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[CITE: 42USC288-3]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                       Part G--Awards and Training
 
Sec. 288-3. Loan repayment program for research generally


(a) In general

                      (1) Authority for program

        Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall carry out a 
    program of entering into contracts with appropriately qualified 
    health professionals under which such health professionals agree to 
    conduct research, as employees of the National Institutes of Health, 
    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 National 
        Institutes of Health 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 subchapter II of this 
chapter, the provisions of such subpart shall, except as inconsistent 
with subsection (a) of this section, apply to the program established in 
such subsection (a) of this section in the same manner and to the same 
extent as such provisions apply to the National Health Service Corps 
Loan Repayment Program established in such subpart.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 487C, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title XVI, Sec. 1621, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 182; amended Pub. L. 105-
392, title IV, Sec. 410(c), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3589.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105-392 substituted ``$35,000'' for 
``$20,000''.
