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 104 STAT. 2320 PUBLIC LAW 101-527—NOV. 6, 1990 "(i) the school will establish an arrangement with 1 or more public or nonprofit private institutions of higher education whose enrollment of students has traditionally included a significant number of Native Americans, the purpose of which arrangement will be to cany out a program— (I) to identify Native American students of the institution who are interested in a career in the health profession or professions involved; and "(ID to facilitate the educational preparation of such students to enter the health professions school; and "(ii) the health professions school will make efforts to recruit Native American students, including students who have participated in the undergraduate program carried out under arremgements established by the school pursuant to subparagraph (A), and will assist Native American students regarding the completion of the educational requirements for a degree from the health professions school. "(5) OTHER CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE. — The conditions specified in this paragraph are that a health professions school has an enrollment of underrepresented minorities above the national average for such enrollments of health professions schools. " (d) DESIGNATION AS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE. — "(1) IN GENERAL.—Any health professions school receiving a grant under subsection (a) and meeting the conditions described in paragraph (2) or (5) of subsection (c) shall, for purposes of this section, be designated by the Secretary as a Center of Excellence in Minority Health Professions Education. "(2) HISPANIC CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.— Any health professions school receiving a grant under subsection (a) and meeting the conditions described in subsection (c)(3) shall, for purposes of this section, be designated by the Secretary as a Hispanic Center of Excellence in Health Professions Education. "(3) NATIVE AMERICAN CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE.— Any health professions school receiving a grant under subsection (a) and meeting the conditions described in subsection (c)(4) shall, for purposes of this section, be designated by the Secretary as a Native American Center of Excellence in Health Professions Education. "(e) DURATION OF GRANT.— The period during which payments are made under a grant under subsection (a) may not exceed 3 years. Such payments shall be subject to annual approval by the Secretary and to the availability of appropriations for the fiscal year involved to make the payments. "(f) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT.— " (1) NON-FEDERAL FUNDS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. —With respect to activities for which a grant under subsection (a) is authorized to be expended, the Secretary may not, in the case of a public health professions school, make such a grant to the school for any fiscal year unless the school agrees to maintain expenditures of non-Federal amounts for such activities at a level equal to not less than the level of such expenditures maintained by the school for the fiscal year preceding the first fiscal year for which the school applies after fiscal year 1990 to receive such a grant.

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