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 102 STAT. 1700

Contracts.

Government organization and employees. Children and youth. AIDS.

AIDS.

42 USC 210 note.

Public buildings and grounds.

WUdlife.

PUBLIC LAW 100-436—SEPT. 20, 1988

the clinical, research, or staff associate program administered by the National Institutes of Health. SEC. 209. None of the funds appropriated in this title shall be used to transfer the general administration of programs authorized under the Native American Programs Act from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of the Interior. SEC. 210. Funds provided in this Act may be used for one-year contracts which are to be performed in two fiscal years, so long as the total amount for such contracts is obligated in the year for which the funds are appropriated. SEC. 211. The Secretary shall make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health^rvice^jvlio shall be exempt from all FTE limitations in the'Department, to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs through and with funds provided by the Agency for International Development, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund or the World Health Organization. In addition, commissioned officers assigned under this section shall be exempt from all limitations on the number and grade of officers in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. SEC. 212. For the purpose of insuring proper management of federally supported computer systems and data bases, funds appropriated by this Act are available for the purchase of dedicated telephone service between the private residences of employees assigned to computer centers funded under this Act, and the computer centers to which such employees are assigned. SEC. 213. Funds available in this title for activities related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) may be transferred between appropriation accounts upon the approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of a transfer request submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. SEC. 214. Funds made available for fiscal year 1989 and hereafter to the National Institutes of Health shall be available for payment of nurses and allied health professionals using pay, schedule options, benefits, and other authorities as provided for the nurses of the Veterans' Administration under 38 tJ.S.C. chapter 73. SEC. 215. Of the funds appropriated in this Act for the National Institutes of Health, a reduction of $6,765,000 is to be applied to all appropriations as a result of improved procurement practices. SEC. 216. NIH Building Numbered 31 is hereby named the Claude Denson Pepper Building. SEC. 217. Funds appropriated by this Act may be used to pay physicians' comparability allowgmces as authorized under 5 U.S.C. 5948. SEC. 218. (a)(1) In enacting this section Congress hereby— (A) recognizes the national and international legal protection granted chimpanzees under the Endangered Species Act and the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species, to which the United States is a signatory, and also the World Health Organization's Policy Statement on Use of Primates for Biomedical Purposes, all of which acknowledges the threatened or endangered status of the chimpanzee; and (B) acknowledges that substantial public monies are already being expended on a National Chimpanzee Breeding and Research Program in the United States. (2) No funds appropriated under this Act or any other provisions of law shall be used by the National Institutes of Health, or any

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