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 123STA T .78 2 PUBLIC LA W 111 – 8 —M A R .11, 2 0 0 9theS e cr et a r yof State a sm ay b e n ecessary to p ay the costs of ac qui sition ,l ease, alteration, reno v ation, an d mana g ement of facilities outside of the U nited States for the use of the D epartment of H ealth and Human Services .T he Department of State shall cooperate fully w ith the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that the Department of Health and Human Services has secure, safe, functional facilities that comply with applicable regulation governing location, setbac k , and other facilities requirements and serve the purposes estab - lished by this A ct. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authori z ed, in consultation with the Secretary of State, through grant or cooperative agreement, to make available to public or nonprofit private institutions or agencies in partici- pating foreign countries, funds to acquire, lease, alter, or ren- ovate facilities in those countries as necessary to conduct pro- grams of assistance for international health activities, including activities relating to H IV/ AIDS and other infectious diseases, chronic and environmental diseases, and other health activities abroad. S EC . 214 . ( a ) A UTHORI T Y . —N otwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the National Institutes of Health ( ‘ ‘Director ’ ’) may use funds available under section 4 0 2(b)( 7 ) or 402(b)(12) of the P ublic Health Service Act (‘‘PHS Act’’) to enter into transactions (other than contracts, cooperative agreements, or grants) to carry out research identified pursuant to such section 402(b)(7) (per- taining to the C ommon F und) or research and activities described in such section 402(b)(12). (b) PEER R E V IE W .—In entering into transactions under sub- section (a), the Director may utilize such peer review procedures (including consultation with appropriate scientific e x perts) as the Director determines to be appropriate to obtain assessments of scientific and technical merit. Such procedures shall apply to such transactions in lieu of the peer review and advisory council review procedures that would otherwise be required under sections 3 01(a)(3), 40 5 (b)(1)( B ), 405(b)(2), 40 6 (a)(3)(A), 4 9 2, and 494 of the PHS Act. SEC. 215. Funds which are available for Individual L earning Accounts for employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (‘‘CDC’’) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Dis- ease Registry (‘‘ATSDR’’) may be transferred to ‘‘Disease Control, Research, and Training’’, to be available only for Individual Learning Accounts
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d, That such funds may be used for any individual full-time equivalent employee while such employee is employed either by CDC or ATSDR. SEC. 216. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, funds made available in this Act may be used to continue operating the Council on G raduate M edical E ducation established by section 301 of Public Law 102 – 40 8 . SEC. 217. The Director of the National Institutes of Health (‘‘NIH’’) shall require in the current fiscal year and thereafter that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months after the official date of publication: Provided, That the NIH shall implement the public access policy in a manner consistent with copyright law. Electroni c recor ds.Pub lic in f or ma tion. D eadline. 42USC 2 8 2c. 42USC2 9 4 0 o note. Ap plicabilit y .