---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 282b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "282b"
heading: "Electronic coding of grants and activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/282b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part A — National Institutes of Health"
---

# §282b. Electronic coding of grants and activities


The [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH, shall establish an electronic system to uniformly code research grants and activities of the Office of the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) and of all the national research institutes and national centers. The electronic system shall be searchable by a variety of codes, such as the type of research grant, the research entity managing the grant, and the public health area of interest. When permissible, the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c), acting through the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH, shall provide information on relevant literature and patents that are associated with research activities of the National Institutes of Health.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 402B, as added Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 104(a)(3), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3689.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as an Effective Date of 2007 Amendment note under section 281 of this title.