[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 42, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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:



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    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.