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[Document affected by Public Law 106-554 Section 1(a)(1)[223]]
[CITE: 42USC288-5]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                       Part G--Awards and Training
 
Sec. 288-5. Loan repayment program regarding clinical 
        researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds
        

(a) Implementation of program

                           (1) In general

        Subject to section 288(a)(1)(C) of this title, the Secretary, 
    acting through the Director of NIH may, subject to paragraph (2), 
    carry out a program of entering into contracts with appropriately 
    qualified health professionals who are from disadvantaged 
    backgrounds under which such health professionals agree to conduct 
    clinical research as employees of the National Institutes of Health 
    in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to pay, for each 
    year of such service, not more than $35,000 of the principal and 
    interest of the educational loans of the health professionals.

                           (2) Limitation

        The Director of NIH may not enter into a contract with a health 
    professional pursuant to paragraph (1) unless such professional has 
    a substantial amount of education loans relative to income.

    (3) Applicability of certain provisions regarding obligated 
                                   service

        Except to the extent inconsistent with this section, the 
    provisions of sections 254l-1, 254m and 254o of this title shall 
    apply to the program established in paragraph (1) to the same extent 
    and in the same manner as such provisions apply to the National 
    Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program established in section 
    254l-1 of this title.

(b) Availability of authorization 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 IV, Sec. 487E, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title XVI, Sec. 1631, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 185; amended Pub. L. 105-
392, title IV, Sec. 410(d), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3589.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 410(d)(1), substituted 
``$35,000'' for ``$20,000''.
    Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 105-392, Sec. 410(d)(2), substituted ``254l-
1, 254m'' for ``254m''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 288 of this title.
