Grants for Construction of Teaching Facilities, Educational Improvements, Scholarships, and Student Loans and Grants for Training of Public Health and Allied Health Personnel

This final rule revises existing regulations which govern various Public Health Service (PHS) health professions, nursing, and allied health training grant, scholarship, traineeship, and loan programs. The affected regulations are amended primarily by the Health Professions Extension Amendments of 1992 which: Renumbered the various PHS Act section numbers and their corresponding United States Code numbers; repealed the authority for the National Advisory Council on Health Professions Education; and repealed and eliminated various title VII and VIII health professions, nursing, and allied health training grant and traineeship programs. Some of the currently codified regulations no longer reflect the current provisions of the statute and are not modifiable as such and, therefore, are also being removed from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The definition of ``State'' is being revised in each of the program regulations in accordance with the 1994 Compact of Free Association with [the Republic of] Palau. Other changes for consistency are made to the regulations and are technical or clarifying in nature.