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


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


                             STATEMNT OF

                           PAUL G. DEMBLING
                           GENERAL COUNSEL
                              BEFORE THE
              SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
              COMMITTEE ON INTKRSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                 ON
                      THE PROPOSED CLOSINGS OF PUBLIC
       HEALTH SERVICE HOSPITALS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,
                        AND WELFARE (H. CON. RES. 98)


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We appreciate this opportunity to appear before your subcommittee

to present our views on H. Con. Res. 98 and similar resolutions on the

proposed closings of the Public Health Service Hospitals by the Depart-

ment of Health, Education, and Welfare. The purpose of these resolutions

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 our current views on this







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