436
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p. 437.
y/statf^iosy!' 42 USC 293'a. 77 Stat. 170.
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expand its training capacity and if under paragraph (2) of section 770(f) the school is not required to meet in such fiscal year the enrollment increase prescribed by such section because of limitations of physical facilities, the Secretary, after consultation with the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education, may waive (in whole or in part) the enrollment increase prescribed by clause (D) of the preceding sentence if the application for such construction project contains or is supported by reasonable assurances satisfactory to the Secretary that the number of first-year students enrolled at such school during the first full school year after the completion of such project and for each of the next nine school years thereafter will be not less than the number of first-year students that such school would be required to enroll under section 770(f) (without regard to paragraph (2) thereof) for a grant under section 770(a). " (^) Section 721(c)(2) is further amended by striking out "section 771(b) " and inserting in lieu thereof "section 770(f) ". (i) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Section 728 (42 U.S.C. 293h) is amended to read as follows: "TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
"SEC. 728. The Secretary may provide technical assistance (1) to applicants under this part and other public or nonprofit private schools, agencies, organizations, and institutions, and combinations thereof, in designing and planning the construction of any facility for which financial assistance may be provided under this part, and (2) to State or interstate planning agencies established to plan programs for relieving shortages of training capacity for health personnel." (j) TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS.—
42 USC 2910. 82 Stat. 774.
(1) Section 723(a) (42 U.S.C. 293c(a)) is amended by striking out "625" and inserting in lieu thereof "605". (2) Section 721(c)(3) (42 U.S.C. 293a(c)(3)) is amended to read as follows: "(3)(A) in the case of an application for a grant to assist in the construction of new teaching facilities, such application is for aid in the construction of a new school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, or public health, or construction which will expand the training capacity of an existing school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, or public health, or (B) in the case of an application for a grant to assist in the replacement or rehabilitation of existing teaching facilities, such application is for aid in construction which will replace or rehabilitate facilities of, or used by, an existing school of medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine, or public health, which facilities either are so obsolete as to require the school to curtail substantially either its enrollment or the quality of the training provided (and, for purposes of this part, expansion or curtailment of capacity for continuing education shall also be considered expansion and curtailment, respectively, of training capacity) or are required to meet an increase in student enrollment;" (3) Section 721(c)(6) (42 U.S.C. 293a (c)(6)) is amended by striking out "which is a hospital or diagnostic or treatment center, as defined in section 631" and inserting in lieu thereof "which -g ^ hospital or outpatient facility, as defined in section 645". ^ (4) Section 722(d) (42 U.S.C. 293b(d)) is amended by striking out "or for medical library purposes (within the meaning of
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