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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 42USC291j-4]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER IV--CONSTRUCTION AND MODERNIZATION OF HOSPITALS AND OTHER 
                           MEDICAL FACILITIES
 
Part B--Loan Guarantees and Loans for Modernization and Construction of 
                 Hospitals and Other Medical Facilities
 
Sec. 291j-4. Payment of interest on guaranteed loans

    (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, in 
the case of a guarantee of any loan to a nonprofit private agency under 
this part with respect to a hospital or other medical facility, the 
Secretary shall pay, to the holder of such loan and for and on behalf of 
such hospital or other medical facility amounts sufficient to reduce by 
3 per centum per annum the net effective interest rate otherwise payable 
on such loan. Each holder of a loan, to a nonprofit private agency, 
which is guaranteed under this part shall have a contractual right to 
receive from the United States interest payments required by the 
preceding sentence.
    (b) Contracts to make the payments provided for in this section 
shall not carry an aggregate amount greater than such amount as may be 
provided in appropriations Acts.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title VI, Sec. 624, as added Pub. L. 91-296, 
title II, Sec. 201, June 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 347.)
