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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 42USC300z-7]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
     SUBCHAPTER XVIII--ADOLESCENT FAMILY LIFE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS
 
Sec. 300z-7. Research


(a) Grants and contracts; duration; renewal; amount

    (1) The Secretary may make grants and enter into contracts with 
public agencies or private organizations or institutions of higher 
education to support the research and dissemination activities described 
in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of section 300z(b) of this title.
    (2) The Secretary may make grants or enter into contracts under this 
section for a period of one year. A grant or contract under this section 
for a project may be renewed for four additional one-year periods, which 
need not be consecutive.
    (3) A grant or contract for any one-year period under this section 
may not exceed $100,000 for the direct costs of conducting research or 
disemination \1\ activities under this section and may include such 
additional amounts for the indirect costs of conducting such activities 
as the Secretary determines appropriate. The Secretary may waive the 
preceding sentence with respect to a specific project if he determines 
that--
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``dissemination''.
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        (A) exceptional circumstances warrant such waiver and that the 
    project will have national impact; or
        (B) additional amounts are necessary for the direct costs of 
    conducting limited demonstration projects for the provision of 
    necessary services in order to provide data for research carried out 
    under this subchapter.

    (4) The amount of any grant or contract made under this section may 
remain available for obligation or expenditure after the close of the 
one-year period for which such grant or contract is made in order to 
assist the recipient in preparing the report required by subsection 
(f)(1) of this section.

(b) Scope of permissible activities

    (1) Funds provided for research under this section may be used for 
descriptive or explanatory surveys, longitudinal studies, or limited 
demonstration projects for services that are for the purpose of 
increasing knowledge and understanding of the matters described in 
paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 300z(b) of this title.
    (2) Funds provided under this section may not be used for the 
purchase or improvement of land, or the purchase, construction, or 
permanent improvement (other than minor remodeling) of any building or 
facility.

(c) Applications

    The Secretary may not make any grant or enter into any contract to 
support research or dissemination activities under this section unless--
        (1) the Secretary has received an application for such grant or 
    contract which is in such form and which contains such information 
    as the Secretary may by regulation require;
        (2) the applicant has demonstrated that the applicant is capable 
    of conducting one or more of the types of research or dissemination 
    activities described in paragraph (4), (5), or (6) of section 
    300z(b) of this title; and
        (3) in the case of an application for a research project, the 
    panel established by subsection (e)(2) of this section has 
    determined that the project is of scientific merit.

(d) Coordination with National Institutes of Health

    The Secretary shall, where appropriate, coordinate research and 
dissemination activities carried out under this section with research 
and dissemination activities carried out by the National Institutes of 
Health.

(e) Review of applications for grants and contracts; establishment of 
        review panel

    (1) The Secretary shall establish a system for the review of 
applications for grants and contracts under this section. Such system 
shall be substantially similar to the system for scientific peer review 
of the National Institutes of Health and shall meet the requirements of 
paragraphs (2) and (3).
    (2) In establishing the system required by paragraph (1), the 
Secretary shall establish a panel to review applications under this 
section. Not more than 25 per centum of the members of the panel shall 
be physicians. The panel shall meet as often as may be necessary to 
facilitate the expeditious review of applications under this section, 
but not less than once each year. The panel shall review each project 
for which an application is made under this section, evaluate the 
scientific merit of the project, determine whether the project is of 
scientific merit, and make recommendations to the Secretary concerning 
whether the application for the project should be approved.
    (3) The Secretary shall make grants under this section from among 
the projects which the panel established by paragraph (2) has determined 
to be of scientific merit and may only approve an application for a 
project if the panel has made such determination with respect to such a 
project. The Secretary shall make a determination with respect to an 
application within one month after receiving the determinations and 
recommendations of such panel with respect to the application.

(f) Reports

    (1)(A) The recipient of a grant or contract for a research project 
under this section shall prepare and transmit to the Secretary a report 
describing the results and conclusions of such research. Except as 
provided in subparagraph (B), such report shall be transmitted to the 
Secretary not later than eighteen months after the end of the year for 
which funds are provided under this section. The recipient may utilize 
reprints of articles published or accepted for publication in 
professional journals to supplement or replace such report if the 
research contained in such articles was supported under this section 
during the year for which the report is required.
    (B) In the case of any research project for which assistance is 
provided under this section for two or more consecutive one-year 
periods, the recipient of such assistance shall prepare and transmit the 
report required by subparagraph (A) to the Secretary not later than 
twelve months after the end of each one-year period for which such 
funding is provided.
    (2) Recipients of grants and contracts for dissemination under this 
section shall submit to the Secretary such reports as the Secretary 
determines appropriate.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XX, Sec. 2008, as added Pub. L. 97-35, 
title IX, Sec. 955(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 589; amended Pub. L. 98-
512, Sec. 2(e), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2409.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 98-512 struck out subsec. (g) which 
provided for collection of survey data used primarily for generation of 
national population estimates.
