§8107. Operational and construction plans for medical facilities

(a)(1) In order to promote effective planning for the orderly construction, replacement, and alteration of medical facilities in accordance with the comparative urgency of the need for the services to be provided by such facilities, the Secretary, after considering the analysis and recommendations of the Under Secretary for Health, shall submit to each committee an annual report on the construction, replacement, alteration, and operation of medical facilities.

(2) Each such report shall contain-

(A) a five-year strategic plan for the operation and construction of medical facilities-

(i) setting forth-

(I) the mission of each existing or proposed medical facility;

(II) any planned change in such mission; and

(III) the operational steps needed to achieve the facility's mission and the dates by which such steps are planned to be completed; and

(ii) a five-year plan, based on the factors set out in subclause (i) of this clause, for construction, replacement, or alteration projects for each such facility;

(B) a list, in order of priority, of not less than 10 hospitals that, in the judgment of the Secretary, after considering the analysis and recommendations of the Under Secretary for Health, are most in need of construction or replacement; and

(C) general plans (including projected costs, site location, and, if appropriate, necessary land acquisition) for each medical facility for which construction, replacement, or alteration is planned under clause (A)(ii) of this paragraph.

(3) The report under this subsection shall be submitted not later than June 30 of each year.

(b) The Secretary shall submit to each committee not later than January 31 of each year a report showing the location, space, cost, and status of each medical facility (1) the construction, alteration, lease, or other acquisition of which has been approved under section 8104(a) of this title, and (2) which was uncompleted as of the date of the last preceding report made under this subsection.

(Added Pub. L. 96–22, title III, §301(a), June 13, 1979, 93 Stat. 58 , §5007; amended Pub. L. 99–166, title III, §302(a)–(c)(1), Dec. 3, 1985, 99 Stat. 955 ; Pub. L. 99–576, title II, §222, Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3259 ; renumbered §8107 and amended Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, §402(b)(1), (d)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238 , 239; Pub. L. 102–54, §14(f)(3), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 287 ; Pub. L. 102–83, §4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404 , 405; Pub. L. 102–405, title III, §302(c)(1), Oct. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 1984 .)

Amendments

1992-Subsec. (a)(1), (2)(B). Pub. L. 102–405 substituted "Under Secretary for Health" for "Chief Medical Director".

1991-Pub. L. 102–40, §402(b)(1), renumbered section 5007 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 102–83 substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator".

Subsec. (a)(2)(B). Pub. L. 102–83, §4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator".

Pub. L. 102–54 amended subsec. (a)(2)(B) as in effect immediately before the enactment of Pub. L. 102–40 by striking out the second comma before "are most in need of".

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–83 substituted "Secretary" for "Administrator".

Pub. L. 102–40, §402(d)(1), substituted "8104(a)" for "5004(a)".

1986-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–576 inserted ", after considering the analysis and recommendations of the Chief Medical Director," after "Administrator" in pars. (1) and (2)(B).

1985-Pub. L. 99–166, §302(c)(1), substituted "Operational and construction plans for medical facilities" for "Reports to congressional committees" in section catchline.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 99–166, §302(a)(1)–(3), designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted "an annual report on the construction, replacement, alteration, and operation of medical facilities" for "an annual report on the construction, replacement, and alteration of medical facilities", and struck out provisions relating to the content of the reports to be submitted to congressional committees and the time such reports were to be submitted.

Subsec. (a)(2), (3). Pub. L. 99–166, §302(a)(4), added pars. (2) and (3).

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99–166, §302(b), struck out "(beginning in 1981)" before "a report", designated existing provisions as cl. (1), and substituted cl. (2) designation for ", in the case of the second and each succeeding report made under this subsection,".