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  • For purposes of this subsection, the term “P” means the percentage that is the arithmetic mean of the percentage determined under subparagraph (A) and the percentage determined und

  • The term “P–16 education” means the educational system from preschool through the conferring of a baccalaureate degree.

  • For purposes of this section, the term “PACE demonstration waiver program” means a demonstration program under either of the following sections (as in effect before the date of the

  • For purposes of this section, the term “PACE program” means a program of all-inclusive care for the elderly that meets the following requirements: (A) The entity operating the prog

  • For purposes of this section, the term “PACE program agreement” means, with respect to a PACE provider, an agreement, consistent with this section, section 1396u–4 of this title (i

  • For purposes of this section, the term "PACE program eligible individual" means, with respect to a PACE program, an individual who— (A) is 55 years of age or older; (B) s

  • For purposes of this section, the term “PACE protocol” means the Protocol for the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), as published by On Lok, Inc., as of April 14

  • For purposes of this section, the term “PACE provider” means an entity that— (i) subject to subparagraph (B), is (or is a distinct part of) a public entity or a private, nonprofit

  • The term “Pacific Insular Area” means American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Island,

  • The term “Pacific Island and Asian Americans” means Americans having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, or the Pacific

  • The term “Pacific Island Party” means a Pacific Island nation which is a party to the Treaty.

  • Subject to the provisions of section 835 l of this title, that portion of the construction cost of any project hereafter authorized to be constructed, operated, and maintained by t

  • The term "Pacific Region" means any Federal or State water— (I) adjacent to the State of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, or Washington; and (II) extending from shore.

  • “Package” means any container of naval stores, and includes barrel, tank, tank car, or other receptacle. / The term “package” means a pack, box, carton, or container of any kind in

  • The term “packaged boiler” means a boiler that is shipped complete with heating equipment, mechanical draft equipment, and automatic controls; usually shipped in one or more sectio

  • The term “packaged terminal air conditioner” means a wall sleeve and a separate unencased combination of heating and cooling assemblies specified by the builder and intended for mo

  • The term “packaged terminal heat pump” means a packaged terminal air conditioner that utilizes reverse cycle refrigeration as its prime heat source and should have supplementary he

  • If the Commission determines that an art material in a container equal to or smaller than one fluid ounce (30 ml) (if the product is sold by volume) or one ounce net weight (28 g)

  • The term “packer” means any person engaged in the business of buying cattle in commerce for purposes of slaughter, of manufacturing or preparing meats or meat food products from ca

  • The term “packer-owned cattle” means cattle that a packer owns for at least 14 days immediately before slaughter.

  • The term “packer-owned swine” means swine that a packer (including a subsidiary or affiliate of the packer) owns for at least 14 days immediately before slaughter.

  • The term “packer-sold swine” means the swine that are— (A) owned by a packer (including a subsidiary or affiliate of the packer) for more than 14 days immediately before sale for s

  • The term “packing costs” means the cost of all containers and coverings of whatever nature and of packing, whether for labor or materials, used in placing merchandise in condition,

  • The term “packing materials and containers for shipment” means the goods used to protect a good during its transportation and does not include the packaging materials and container

  • PADDdefined inU.S. Code

    In this subparagraph the term “PADD” means a Petroleum Administration for Defense District.

  • pagedefined inU.S. Code

    “page” means a page of the House of Representatives, but such term does not include a full time, permanent employee of the House of Representatives with supervisory responsibility

  • “paid-in and unimpaired capital and surplus” means the balance of the paid-in share accounts and deposits as of a given date, less any loss that may have been incurred for which th

  • In this subsection, the term “paid lunch” means a reimbursable lunch served to students who are not certified to receive free or reduced price meals.

  • The term “Palestinian Authority” means the interim Palestinian administrative organization that governs part of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip (or any successor Palestinia

  • The term “Panama Canal Authority” means the entity created by the Republic of Panama to succeed the Panama Canal Commission as of the Canal Transfer Date.

  • “Panama Canal service” means— (i) service as an employee of the Canal Zone Government, the Panama Canal Company, or the Panama Canal Commission; or (ii) service at a permanent duty

  • The term “Panama TPA certification of origin” means the certification established under article 4.15 of the United States–Panama Trade Promotion Agreement that a good qualifies as

  • “Panel” means the Federal Service Impasses Panel described in section 7119(c) of this title ; / “Panel” means any of the Panels established by the Treaty; / The term “Panel” means

  • The term “panel-track supplement” means a supplement to an approved premarket application or premarket report under section 360e of this title that requests a significant change in

  • The term “Papa Ola Lokahi” means an organization composed of— (i) E Ola Mau; (ii) the Office of Hawaiian Affairs of the State of Hawaii; (iii) Alu Like Inc.; (iv) the University of

  • The term “paperback” means any book which has a flexible outer cover and the pages of which are affixed directly to such outer cover. Such term does not include a magazine.

  • The term "parachute payment" means any payment in the nature of compensation to (or for the benefit of) a disqualified individual if— (i) such payment is contingent on a

  • The term “paraprofessional”, also known as a “paraeducator”, includes an education assistant and instructional assistant.

  • The term “parallel financing” means financing provided by any combination of official development assistance, official export credits, and private commercial credit which is not in

  • The term “paraplegia” means the complete and irreversible paralysis of both lower limbs.

  • The term “paraprofessional” has the meaning given the term in section 7801 of this title . / The term “paraprofessional” means an individual who is employed in a preschool, element

  • The term “paraprofessional child and adolescent mental health worker” means an individual who is not a mental or behavioral health service professional, but who works at the first

  • The term “parcel number 1” means the area, encompassing approximately 11,317 acres, bounded on the south by the Montana-Wyoming border, on the east by the 107th meridian, on the no

  • The term “parcel number 2” means the area, encompassing approximately 12,964 acres, bounded on the south by the extension to the west of the southern boundary of the Northern Cheye

  • The term “parcel number 3” means the area, encompassing approximately 2,469 acres, bounded on the south by the extension to the west of the northern boundary of the Northern Cheyen

  • The term “parcel number 4” means the area, encompassing approximately 9,415 acres, bounded on the south by the northern boundary of the Crow Indian Reservation, on the east by the

  • “parcel of highly fractionated Indian land” means a parcel of land that the Secretary, pursuant to authority under a provision of this chapter, determines to have, as evidenced by

  • the term “parent” means the biological parent of an employee or an individual who stood in loco parentis to an employee when the employee was a son or daughter; / “parent” includes

  • The term “parental involvement” means the participation of parents in regular, two-way, and meaningful communication involving student academic learning and other school activities

  • “parent corporation” has the meaning given such term by section 424(e). / For purposes of this part, the term “parent corporation” means any corporation (other than the employer co

  • the term “Parent Locator Service” means the service established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 653 of this title;

  • The term “parent organization” has the meaning given the term in section 1471(g) of this title . / In this section, the term "parent organization" means a private nonprof

  • The term “parents” means biological or adoptive parents or legal guardians, as determined by applicable State law.

  • For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term “parent-subsidiary controlled group” means any controlled group of corporations as defined in section 1563(a)(1), except that— (i) “more

  • The term “parent training and information center” means a center assisted under section 1471 or 1472 of this title.

  • “parimutuel” means any system whereby wagers with respect to the outcome of a horserace are placed with, or in, a wagering pool conducted by a person licensed or otherwise permitte

  • The term “park” means Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, as authorized and established by the Act of June 11, 1940 (54 Stat. 262; 16 U.S.C. 261 et seq.). / “Park” means the W

  • The term “parking surcharge regulation” means a regulation imposing or requiring the imposition of any tax, surcharge, fee, or other charge on parking spaces, or any other area use

  • “Park system resource” means any living or non-living resource that is located within the boundaries of a unit of the National Park System, except for resources owned by a non-Fede

  • “parole” means any form of release of an offender from imprisonment to the community by a releasing authority prior to the expiration of his sentence, subject to conditions imposed

  • The term “part” means a frame, assembly, component, appliance, engine, propeller, material, part, spare part, piece, section, or related integral or auxiliary equipment.

  • Part 121 air carrier.—The term “part 121 air carrier” means an air carrier to which part 121 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, applies.

  • Part 135 air carrier.—The term “part 135 air carrier” means an air carrier to which part 135 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, applies.

  • the term “part 1 violent crime” means murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault as reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for pu

  • For purposes of this section, the term “part 1 violent crimes” shall include severe forms of trafficking in persons (as defined in section 7102 of title 22 ). / The term “part 1 vi

  • The term “part B institution” means any historically Black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of Black Ame

  • The term “part B late enrollment premium increase” means any increase in a premium as a result of the application of subsection (b).

  • In this subsection, the term "part B rebatable drug" means a single source drug or biological (as defined in subparagraph (D) of subsection (c)(6)), including a biosimila

  • The term "part D eligible individual" means an individual who is entitled to benefits under part A or enrolled under part B (but not including an individual enrolled sole

  • The term “part D enrollee” means an individual who is enrolled in a part D plan.

  • The term "part D plan" means a prescription drug plan or an MA–PD plan (as defined for purposes of part D). / For purposes of this section and section 1395w–134 of this t

  • the term “partial-birth abortion” means an abortion in which the person performing the abortion— (A) deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the

  • The term "partial hospitalization services" means the items and services described in paragraph (2) prescribed by a physician for an individual determined (not less frequ

  • The term “partially exempt methanol or ethanol fuel” means any liquid at least 85 percent of which consists of methanol, ethanol, or other alcohol produced from natural gas.

  • The term “partially pooled account” means a part of an unemployment fund in which part of the fund all contributions thereto are mingled and undivided, and from which part of the f

  • The terms “tied aid credit” and “partially untied aid credit” mean any credit which— (A) has a grant element greater than zero percent, as determined by the Development Assistance

  • In this section, the term “partial mobilization” means the mobilization resulting from action by Congress or the President, under any law, to bring units of any reserve component,

  • For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “partial qualifying APM participant” means, with respect to a year, an eligible professional for whom the Secretary determines the minim

  • The term “partial separation” means, with respect to an individual who has not been totally separated, that he has had— (A) his hours of work reduced to 80 percent or less of his a

  • For purposes of this paragraph, the term “partial tax” means the partial tax imposed by subsection (a)(2) determined under this subsection without regard to this paragraph.

  • The term “partial withdrawal” means a partial withdrawal described in section 1385 of this title .

  • the term “participant” means an individual for whom an account has been established under section 8439 of this title; / The term “participant” shall have the meaning given that ter

  • As used in this subparagraph, the term “participate” or “participation” refers to multilender transactions, including syndications, assignments, loan participations, subparticipati

  • Participate actively in hostilities.—The term "participate actively in hostilities" means taking part in— (A) combat or military activities related to combat, including s

  • the term “participated” means an action taken as an officer or employee through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or other su

  • “participate in management”— (A) (i) means actually participating in the management or operational affairs of a vessel or facility; and (ii) does not include merely having the capa

  • In this subsection the term “participates in a noncontiguous domestic trade” means directly or indirectly owns, charters, or operates a vessel engaged in transportation of cargo be

  • “participating agency” means an agency described in section 5511(a)(3)(C) of this title ;

  • The term “participating county” means an eligible county that elects under section 7112(d) of this title to expend a portion of the Federal funds received under section 7112 of thi

  • The term "participating educational institution" means an educational institution that— (I) (aa) during the five-academic-year period occurring before an academic year du

  • The term "participating family" means an eligible family that is participating in the Family Self-Sufficiency program under this section.

  • the term "participating financial institution" means any financial institution that has entered into a participation agreement with a participating State in accordance wi

  • Participating fleet vessel.—The term "participating fleet vessel" means any vessel that— (A) on October 1, 2015— (i) meets the requirements of paragraph (1), (2), (3), or

  • the term “participating foreign countries” means those foreign countries which cooperate with the United States in carrying out the purposes of this section.

  • The term "participating hospital" means a hospital that has entered into a provider agreement under section 1395cc of this title.

  • “Participating institution” means each qualified institution in a State, which participates in the administration or execution of the State technical services program as provided b

  • The term “participating jurisdiction” means any State or unit of general local government that has been so designated in accordance with section 12746 of this title . / The term “p

  • The term “participating physician” refers, with respect to the furnishing of services, to a physician who at the time of furnishing the services is a participating physician (under

  • Any physician or supplier may voluntarily enter into an agreement with the Secretary to become a participating physician or supplier. For purposes of this section, the term “partic

  • The term “participating program” means a levee safety program developed by a State, regional district, or Indian tribe that includes the minimum components necessary for recognitio