Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 1.djvu/885

 PUBLIC LAW 99-158-NOV. 20, 1985

99 STAT. 863

"(A) to modify and increase their library resources, and to supplement the resources of cooperating libraries in the region, so as to be able to provide adequate supportive services to all libraries in the region as well as to individual users of library services; and "(B) to provide free loan services to qualified users and make available photoduplicated or facsimile copies of biomedical materials which qualified requesters may retain. "(2) The Secretary, in awarding grants and contracts under this section, shall give priority to medical libraries having the greatest potential of fulfilling the needs for regional medical libraries. In determining the priority to be assigned to any medical library, the Secretary shall consider— "(A) the adequacy of the librarv (in terms of collections, personnel, equipment, and other facilities) as a basis for a regional medical library; and (B) the size and nature of the population to be served in the region in which the library is located. "(d) Grants and contracts under this section for basic resource materials to a library may not exceed— "(1) 50 percent of the library's annual operating expense (exclusive of Federal financial assistance under this part) for the preceding year; or "(2) in case of the first year in which the library receives a grant under this section for basic resource materials, 50 percent of its average annual operating expenses over the past three years (or if it had been in operation for less than three years, its annual operating expenses determined by the Secretary in accordance with regulations). "FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

"SEC. 476. (a) The Secretary, with the advice of the Board, shall make grants to, and enter into appropriate contracts with, public or private nonprofit institutions of higher education and individual scientists for the purpose of supporting biomedical scientific publications of a nonprofit nature and to procure the compilation, writing, editing, and publication of reviews, abstracts, indices, handbooks, bibliographies, and related matter pertaining to scientiHc works and scientific developments. "(b) Grants under subsection (a) in support of any single periodical publication may not be made for more than three years, except in those cases in which the Secretary determines that further support is necessary to carry out the purposes of subsection (a).

Grants. Contracts. Education. 42 USC 286b-7.

GRANT PAYMENTS, RECORDS, AND AUDIT

"SEC. 477. (a) Payments under grants made under sections 472, 473, 474, 475, and 476 may be made in advance or by way of reimbursement and in such installments as the Secretary shall prescribe by regulation after consultation with the Board. "(b)(1) Each recipient of a grant under this subpart shall keep such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such grant, the total cost of the project or undertaking in connection with which such grant is given or used, and the amount of that portion of the cost of the project or undertaking

Regulations. 42 USC 286b-8. Ante, pp. 860-862; supra.

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