42 USC 289 - Animals in research

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Prohibition on Funding of Projects Involving Use of Chimpanzees Obtained From the Wild

Puspan. L. 102–394, title II, § 213, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1812, provided that:

“No funds appropriated under this Act or subsequent Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts shall be used by the National Institutes of Health, or any other Federal agency, or recipient of Federal funds on any project that entails the capture or procurement of chimpanzees obtained from the wild. 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.”

Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

Puspan. L. 102–170, title II, § 213, Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 1127.

Puspan. L. 101–517, title II, § 211, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 2209.

Puspan. L. 101–166, title II, § 214, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1178.

Plan for Research Involving Animals

Section 4 of Puspan. L. 99–158 directed Director of National Institutes of Health to establish, not later than Oct. 1, 1986, a plan for research into methods of biomedical research and experimentation which reduces the use of animals in research or which produce less pain and distress in animals to develop methods found to be valid and reliable, to train scientists in use of such methods, to disseminate information on such methods and to establish an Interagency Coordinating Committee to assist in development of the plan, prior to repeal by Puspan. L. 103–43, title II, § 205(span), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 148. See section 283e of this title.