1. Continued Salary Limitation (Section 205)
2. Anti-Lobbying (Section 503)
3. Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products (Section 506)
4. Acknowledgment of Federal Funding (Section 507)
5. Continued Ban on Funding of Human Embryo Research (Section 512)
6. ROTC Access and Federal Military Recruiting on Campus (Section 514)

1. Continued Salary Limitation (Section 205)
None of the FY 1997 appropriated funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shall be used to pay the salary of an individual, through grant, cooperative agreement, or contract, at a rate in excess of $125,000 per year. The information contained in NIH Guide Vol. 24, No.2, January 20, 1995, remains in effect for FY 1997 awards. Applications and proposals with direct salaries for individuals in excess of $125,000 per year will be adjusted in accordance with the legislative salary limitation.
2. Anti-Lobbying (Section 503)
Language in this Act contains Anti-Lobbying provisions prohibiting the use of appropriated funds to pay the salary or expenses of any grant, cooperative agreement, or contract recipient or agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed to influence legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress or any State legislature. The FY 1997 Appropriations Act specifically extends the prohibition on the use of grant, cooperative agreement and contract funds for lobbying any State legislature.
3. Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products (Section 506)
It continues to be the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with grant, cooperative agreement, or contract funds should be American-made.
4. Acknowledgement of Federal Funding (Section 507)
Section 507 mandates that all grantees funded with Federal dollars, in whole or in part, acknowledge Federal funding when issuing statements, press releases, requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other documents. Grantees are required to state (1) the percentage and dollar amounts of the total program or project costs financed with Federal money, and (2) the percentage and dollar amount of the total costs financed by nongovernmental sources.

This requirement is in addition to the continuing requirement to provide an acknowledgment of support and disclaimer on any publication reporting the results of a grant supported activity (PHS GPS chapter 8: Post Award Admistration -- Publications).

5. Continued Ban on Funding of Human Embryo Research (Section 512)
The FY 1997 Appropriations Act contains language identical to that contained in the FY 1996 Balanced Budget Downpayment Acts I (P.L. 104-99) that prohibits NIH from using appropriated funds to support human embryo research. Grant, cooperative agreement and contract funds may not be used for (1) the creation of a human embryo or embyos for research purposes; or (2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero under 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2) and Section 498(b) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)). The term �human embryo or embryos� include any organism, not protected as a human subject under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the Act, that is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other means from one or more human gametes.
6. ROTC Access and Federal Military Recruiting on Campus (Section 514)
Section 514 of the Appropriations Act prohibits NIH from providing grant, cooperative agreement and contract funds to educational institutions that the Secretary of Defense determines have a policy or practice (regardless of when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect prevents (1) the maintaining, establishing, or operation of a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at the covered education entity; or (2) a student at the covered educational entity from enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another institution of higher education.

Under the same section, NIH funding is denied to educational institutions that have a policy or practice that prohibits or prevents (1) entry to campuses, or access to students (who are 17 years of age or older) on campuses, for purposes of Federal military recruiting; or (2) access by military recruiters for purposes of Federal military recruiting to information pertaining to students (who are 17 years of age or older) enrolled at the covered educational entity.

For more information concerning this notice or other policies relating to grants or contracts, please refer to the OER portion of the NIH Homepage. Appropriate links to related regulations and policies have been provided with the copy of this notice published on the NIH Homepage. If additional questions remain, please contact your awarding grants or contracts management office in the NIH Institutes and Centers.