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[78 STAT. 455]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1964
[78 STAT. 455]

78 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 88-443-AUG. 18, 1964

requiring action pursuant to section 607, payment may, after he has given the State agency notice of opportunity for hearing pursuant to such section, be withheld, in whole or in part, i^ending corrective action or action based on such hearing, and (3) the total of payments under this subsection with respect to such project may not exceed an amount equal to the Federal share of the cost of construction of such project. " (b) I n case an amendment to an approved application is approved as provided in section 605 or the estimated cost of a project is revised upward, any additional payment with respect thereto may be made from the applicable allotment of the State for the fiscal year in which such amendment or revision is approved. "(c)(1) At the request of any State, a portion of any allotment or allotments of such State under this part shall be available to pay onehalf (or such smaller share as the State may request) of the expenditures found necessary by the Surgeon General for the proper and efficient administration during such year of the State plan approved under this part; except that not more than 2 per centum of the total of the allotments of such State for a year, or $50,000, whichever is less, shall be available for such purpose for such year. Payments of amounts due under this paragraph may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and m such installments, as the Svirgeon General may determine. "(2) Any amount paid under paragraph (1) to any State for any fiscal year shall be paid on condition that there shall be expended from State sources for such year for administration of the State plan approved under this part not less than the total amount expended for such purposes from such sources during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964. "WITHHOLDING OF PAYMENTS

"SEC. 607. Whenever the Surgeon General, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency designated as provided in section 604(a)(1), finds— " (a) that the State agency is not complying substantially with the provisions required by section 604 to be included in its State plan; or " (b) that any assurance required to be given in an application filed under section 605 is not being or cannot be carried out; or "(c) that there is a substantial failure to carry out plans and specifications approved by the Surgeon General under section 605; or " (d) that adequate State funds are not being provided annually for the direct administration of the State plan, the Surgeon General may forthwith notify the State agency that— "(e) no further payments will be made to the State under this part, or " (f) no further payments will be made from the allotments of such State from appropriations under any one or more subparagraphs or paragraphs of section 601, or for any project or projects, designated by the Surgeon General as being affected by the action or inaction referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section, as the Surgeon General may determine to be appropriate under the circumstances; and, except with regard to any project for which the application has already been.approved and which is not directly affected, further payments may be withheld, in whole or in part, until there is no longer any failure to comply (or carry out the assurance or plans and specifications or provide adequate State funds, as the case 31-667 0-65—32

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