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PUBLIC LAW 92-585-OCT. 27, 1972
[86 STAT.
programs shall include the wide dissemination of written information on the Corps and visits to such schools by personnel of the Corpii." 5o fi^cA'of^K" (^) Section 329(f) of such Act is amended (1) by striking out 42 u Tico oc^K s e 254b. An "Service" in paragraphs (1) and (3) and inserting in lieu thereof "Corps", and (2) by striking out "to select commissioned oflcicers of the Service and other personnel" in paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof "to select personnel of the Corps". (f) Subsection (g) of section 329 of such Act is redesignated as subsection (h) and the following new subsection is inserted after subsection (f) of such section: Report to Con" (g) The Secretary shall report to Congress no later than May 15 gress. of each year— "(1) the number of areas designated under subsection (b) in the calendar year preceding the year in which the report is made as having critical health manpower shortages and the number of areas which the Secretary estimates will be so designated in the calendar year in which the report is made; "(2) the number and types of Corps personnel assigned in such preceding calendar year to areas designated under subsection (b), the number and types of additional Corps personnel which the Secretary estimates will be assigned to such areas in the calendar year in which the report is submitted, and the need (if any) for additional personnel for the Corps; and "(3) the number of applications filed in such preceding calendar year for assignment of Corps personnel under this section and the action taken on each such application." Appropriation. (g) Subsection (h) of section 329 of such Act (as so redesignated by subsection (f) of this section) is amended by striking out "and" after "1972;" and by inserting immediately before the period at the end the following "; and $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974". (h) Section 329 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "State." <'(i) For purposes of this section, the term 'State' includes Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands." fa^'iitie^s^'^requireSEC. 3. (a) The Secretary may not close or transfer control of a ments. ' hospltal or other health care delivery facility of the Public Health Service unless— (1) he transmits to each House of Congress, on the same day and while each House is in session, a detailed explanation (meeting the requirements of subsection (b)) for the proposed closing or transfer, and (2) a period of ninety calendar days of continuous session of Congress has elapsed after the date on which such explanation is transmitted. For purposes of paragraph (2), continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of Congress sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of the ninetyday period. (b) Each explanation submitted under subsection (a) for closing or transferring control of a hospital or other health care delivery -, > s; f»-i facility of the Public Health Service shall— ?.:..; (1) contain (A) assurances that persons entitled to treatment and care at the hospital or other facility proposed to be closed • or transferred and persons for whom care and treatment at such hospital or other facility is authorized will, after the proposed closing or transfer, continue to be provided equivalent care and treatment through such hospital or other facility or under a new
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