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 102 STAT. 3148

PUBLIC LAW 100-607—NOV. 4, 1988 (B) return the application, together with such statement, by a date that permits the applicant involved a sufficient period of time in which to prepare a timely second application for submission pursuant to the solicitation with respect to which the first application is being returned.

SEC. 634. ESTABLISHMENT OF LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH AT NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH WITH RESPECT TO ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Part F of title IV is amended by inserting after section 487 the following new section: 42 USC 288-1.

"SEC. 487A. LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAM FOR RESEARCH WITH RESPECT TO ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME. "(a) IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAM.—

"(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988, the Secretary shall, subject to paragraph (2), establish and implement a program of entering into agreements with appropriately qualified health professionals under which such health professionals agree to conduct, as employees of the National Institutes of Health, research with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome in consideration of the Federal Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than $20,000 of the principal and interest of the educational loans of such health professionals. "(2) LIMITATION.—The Secretary may not enter in 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) was not employed at the National Institutes of Health during the 1-year period preceding the date of the enactment of the Health Professions Reauthorization Act of 1988. "(b) APPLICATION.—With respect to the National Health Service Corps Loan Repa3ment Program established in subpart III of part D of title III, the provisions of such subpart shall, except as inconsistent with subsection (a) of this section, apply to the program established in such subsection (a) 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. "(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—

"(1) IN GENERAL.—For the purpose of carrying out subsection (a), there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1989 through 1991. "(2) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) for a fiscal year shall remain available until the expiration of the second fiscal year beginning after the fiscal year for which the amounts were appropriated.'. SEC. 635. NATIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE AWARDS WITH RESPECT TO TITLE VII PROGRAMS.

Section 487(d)(3) (42 U.S.C. 288) is amended by inserting after "made available", the first time such appears, the following: to the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration,".

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