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[CITE: 38USC8233]

 
                      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 III--ASSISTANCE TO PUBLIC AND NONPROFIT INSTITUTIONS OF 
   HIGHER LEARNING, HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH MANPOWER INSTITUTIONS 
      AFFILIATED WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION OF 
                 PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER HEALTH PERS 
Sec. 8233. Grants

    (a) Any eligible institution may apply to the Secretary for a grant 
under this subchapter to assist such institution to carry out through 
the Department medical facility with which it is, or will become 
affiliated, educational and clinical projects and programs, matching the 
clinical requirements of the facility to the health manpower training 
potential of the eligible institution, for the expansion and improvement 
of such institution's capacity to train health manpower, including 
physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and other new types of 
health personnel in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter. Any 
such application shall contain a plan to carry out such projects and 
programs and such other information in such detail as the Secretary 
deems necessary and appropriate.
    (b) An application for a grant under this section may be approved by 
the Secretary only upon the Secretary's determination that--
        (1) the proposed projects and programs for which the grant will 
    be made will make a significant contribution to improving the 
    education (including continuing education) or training program of 
    the eligible institution;
        (2) the application contains or is supported by adequate 
    assurance that any Federal funds made available under this 
    subchapter will be supplemented by funds or other resources 
    available from other sources, whether public or private;
        (3) the application sets forth such fiscal control and 
    accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper 
    disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds expended under 
    this subchapter; and
        (4) the application provides for making such reports, in such 
    form and containing such information, as the Secretary may require 
    to carry out the Secretary's functions under this subchapter, and 
    for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as 
    the Secretary may find necessary to assure the correctness and 
    verification of such reports.

(Added Pub. L. 92-541, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1106, 
Sec. 5093; amended Pub. L. 94-581, title II, Sec. 210(f)(5), Oct. 21, 
1976, 90 Stat. 2866; Pub. L. 96-330, title IV, Sec. 405, Aug. 26, 1980, 
94 Stat. 1052; renumbered Sec. 8233, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, 
Sec. 402(b)(2)(D), 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 renumbered section 5093 of this title as this 
section.
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted 
``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' in two places.
    Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), substituted ``Department'' for 
``Veterans' Administration''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted 
``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' and ``Secretary's'' for 
``Administrator's'' wherever appearing.
    1980--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 96-330 struck out ``and will result in 
a substantial increase in the number of students trained at such 
institution, provided that there is reasonable assurance from a 
recognized accrediting body or bodies approved for such purposes by the 
Commissioner of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and 
Welfare that the increase in the number of students will not threaten 
any existing accreditation or otherwise compromise the quality of the 
training at such institution'' after ``training program of the eligible 
institution''.
    1976--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94-581 substituted ``the 
Administrator's'' for ``his'' in provisions preceding par. (1) and in 
par. (4).


                    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.
