Planning law deadlines threaten state programs.

By the end of June 1979, many states must have certification-of-need programs in compliance with federal regulations or lose federal funding for them. By the end of September 1980, states must be in compliance or lose federal funding for all state health resource development programs. Because these steps appear to be too politically severe for HEW to implement, Congress will have to take steps in the 96th Congress to modify the impact of these deadlines.