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106 STAT. 2032 PUBLIC LAW 102-408—OCT. 13, 1992 42 USC 293d. "SEC. 740. EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE REGARDING UNDERGRADU* Minorities. ATES. "(a) IN GENERAL.— "(1) AUTHORITY FOR GRANTS.— For the purpose of assisting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, as determined in accordance with criteria prescribed by the Secretary, to undertake education to enter a health profession, the Secretary may make grants to and enter into contracts with schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic, and pediatric medicine, public and nonprofit private schools which offer graduate programs in clinical psychology, and other public or private nonprofit health or educational entities to assist in meeting the costs described in paragraph (2). "(2) AUTHORIZED EXPENDITURES.— ^A grant or contract under paragraph (1) may be used by the health or educational entity to meet the cost OP— "(A) identifying, recruiting, and selecting individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, as so determined, for education and training in a health profession, "(B) facilitating the entry of such individuals into such a school, "(C) providing counseling or other services designed to assist such individuals to complete successfully their education at such a school, "(D) providing, for a period prior to the entry of such individuals into the regular course of education of such a school, preliminary education designed to assist them to complete successfully such regular course of education at such a school, or referring such individuals to institutions providing such preliminary education, "(E) publicizing existing sources of financial aid available to students in the education program of such a school or who are undertaking training necessary to qualify them to enroll in such a program, "(F) paying such scholarships as the Secretary may determine for such individuals for any period of health professions education at a school of medicine, osteopathic medicine, or dentistry, "(G) paying such stipends as the Secretary may approve for such individuals for any period of education in student-enhancement programs (other than regular courses) at any school described in subsection (a)(l), except that such a stipend may not be provided to an individual for more than 12 months, and such a stipend shall be in an amount of $40 per day (notwithstanmng any other provision of law regarding the amount of stipendfs). The term 'regular course of education of such a school* as used in subparagraph (D) includes a graduate program in clinical psychology. " (b) REQUIREMENTS REGARDING ENROLLMENT; PRIORITY IN MAK- ING GRANTS.— " (1) INCREASED ENROLLMENT OF INDIVIDUALS FROM DIS- ADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS. — Schools of medicine, osteopathic medicine, public health, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy, allied health, chiropractic, podiatric medicine