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 344 Stipends and allowances.

Health r e s e a r c h or t e a c h i n g, participation.

42 USC 1395mm, 42 U S C 3 0 0 e - l,

Health-related activities.

PUBLIC LAW 93-348-JULY 12, 1974

[88 STAT.

"(5) National Research Service Awards shall provide for such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses and dependency allowances) for the recipients of the Awards as the Secretary may deem necessary. A National Research Service Award made to an individual for research or research training at a nonFederal public or nonprofit private institution shall also provide for payments to be made to the institution for the cost of support services (including the cost of faculty salaries, supplies, equipment, general research support, and related items) provided such individual by such institution. The amount of any such payments to any institution shall be determined by the Secretary and shall bear a direct relationship to the reasonable costs of the institution for establishing and maintaining the quality of its biomedical and behavioral research and training programs. " (c)(1)(A) Each individual who receives a National Research Service Award shall, in accordance with paragraph (8), engage in— " (i) health research or teaching, "(ii) if authorized under subparagraph (B), serve as a member of the National Health Service Corps or serve in his specialty, or "(iii) if authorized under subparagraph (C), serve in a health related activity approved under that subparagraph, for a period computed in accordance with paragraph (2). " (B) Any individual who received a National Research Service Award and who is a physician, dentist, nurse, or other individual trained to provide health care directly to individual patients may, upon application to the Secretary, be authorized by the Secretary to— "fi) serve as a member of the National Health Service Corps, "(ii) serve in his specialty in private practice in a geographic area designated by the Secretary as requiring that specialty, or "(iii) provides services in his specialty for a health maintenance organization to which payments may be made under section 1876 of title X VIII of the Social Security Act and which serves a medically underserved population (as defined in section 1302(7) of this Act), in lieu of engaging in health research or teaching if the Secretary determines that there are no suitable health research or teaching positions available to such individual. " (C) Where appropriate the Secretary may, upon application, authorize a recipient of a National Research Service Award, who is not trained to provide health care directly to individual patients, to engage in a health-related activity in lieu of engaging in health research or teaching if the Secretary determines that thorc are no suitable health research or teaching positions available to such individual. "(2) For each year for which an individual receives a National Research Service Award he shall— " (A) for twelve months engage in health research or teaching or, if so authorized, serve as a member of the National Health Service Corps, or " (B) if authorized under paragraph (1)(B) o r (l)(C), for twenty months serve in his specialty or engage in a health-related activity. "(3) The requirement of paragraph (1) shall be complied with by any individual to whom it applies within such reasonable period of time, after the completion of such individual's Award, as the Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. The Secretary shall (A) by regulation prescribe (i) the type of research and teaching which an individual may engage in to comply with such requirement, and (ii)

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