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"(b) A grant under this section may be made only if 6 the application therefor is recommended for approval by 7 the Board and is approved by the Surgeon.General upon his 8 determination that

"(1) the application contains or is supported by reasonable assurances that (A) for not less than ten years after completion of construction, the facility will be used as a medical library facility, (B) subject to

subsection (c), sufficient funds will be available to meet

the non-Federal share of the cost of constructing the facility, and (C) sufficient funds will be available, when construction is completed, for effective use of the facility for the purpose for which it is being constructed;

"(2) the proposed construction is necessary to meet the demonstrated needs for additional or improved medi

cal library facilities in the community or area in which

the proposed construction is to take place;

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be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing on similar construction in the locality as determined by the Secretary of Labor in accordance with the Davis-Bacon Act, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a-276a5). The Secretary of Labor shall have, with respect to the labor standards specified in this paragraph, the authority and functions set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of 1950 (15 F.R. 3176; 64 Stat. 1267), and section 2 of

the Act of June 13, 1934, as amended (40 U.S.C. 276c).

"(c) Within such aggregate monetary limit as the Sur12 geon General may prescribe, after consultation with the 13 Board, applications which (solely by reason of the inability 14 of the applicants to give the assurance required by clause (B) of subsection (b) (1)) fail to meet the requirements 16 for approval set forth in subsection (b) may be approved 17 upon condition that the applicants give the assurance required 18 by such clause (B) within a reasonable time and upon such 19 other reasonable terms and conditions as he may determine 20 after consultation with the Board.

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except that in no event may such amount exceed 75 per 7 centum of the necessary cost of the construction of such 8 facility as determined by him.

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grant as determined under subsection (e), and shall pay

such amount, in advance or by way of reimbursement, and 14 in such installments consistent with construction progress, as

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ury. The Surgeon General's reservation of any amount under this subsection may be amended by him, either upon

approval of an amendment of the application or upon re

vision of the estimated cost of construction of the facility.

"(g) In determining the amount of any grant under

this section, there shall be excluded from the cost of con

struction an amount equal to the sum of (1) the amount

of any other Federal grant which the applicant has obtained,

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1 which is to be financed in part by grants authorized under 2 this section, and (2) the amount of any non-Federal funds 3 required to be expended as a condition of such other Federal

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"(2) the facility shall cease to be used for medical library purposes, unless the Surgeon General determines, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him after consultation with the Board, that there is good cause for releasing the applicant or other owner from the obligation to do so,

15 the United States shall be entitled to recover from the ap16 plicant or other owner of the facility the amount bearing 17 the same ratio to the then value (as determined by agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States 19 District Court for the district in which such facility is situ20 ated) of the facility, as the amount of the Federal participa21 tion bore to the cost of construction of such facility.

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1 ending June 30, 1966, and ending with the fiscal year 2 ending June 30, 1970, such sums, not to exceed $10,000,3 000 for any fiscal year, as may be necessary.

4 "GRANTS FOR TRAINING IN MEDICAL LIBRARY SCIENCES

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to carry out the purposes of section 390 (b) (2), there are 7 hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year,

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sums, not to exceed $1,000,000 for any fiscal year, as may 11 be necessary. Sums made available under this section shall 12 be utilized by the Surgeon General in making grants—

"(1) to individuals to enable them to accept traineeships and fellowships leading to post baccalaureate academic degrees in the field of medical library science, in related fields pertaining to sciences related to health, or in the field of the communication of in

formation;

"(2) to individuals who are librarians or specialists in information on sciences relating to health, to enable

them to undergo intensive training or retraining so as

to attain greater competence in their occupations (in

cluding competence in the fields of automatic data processing and retrieval);

"(3) to assist appropriate public and private non