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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102

§290 National Institutes of Health Management Fund; Establishment; Advancements; Availability; Final Adjustments of Advances

Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part H — General Provisions › § 290

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

NIH must keep a Management Fund for costs covered by two or more appropriations when those costs can’t be split easily. Each year the Director may transfer reasonable estimates into the fund and set rules for spending it, including running staff cafeterias that charge enough to cover costs and deposit the proceeds into the fund. Money may be used only in the fiscal year transferred, and final cost settlements should be made with the original accounts when possible.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §290

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For the purpose of facilitating the economical and efficient conduct of operations in the National Institutes of Health which are financed by two or more appropriations where the costs of operation are not readily susceptible of distribution as charges to such appropriations, there is established the National Institutes of Health Management Fund. Such amounts as the Director of the National Institutes of Health may determine to represent a reasonable distribution of estimated costs among the various appropriations involved may be advanced each year to this fund and shall be available for expenditure for such costs under such regulations as may be prescribed by said Director, including the operation of facilities for the sale of meals to employees and others at rates to be determined by said Director to be sufficient to cover the reasonable value of the meals served and the proceeds thereof shall be deposited to the credit of this fund: Provided, That funds advanced to this fund shall be available only in the fiscal year in which they are advanced: Provided further, That final adjustments of advances in accordance with actual costs shall be effected wherever practicable with the appropriations from which such funds are advanced.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1958, and not as a part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1961—Pub. L. 87–290 substituted “reasonable value of the meals served” for “cost of such operation”.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 290

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102