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42 U.S.C. 800c-8

42 U.S.C. 300c-4

(b) (1) In making any grant or contract under this title, the Secretary shall (A) take into account the number of persons to be served by the program supported by such grant or contract and the extent to which rapid and effective use will be made of funds under the grant or contract; and (B) give priority to programs operating in areas which the Secretary determines have the greatest number of persons in need of the services provided under such programs.

(2) The Secretary may make a grant under section 1111(a) (1) for a screening, treatment, and counseling program when he determines that the screening provided by such program will be done through an effective and inexpensive Cooley's anemia screening test.

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE FACILITIES

SEC. 1114. The Secretary shall establish a program within the Public Health Service to provide for voluntary Cooley's anemia screening, counseling, and treatment. Such program shall utilize effective and inexpensive Cooley's anemia screening tests, shall be made available through facilities of the Public Health Service to any person requesting screening, counseling, or treatment, and shall include appropriate publicity of the availability and voluntary nature of such programs.

REPORTS

SEC. 1115. (a) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress on or before April 1 of each year a comprehensive report on the administration of this part.

(b) The report required by this section shall contain such recommendations for additional legislation as the Secretary deems necessary.

MENTAL RETARDATION FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1963

TITLE I-DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION ACT

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MENTAL RETARDATION FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS CONSTRUCTION ACT OF 1963

[Public Law 88-164, Approved Oct. 31, 1963]

AN ACT TO provide assistance in combating mental retardation through grants for construction of research centers and grants for facilities for the mentally retarded and assistance in improving mental health through grants for construction of community mental health centers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963".

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42 U.S.C. 2661

TITLE I-SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR
THE MENTALLY RETARDED AND PERSONS
WITH OTHER DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILI-
TIES

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 100. This title may be cited as the "Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act".

PART A-GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF CENTERS FOR
RESEARCH ON MENTAL RETARDATION AND RELATED AS-
PECTS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

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PART B-CONSTRUCTION, DEMONSTRATION, AND TRAIN-
ING GRANTS FOR UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED FACILITIES
FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 121. (a) For the purpose of assisting in the construction (and the planning for the construction) of facilities which will aid in demonstrating provision of specialized services for the diagnosis and treatment, education, training, or care of persons with developmental disabilities or in the interdisciplinary training of physicians and other specialized personnel needed for research, diagnosis and treatment, education, training, or care of persons with developmental disabilities, including research incidental or related to any of the foregoing activities, there are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1964, $7,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1965, $10,000,000 each for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and the fiscal year ending June 30, 1968, and $20,000,000 for each of the next five fiscal years through the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973. Except as provided in subsection (b), the sums so appropriated shall be used for project grants for construction of public and other nonprofit facilities for persons with developmental disabilities which are associated with a college or university.

1 This part added amended title VII, P.H.S. Act, to add a part D.

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