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PUBLIC LAW 89-751-NOV. 3, 1966
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of the applicant's plan in carrying out the purposes of such grants, and in contributing to an equitable geographical distribution of training centers offering high-quality training of allied health professions personnel. " T R A T N E E S H I P S FOR A D V A N C E D T R A I N I N G o r ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS
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"SEC. 793. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated $1,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967; $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; and $3,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969; to cover the cost of traineeships for the training of allied health professions personnel to teach health services technicians or in any of the allied health professions, to serve in any of such professions in administrative or supervisory capacities, or to serve in allied health professions specialties determined by the Surgeon General to require advanced training. " (b) Traineeships under this section shall be awarded by the Surgeon General through grants to public or nonprofit private training centers for allied health professions. "(c) Payments to centers under this section may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, and at such intervals and on such conditions, as the Surgeon General finds necessary. Such payments may be used only for traineeships and shall be limited to such amounts as the Surgeon General finds necessary to cover the costs of tuition and fees, and a stipend and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses) for the trainees. "DEVELOPMENT OF NEW METHODS
"SEC. 794. There are authorized to be appropriated $750,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967; $2,250,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968; and $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969; for grants to public or nonprofit private training centers for allied health professions for projects to develop, demonstrate, or evaluate curriculums for the training of new types of health technologists. "DEFINITIONS
"SEC. 795. For purposes of this part— "(1) The term 'training center for allied health professions' means a junior college, college, or university— " (A) which provides, or can provide, programs of education leading to a baccalaureate or associate degree or to the equivalent of either or to a higher degree in the medical technology, optometric technology, dental hygiene, or any of such other of the allied health professions curriculums as are specified by regulations, or which, if in a junior college provides a program (i) leading to an associate or an equivalent degree, (ii) of education in medical technology, optometric technology, dental hygiene, or any of such other of the allied health technical or professional curriculums as are specified by regula;tion, and (iii) acceptable for full credit toward a baccalaureate or equivalent degree m the allied health professions or designed to prepare the student to work as a technician in a health occupation specified by regulations of the Surgeon General, " (B) which provides training for not less than a total of twenty persons in such curriculums,
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