Pub. L. 100-436, tit. II, sec. 218

Sec. 218. (a) (1) In enacting this section Congress hereby— (A) recognizes the national and international legal protection granted chimpanzees under the Endangered Species Act and the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species, to which the United States is a signatory, and also the World Health Organization’s Policy Statement on Use of Primates for Biomedical Purposes, all of which acknowledges the threatened or endangered status of the chimpanzee; and (B) acknowledges that substantial public monies are already being expended on a National Chimpanzee Breeding and Research Program in the United States. (2) No funds appropriated under this Act or any other provisions of law shall be used by the National Institutes of Health, or any 102 STAT. 1701other Federal agency, or recipient of Federal funds and be expended on any project that entails the capture or procurement of chimpanzees obtained from the wild. (3) For purposes of this section, the term “recipient of Federal funds” includes private citizens, corporations, or other research institutions located outside of the United States that are recipients of Federal funds.