[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR50.2]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 50--U.S. EXCHANGE VISITOR PROGRAM--REQUEST FOR WAIVER OF THE TWO-YEAR FOREIGN RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 50.2  Exchange Visitor Waiver Review Board.

    (a) Establishment. The Exchange Visitor Waiver Review Board is 
established to carry out the Department's responsibilities under the 
Exchange Visitor Program.
    (b) Functions. The Exchange Visitor Waiver Review Board is 
responsible for making thorough and equitable evaluations of 
applications submitted by institutions, acting on behalf of exchange 
visitors, to the Department of HHS for a favorable recommendation to the 
United States Information Agency that the two-year foreign residence 
requirement for exchange visitors under the Exchanges Visitor Program be 
waived.
    (c) Membership. The Exchange Visitor Waiver Review Board consists of 
no fewer than three members and two alternates, of whom no fewer than 
three shall consider any particular application. The Director of the 
Office of International Affairs, Office of the Secretary, is an ex 
officio member of the Board and serves as its Chairman. The Director may 
designate a staff member of the Office of the Secretary to serve as 
member and Chairman of the Board in the Director's absence. Two 
regularly assigned members and two alternates are appointed by the 
Assistant Secretary of Health to consider applications concerning 
health, biomedical research, and related fields. The Chairman may 
request the heads of operating divisions of the Department to appoint 
additional members to consider applications in other fields of interest 
to the Department (e.g. human services, social security). The Board may 
obtain expert advisory opinions from other sources.
    (d) Eligibility. The Board will review applications submitted by 
private or non-federal institutions, organizations or agencies or by a 
component agency of HHS. The Board will not consider applications 
submitted by exchange visitors or, unless under extenuating and 
exceptional circumstances, other U.S. Government Agencies.