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 PUBLIC LAW 99-158-NOV. 20, 1985 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) Each individual who is awarded a National Research Service Award (other than an individual who is a pre-baccalaureate student who is awarded a National Research Service Award for research training) shall, in accordance with paragraph (3), engage in health research or teaching or any combination thereof which is in accordance with the usual patterns of academic employment, for a period computed in accordance with paragraph (2). "(2) For each month for which an individual receives a National Research Service Award which is made for a period in excess of twelve months, such individual shall engage in one month of health research or teaching or any combination thereof which is in accordance with the usual patterns of academic employment. "(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 by regulation prescribe the type of research and teaching in which an individual may engage to comply with such requirement and such other requirements respecting research and teaching as the Secretary considers appropriate. "(4)(A) If any individual to whom the requirement of paragraph (1) is applicable fails, within the period prescribed by paragraph (3), to comply with such requirements, the United States shall be entitled to recover from such individual an amount determined in accordance with the formula—

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,. ( - ) in which 'A' is the amount the United States is entitled to recover; W is the sum of the total amount paid under one or more National Kesearch Service Awards to such individual; 't' is the total number of months in such individual's service obligation; and 's' is the number of months of such obligation served by such individual in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection. "(B) Any amount which the United States is entitled to recover under subparagraph (A) shall, within the three-year period beginning on the date the United States becomes entitled to recover such amount, be paid to the United States. Until any amount due the United States under subparagraph (A) on account of any National Research Service Award is paid, there shall accrue to the United States interest on such amount at a rate fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury after taking into consideration private consumer rates of interest prevailing on the date the United States becomes entitled to such amount. "(5)(A) Any obligation of an individual under paragraph (1) shall be canceled upon the death of such individual. "(B) The Secretary shall by regulation provide for the waiver or suspension of any such obligation applicable to any individual whenever compliance b^^ such individual is impossible or would involve substantial hardship to such individual or would be against equity and good conscience.

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