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106 STAT. 752 PUBLIC LAW 102-325—JULY 23, 1992 "(4) any agency, public authority, or other instrumentality of any State, established for the purpose of providing or financing housing or other educational facilities for students or faculty of any educational institution included in paragraph (1), but nothing in this paragraph shall require an institution included in paragraph (1) to obtain loans or grants through any instrumentality included in this paragraph; and "(5) any nonprofit student housing cooperative corporation established for the purpose of providfing housing for students or students and faculty of any institution included in paragraph (1). In the case of any loan made under section 731 (as such section was in effect prior to the date of enactment of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992) to a corporation described in paragraph (3) which was not established by the institution or institutions for whose students or students and faculty it would provide housing, or to a student housing cooperative corporation described in paragraph (5), and in the case of any loan which is obtained from other sources by such a corporation, the Secretary shall require that the note securing such loan be cosigned by such institution (or by any one or more of such institutions). Where the law of any State in effect on the date of enactment of the Housing Act of 1964 prevents the institution or institutions, for whose students or students and faculty housing is to be provided, from cosigning the note, the Secretary shall require the corporation and the proposed prmect to be approved by such institution (or by any one or more of such institutions) in lieu of such cosigning. " (c) U^fDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE ACADEMIC FACILITIES. — "(1) IN GENERAL.— Except as provided in paragraph (2), the term 'undergraduate and graduate academic facilities' means structures suitable for use as classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and related facilities, the primary purpose of which is the instruction of students pursuing at least a 2-year program acceptable for full credit toward a baccalaureate degree, or for administration of the educational programs serving such students, of an institution of higher education, and maintenance, storage, or utility facilities essential to operation of the foregoing facilities, as well as infirmaries or other facilities designed to provide primarily for outpatient care of student and instructional personnel. Plans for such facilities shall be in compliance with such standards as the Secretary may prescribe or approve in order to ensure that projects assisted with the use of Federal funds under this part shall be, to the extent appropriate in view of the uses to be made of the facilities, accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities. "(2) EXCEPTIONS.— The term 'undergraduate and graduate academic facilities' shall not include (A) any facility intended primarily for events for which admission is to be charged to the general public, (B) any gymnasium or other facility specially designed for athletic or recreational activities, other than for an academic course in physical education or where the Secretary finds that the physical integration of such facilities with other undergraduate academic facilities included under this part is required to carry out the objectives of this part, (C) any facility used or to be used for sectarian instruction or as a place for religious worship, or (D) any facility which