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PUBLIC LAW 92-318-JUNE 23, 1972
" (b) If. within twenty years after completion of construction of an academic facility which has been constructed in part with a grant or grants under part A or B of this title— " (1) the applicant (or its successor in title or possession) ceases or fails to be a public or nonprofit institution, or •'(2) the facility ceases to be used as an academic facility, or the facility is used as a facility excluded from the term 'academic facility", unless the Secretary determines that there is good cause for releasing the institution from its obligation, the United States shall be entitled to recover from such applicant (or successor) an amount which bears to the then value of the facility (or so much thereof as constituted an approved project or projects) the same ratio as the amount of such Federal grant or grants bore to the development cost of the facility financed with the aid of such grant or grants. Such value shall be determined by agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States district court for the district in which such facility is situated. "(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b), no facility constructed with assistance under this title shall ever be used for religious worship or a sectarian activity or for a school or department of divinity.
Prohibition.
"DEFINITIONS
"SEC. 782. The following definitions apply to terms used in this title: "(1)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, the term 'academic facilities' means structures suitable for use as classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and related facilities necessary or appropriate for instruction of students, or for research, or for administration of the educational or research programs, of an institution of higher education, and maintenance, storage, or utility facilities essential to operation of the foregoing facilities. For purposes of parts A, C, and D, such term includes infirmaries or other facilities designed to provide primarily for outpatient care of student and instructional personnel. Plans for such facilities shall be in compliance with such standards as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe or approve in order to insure that facilities constructed with the use of Federal funds under this title shall be, to the extent appropriate in view of the uses to be made of the facilities, accessible to and usable by handicapped persons. " (B) The term "academic facilities' shall not include (i) any facility intended primarily for e_vents for which admission is to be charged to the general public, or (ii) any gymnasium or other facility specially designed for athletic or recreational activities, other than for an academic course in physical education or where the Commissioner finds that the physical integration of such facilities with other academic facilities included under this title is required to carry out the objectives of this title, or (iii) any facility used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship, or (iv) any facility wiich (although not a facility described in the preceding clause) is used or to be used primarily in connection with any part of the program of a school or department of divinity, or (v) any facility used or to be used by a school of medicine, school of dentistry, school of osteopathy, school of pharmacy, school of optometry, school of podiatry, or school of public health as these terms are defined in section 724 of the Public Health Service Act, or a school of nursing as defined in section 843 of that Act.
42 USC 293d. 42 USC 298b.
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