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[CITE: 42USC247b-7]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
                    Part B--Federal-State Cooperation
 
Sec. 247b-7. Loan repayment program


(a) In general

                            (1) Authority

        Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary may carry out a program 
    of entering into contracts with appropriately qualified health 
    professionals under which such health professionals agree to conduct 
    prevention activities, as employees of the Centers for Disease 
    Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and 
    Disease Registry, in consideration of the Federal Government 
    agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than 
    $35,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of 
    such health professionals.

                           (2) Limitation

        The Secretary may not enter into an agreement with a health 
    professional pursuant to paragraph (1) unless such professional--
            (A) has a substantial amount of educational loans relative 
        to income; and
            (B) agrees to serve as an employee of the Centers for 
        Disease Control and Prevention or the Agency for Toxic 
        Substances and Disease Registry for purposes of paragraph (1) 
        for a period of not less than 3 years.

(b) Applicability of certain provisions

    With respect to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment 
Program established in subpart III of part D of this subchapter, the 
provisions of such subpart shall, except as inconsistent with subsection 
(a) of this section, apply to the program established in this section in 
the same manner and to the same extent as such provisions apply to the 
National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program.

(c) Authorization of appropriations

    For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $500,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may 
be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 through 2002.

(d) Availability of appropriations

    Amounts appropriated for a fiscal year for contracts under 
subsection (a) of this section shall remain available until the 
expiration of the second fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year for 
which the amounts were appropriated.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 317F, as added Pub. L. 103-183, 
title VII, Sec. 703, Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2240; amended Pub. L. 105-
392, title IV, Sec. 406, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3588.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 406(1), substituted 
``$35,000'' for ``$20,000''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 406(2), substituted ``2002'' for 
``1998''.
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 406(3), added subsec. (d).
