider geographical distribution throughout the United States 11 of high quality schools of the type involved, and the relative 12 need in the area in which the school is situated and surrounding areas for nurses of the type trained in such school. "(c) No grant may be made under subsection (a) of 15 this section for any project for any period after grants have 16 been made with respect to such project for five fiscal years. 17 "PARTIAL REIMBURSEMENT TO DIPLOMA SCHOOLS FOR

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COSTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THIS TITLE

"SEC. 806. (a) In order to prevent further attrition and

promote the development of public and nonprofit private 21 diploma schools of nursing, there are hereby authorized to 22 be appropriated $4,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June

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2 enrollment in such schools can be reasonably attributed to 3 the provisions of this title.

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or nonprofit private diploma school of nursing for each fiscal

year in the five-year period beginning on July 1, 1964, and 8 ending June 30, 1969, an amount equal to the product of 9 $250 and the sum of the number of federally-sponsored 10 students in such school during such year and the number by 11 which the full-time enrollment in such school during such 12 year exceeds the average of the full-time enrollments in such 13 school during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1962, June 30, 14 1963, and June 30, 1964, except that no such diploma school 15 of nursing shall for any fiscal year receive an amount in excess of the product of $100 and the full-time enrollment in 17 such school during such year. If the amounts appropriated 18 pursuant to subsection (a) for any fiscal year are inade19 quate to make the grants provided for in the preceding sen20 tence, the amount of the grant to each such diploma school of 21 nursing shall be reduced so that it shall bear the same ratio to 22 such amounts appropriated for such year as the amount such 23 school would be entitled to under the preceding sentence bears

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