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[CITE: 38USC8213]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
CHAPTER 82--ASSISTANCE IN ESTABLISHING NEW STATE MEDICAL SCHOOLS; GRANTS 
 TO AFFILIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS; ASSISTANCE TO HEALTH MANPOWER TRAINING 
                              INSTITUTIONS
 
 SUBCHAPTER I--PILOT PROGRAM FOR ASSISTANCE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW 
                          STATE MEDICAL SCHOOLS
 
Sec. 8213. Pilot program assistance

    (a) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary may 
enter into an agreement to provide to any college or university which is 
primarily supported by the State in which it is located (hereinafter in 
this subchapter referred to as ``institution'') the following assistance 
to enable such institution to establish a new medical school:
        (1) The extension, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or 
    repair of buildings and structures (including, as part of a lease 
    made under paragraph (1), the provision of equipment) provided under 
    paragraph (1) to the extent necessary to make them suitable for use 
    as medical school facilities.
        (2) The making of grants to assist the institution to pay the 
    cost of the salaries of the faculty of such school during the 
    initial 12-month period of operation of the school and the next six 
    such 12-month periods, but payment under this paragraph may not 
    exceed an amount equal to--
            (A) 90 percent of the cost of faculty salaries during the 
        first 12-month period of operation,
            (B) 90 percent of such cost during the second such period,
            (C) 90 percent of such cost during the third such period,
            (D) 80 percent of such cost during the fourth such period,
            (E) 70 percent of such cost during the fifth such period,
            (F) 60 percent of such cost during the sixth such period, 
        and
            (G) 50 percent of such cost during the seventh and eighth 
        such periods.

    (b)(1) The Secretary may not enter into any agreement under 
subsection (a) of this section unless the Secretary finds, and the 
agreement includes satisfactory assurances, that--
        (A) there will be adequate State or other financial support for 
    the proposed school;
        (B) the overall plans for the school meet such professional and 
    other standards as the Secretary deems appropriate;
        (C) the school will maintain such arrangements with the 
    Department medical facility with which it is associated (including 
    but not limited to such arrangements as may be made under subchapter 
    IV of chapter 81 of this title) as will be mutually beneficial in 
    the carrying out of the mission of the medical facility and the 
    school; and
        (D) on the basis of consultation with the appropriate 
    accreditation body or bodies approved for such purpose by the 
    Secretary of Education, there is reasonable assurance that, with the 
    aid of an agreement under subsection (a) of this section, such 
    school will meet the accreditation standards of such body or bodies 
    within a reasonable time.

    (2) Any agreement entered into by the Secretary under this 
subchapter shall contain such terms and conditions (in addition to those 
imposed pursuant to section 8201(e) of this title and subsection (b)(1) 
of this section) as the Secretary deems necessary and appropriate to 
protect the interest of the United States.
    (c) If the Secretary, in accordance with such regulations as the 
Secretary shall prescribe, determines that any school established with 
assistance under this chapter--
        (1) is not accredited and fails to gain appropriate 
    accreditation within a reasonable period of time;
        (2) is accredited but fails substantially to carry out the terms 
    of the agreement entered into under this chapter; or
        (3) is no longer operated for the purpose for which such 
    assistance was granted,

the Secretary shall be entitled to recover from the recipient of 
assistance under this chapter the facilities of such school which were 
established with assistance under this chapter. In order to recover such 
facilities the Secretary may bring an action in the district court of 
the United States for the district in which such facilities are 
situated.

(Added Pub. L. 92-541, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1102, 
Sec. 5073; amended Pub. L. 94-581, title I, Sec. 116(3), (4), title II, 
Sec. 210(f)(3), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2854, 2865; Pub. L. 97-15, June 
17, 1981, 95 Stat. 99; Pub. L. 97-295, Sec. 4(95)(B), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 
Stat. 1313; Pub. L. 99-576, title VII, Sec. 702(16), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 
Stat. 3302; renumbered Sec. 8213 and amended Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, 
Sec. 402(b)(2)(B), (d)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 239; Pub. L. 102-83, 
Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), (b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(b)(2)(B), renumbered section 5073 of 
this title as this section.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted 
``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' in introductory provisions.
    Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted 
``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' wherever appearing.
    Subsec. (b)(1)(C). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), substituted 
``Department'' for ``Veterans' Administration''.
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted 
``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' in two places.
    Pub. L. 102-40, Sec. 402(d)(1), substituted ``8201(e)'' for 
``5070(e)''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted 
``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' wherever appearing.
    1986--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 99-576 substituted ``12-month'' for 
``twelve-month'' wherever appearing in introductory provisions and in 
subpar. (A) and ``percent'' for ``per centum'' in subpars. (A) to (G).
    1982--Subsec. (b)(1)(D). Pub. L. 97-295 substituted ``Secretary of 
Education'' for ``Commissioner of Education of the Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare''.
    1981--Subsec. (a)(2)(G). Pub. L. 97-15 substituted ``seventh and 
eighth such periods'' for ``seventh such period''.
    1976--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 94-581, Sec. 116(3), redesignated pars. 
(2) and (3) as (1) and (2), respectively. Former par. (1), which 
authorized the leasing of such land, buildings, and structures under the 
control of the Veterans' Administration as might be necessary for a new 
medical school, was struck out. See section 5070(e) of this title.
    Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 94-581, Sec. 210(f)(3)(A), substituted ``the 
Administrator'' for ``he'' in provisions preceding subpar. (A).
    Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 94-581, Secs. 116(4), 210(f)(3)(A), 
substituted ``section 5070(e) of this title and subsection (b)(1) of 
this section'' for ``subsections (a)(1) and (b)(1) of this section'' and 
``as the Administrator deems'' for ``as he deems''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 94-581, Sec. 210(f)(3)(B), substituted ``the 
Administrator'' for ``he'' in provisions preceding par. (1) and in 
provisions following par. (3).


                    Effective Date of 1976 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 94-581 effective Oct. 21, 1976, see section 211 
of Pub. L. 94-581, set out as a note under section 111 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8212 of this title.
