42 CFR § 64.2 - Definitions.

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title: "42 CFR § 64.2 - Definitions."
title_number: 42
title_name: "Public Health"
section_number: "64.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES"
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subchapter_name: "FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, TRAINING"
part_number: "64"
part_name: "NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE TRAINING GRANTS"
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authority: "42 U.S.C. 216, 286b-3."
regulatory_source: "56 FR 29192, June 26, 1991, unless otherwise noted."
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# 64.2 Definitions.

As used in this part:

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

*Nonprofit private entity* means an agency, organization, institution, or other entity which may not lawfully hold or use any part of its net earnings to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual which does not hold or use its net earnings for that purpose.

*Other trainee costs* means those costs other than stipends, such as tuition, fees, and trainee travel, which are directly associated with and necessary for the training of individuals receiving stipends and which are incurred within the period of training.

*Project 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 project.

*Project period.* See § 64.6(b).

*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 that is intended to help meet that individual's subsistence expenses during training.

*Training grant* means an award of funds to an eligible entity for a project authorized under § 64.1(a).