An Act to amend the act of August 7, 1946, so as to authorize the making of grants for hospital facilities, to provide a basis for repayment to the Government by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 82-221 (H.R.2094), enacted 10/25/1951

65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 221—OCT. 25, 1951 
657 
covered by each such report. 
Each such report shall include, with 
respect to each such claim, a statement of the amount paid, to whom, 
and a brief description of the claim. 
"(f) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the pay-
ment of any amount as compensation for any benefit to which the 
claimant might subsequently become entitled under the laws and regu-
lations administered by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs." 
SEO. 2. This Act shall be effective from and after August 2, 1946. 
Approved October 25, 1951. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 221 
CHAPTER 589 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 7, 1946, so as to authorize the making of grants for 
hospital facilities, to provide a basis for repayment to the Government by the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
October 25,1951 
[H. R. 20941 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assennhled^ That the first section 
of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a mod-
ern, adequate, and efficient hospital center in the District of Columbia", 
approved August 7, 1946, is amended by striking out "acquire land 
and construct buildings" and inserting in lieu thereof "acquire land, 
construct buildings, and make grants to private agencies". 
SEC. 2, The first section of such Act of August 7, 1946, is further 
amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(c) To make grants to private agencies in cash, or in land or other 
property (which the Administrator is hereby authorized to acquire 
for such purpose by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise) upon such 
terms and in such amounts or of such value as the Administrator may 
deem to be in the public interest to enable such private agencies to 
make surveys and investigations, to plan, design, construct, remodel, 
relocate, rebuild, renovate, extend, equip, furnish, or repair hospital 
facilities in the District of Columbia: Provided^ That in no event 
shall the amount or value of the grant exceed 50 per centum of the 
value of the hospital plant of a private agency as improved with the 
aid of such grant: Provided further^ That, except in the case of the 
construction and equipment of a new hospital, no such grant shall 
be made to any private agency unless such private agency shall obli-
gate itself to pay at least 50 per centum of the cost of any project for 
which such grant is made. As used in this Act, the term 'private 
agencies' shall mean any nonprofit private agencies operating hospital 
facilities in the District of Columbia." 
SE». 3. The fifth section of such Act of August 7, 1946, is amended 
by striking out 30 per centum wherever it appears in said section and 
inserting 50 per centum and by striking from the first sentence thereof 
the words "at such times and in such amounts, without interest, as 
the Congress shall hereafter determine", and by inserting in lieu 
thereof "at the annual rate, without interest of 3 per centum of such 
50 per centum". 
SEC. 4. The title of such Act of August 7, 1946, is amended to read 
as follows: "An Act to provide for the establishment of a modern, 
adequate, and efficient hospital center in the District of Columbia, to 
authorize the making of grants for hospital facilities to private agen-
cies in the District of Columbia, to provide a basis for repayment to 
the Government by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
and for other purposes." 
Approved October 25, 1951. 
Hospital facilities, 
D. C. 
60 Stat. 896.