42 CFR § 59a.2 - Definitions.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t42/s59a.2"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "42 CFR § 59a.2 - Definitions."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "59a.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "D"
subchapter_name: "GRANTS"
part_number: "59a"
part_name: "NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE GRANTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
regulatory_source: "56 FR 29189, June 26, 1991, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "59a"
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# 59a.2 Definitions.
Undefined terms have the same meaning as provided in the Act. As used in this subpart:
*Act* means the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 201 *et seq.*).
*Project period*—See § 59a.5(c).
*Related instrumentality* means a public or private institution, organization, or agency, other than a medical library, whose primary function is the acquisition, preservation, dissemination, and/or processing of information relating to the health sciences.
*Secretary* means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other official of the Department of Health and Human Services to whom the authority involved is delegated.