[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR52b.2]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 52b--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CONSTRUCTION GRANTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 52b.2  Definitions.

    As used in this part:
    Act means the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 201 
et seq.).
    Construction means the construction of new buildings or the 
modernization of, or the completion of shell space in, existing 
buildings (including the installation of fixed equipment), but excluding 
the cost of land acquisition and off-site improvements.
    Construction grant means funds awarded for construction in 
accordance with the applicable provisions of the Act and this part.
    Director means the Director of NIH or the director of an NIH 
national research institute, center, or other component of NIH, 
authorized to award grants for construction under the applicable 
provisions of the Act, and any official to whom the authority involved 
is delegated.
    Federal share with respect to any construction project means the 
proportion, expressed as a percentage, of the cost of a project to be 
paid by a grant award under the Act.
    HHS, DHHS, and Department mean the Department of Health and Human 
Services.
    Institute means any national research institute, center, or other 
agency of the National Institutes of Health.
    Modernization means the alteration, renovation, remodeling, 
improvement, expansion, and/or repair of existing buildings and the 
provision of equipment necessary to make the building suitable for use 
for the purposes of the particular program.
    NIH means the National Institutes of Health and its organizational 
components that award construction grants.
    Nonprofit as applied to any agency or institution means an agency or 
institution which is a corporation or an association, no part of the net 
earnings of which inures or may lawfully inure to the benefit of any 
private shareholder or individual.
    Project means the particular construction activity which is 
supported by a grant under this part.
    Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any 
official to whom the authority involved is delegated.