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               United States General Accounting Office
                       Washington, D. C. 20548


                                                  FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                                  Expected at 10:00 a.m. EST
                                                  Monday, March 8, 1971


                             STATEMENT OF

                           PAUL G. DEMLING
                           GENERAL COUNSEL
                              BEFORE THE
                         SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH,
              SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
                          UNITED STATES SENATE
                                  ON
                     THE PROPOSED CLOSINGS OF PUBLIC
      HEALTH SERVICE HOSPITALS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,
                       An WELFARE (S. CON. RES. 6)


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We appreciate this opportunity to appear before your subcommittee

to present our views on S. Con. Res. 6 on the proposed closings of the

Public Health Service Hospitals by the Department of Health, Education,

and Welfare. The purpose of the resolution is to express the sense of

the Congress that the existing facilities be maintained for the present

and be considered as an integral part of the nation's health delivery

system.

     As you know, the proposed closings have been the subject of two legal

opinions rendered by the Comptroller General; one in June, 1965 and the

most recent one of February 23, of this year. Last month's opinion was

rendered to the Chairman of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and

Fisheries, in response to his request for cur current views on this

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