CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER.

SEC. 1503. CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER. Subpart 1 of part E of title IV of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by section 1502 of this Act, is amended by adding at the end the following section: “construction of regional centers for research on primates “Sec. 481B. (a) With respect to activities carried out by the National Center for Research Resources to support regional centers for research on primates, the Director of NIH shall, for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1996, reserve from the amounts appropriated under section 481A(h) $5,000,000 for the purpose of making awards of grants and contracts to public or nonprofit private entities to construct, renovate, or otherwise improve such regional centers. The reservation of such amounts for any fiscal year is subject to the availability of qualified applicants for such awards. “(b) The Director of NIH may not make a grant or enter into a contract under subsection (a) unless the applicant for such assistance agrees, with respect to the costs to be incurred by the applicant in carrying out the purpose described in such subsection, to make available (directly or through donations from public or private entities) non-Federal contributions in cash toward such costs in an amount equal to not less than $1 for each $4 of Federal funds provided in such assistance.”.