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 104 STAT. 3224 PUBLIC LAW 101-613—NOV. 16, 1990 Public Law 101-613 101st Congress An Act Nov. 16, 1990 To amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to certain programs for the [S. 2857] National Institutes of Health. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "National Institutes of Health Amendments of 1990". National Institutes of Health Amendments of 1990. Medical I*6S6£LZ*ch 42 USC 201 note. SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH. Title IV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 281 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new part: "P AR T H—NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH 42 USC 290b. "SEC. 499A. ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES OF FOUNDATION. "(a) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary shall establish a nonprofit corporation to be known as the National Foundation for Biomedical Research (hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Foundation'). The Foundation shall not, except for the purposes of the Ethics in Government Act and the Technology Transfer Act, be an agency or instrumentality of the United States Government. "(b) DUTIES.— "(1) ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND FOR ENDOWING RESEARCH POSI- TIONS AT NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH.— "(A) The Foundation shall establish a fund whose primary purpose shall be to provide endowments for positions at the National Institutes of Health to conduct biomedical research. Such positions may be held by scientists without regard to whether the scientists are employees of the Federal Government. "(B) In addition to the purpose described in subparagraph (A), the fund established under such subparagraph may be expended to recruit scientists to hold the positions endowed by the fund. "(C) The purposes for which an endowment under subparagraph (A) may be expended include support for the staffing, equipment, and quarters for the biomedical research conducted by scientists holding endowed positions under such subparagraph. "(2) APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN STANDARDS REGARDING NON- FEDERAL RESEARCHERS.— In the case of scientists holding endowed positions under paragraph (I)(A) who are not employees of the Federal Government, the Foundation shall negotiate a memorandum of understanding with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, subject to the approval of the Sec-

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