42 CFR § 63a.2 - Definitions.

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title: "42 CFR § 63a.2 - Definitions."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "63a.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
subchapter_number: "E"
subchapter_name: "FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, TRAINING"
part_number: "63a"
part_name: "NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH TRAINING GRANTS"
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authority: "42 U.S.C. 216, 242(b)(3), 284(b)(1)(C), 285g-10, 287c(b), 300cc-15(a)(1), 300cc-41(a)(3)(C), 7403(h)(2)."
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# 63a.2 Definitions.

As used in this part:

*Act* means the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 201 *et seq.*).

*HHS* means the Department of Health and Human Services.

*NIH* means the National Institutes of Health and its organizational components that award training grants.

*Nonprofit* as applied to any agency or institution, means an agency or institution which is a corporation or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures or may lawfully inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

*Program director* means the single individual named by the grantee in the grant application and approved by the Secretary, who is responsible for the management and conduct of the training program.

*Project period* See § 63a.8(a).

*Secretary* means the Secretary of Health and Human Services and any other official of HHS to whom the authority involved is delegated.

*Stipend* means a payment to an individual to help meet that individual's subsistence expenses during the training period.

*Training grant* means an award of funds to an eligible agency or institution for a training program authorized under § 63a.1 to carry out one or more of the purposes set forth in § 63a.3.