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PUBLIC LAW 88-581-SEPT. 4, 1964
ment or rehabilitation of existing facilities for such schools, $10,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and $15,000,000 for each of the next three fiscal years. There are also authorized to be appropriated for each of such fiscal years ending after June 30, 1966, for grants specified in clause (1) or (2) of the preceding sentence, the amount by which the total of the sums authorized to be appropriated under such clause for previous years exceeds the aggregate of the appropriations thereunder for such years. "(b) Sums appropriated pursuant to clause (1) or (2) of subsection (a) for a fiscal year shall remain available for grants specified in such clause until the close of the next fiscal year. "APPROVAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION GRANTS
"SEC. 802. (a) No application for a grant for a construction project under this part may be approved unless it is submitted to the Surgeon General prior to July 1, 1968. "(b) A grant for a construction project under this part may be made only if the application therefor is approved by the Surgeon General upon his determination that— "(1) the applicant is a public or nonprofit private school of nursing providing an accredited program of nursing education; "(2) the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that (A) for not less than twenty years after completion of construction, the facility will be used for the purposes of the training for which it is to be constructed, and will not be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship, (B) sufficient funds will be available to meet the non-Federal share of the cost of constructing the facility, (C) sufficient funds will be available, when construction is completed, for effective use of the facility for the training for which it is being constructed, and (D) in the case of an application for a grant for construction to expand the training capacity of a school of nursing, the first-year enrollment at such school during the first full school year after the completion of the construction and for each of the nine years thereafter will exceed the highest first-year enrollment at such school for any of the five full school years preceding the year in which the application is made by at least 5 per centum of such highest first-year enrollment, or by five students, whichever is greater; "(3)(A) in the case of an application for a grant for construction of a new facility, such application is for aid in the construction of a new school of nursing, or construction which will expand the training capacity of an existing school of nursing, or (B) in the case of an application for a grant for replacement or rehabilitation of existing facilities, such application is for aid in construction which will replace or rehabilitate facilities
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