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  • In general.—The term "private nonprofit facility" means private nonprofit educational (without regard to the religious character of the facility), center-based childcare,

  • The term “private nonprofit organization” means— (A) any incorporated private institution or foundation— (i) no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any membe

  • In this section, the term “private payor” means the following: (A) A health insurance issuer and a group health plan (as such terms are defined in section 300gg–91 of this title ).

  • The term “private person” means— (A) any individual who is a citizen or national of the United States; and (B) any corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity orga

  • The term "private prisoner transport company" means any entity, other than the United States, a State, or an inferior political subdivision of a State, which engages in t

  • As used in subsection (a), the term “private property” means all property which is not owned by a department, agency, or instrumentality of— (A) the United States, or (B) the State

  • Private provider of public transportation by vanpool.—The term "private provider of public transportation by vanpool" means a private entity providing vanpool services in

  • Private recipient of government assistance.—The term "private recipient of government assistance" means any person (other than a person described in subparagraph (A)) who

  • The term “private sector” means all persons or entities in the United States, including individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, and educational and nonprofit institu

  • The term "private sector entity"— (A) means an entity that is not a public sector entity; and (B) does not include— (i) the Federal Government; (ii) any Federal agency; o

  • The term "private-sector organization" means— (A) a for-profit organization; or (B) a not-for-profit organization.

  • The term "private-sector participant" means an employee of a private-sector entity who is participating in the fellowship under this section.

  • The term "private security officer"— (A) means an individual other than an employee of a Federal, State, or local government, whose primary duty is to perform security se

  • the term “private settlement agreement” means an agreement entered into among the parties that is not subject to judicial enforcement other than the reinstatement of the civil proc

  • “private settlement lands” means approximately nine hundred acres of privately held land outlined in red in the map marked “Exhibit A” attached to the Settlement Agreement that are

  • the term “private viewing” means the viewing for private use in an individual's dwelling unit by means of equipment, owned or operated by such individual, capable of receiving sate

  • The term “private voluntary organization” means a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization (in the case of a United States organization, an organization that is exempt from Fed

  • The term “privatization” means the transfer of ownership of the Corporation to private investors.

  • The term “privatization date” means the date on which 100 percent of the ownership of the Corporation has been transferred to private investors.

  • The term “privilege” includes any work-product, attorney-client, or other privilege recognized under Federal or State law. / the term “privilege” includes any work-product privileg

  • The term “privileged belligerent” means an individual belonging to one of the eight categories enumerated in Article 4 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisone

  • The term “prize competition” means the competition for the award of the Genius Prize for Save Our Seas Innovations established under section 1972 of this title . / The term "p

  • Any judge of the United States or of a State court of record, or any United States magistrate judge, may, within his territorial jurisdiction, and upon proper oath or affirmation s

  • “probation” means any form of a sentence under which the offender is permitted to remain at liberty under supervision and subject to conditions for the breach of which a penalty of

  • The term “probe-start metal halide ballast” means a ballast that— (A) starts a probe-start metal halide lamp that contains a third starting electrode (probe) in the arc tube; and (

  • For purposes of this subsection, the term “procedural disapproval resolution” means a resolution of either House of the Congress, the sole matter after the resolving clause of whic

  • In this subsection, the term “procedure rooms” includes rooms in which catheterizations, angiographies, angiograms, and endoscopies are performed, except such term shall not includ

  • The term “proceeding” includes an investigation. / Proceedings.—The term "proceeding" includes an investigation. / The term “proceeding” includes an investigation. / The

  • “proceeding before an agency of the United States” means any proceeding before such an agency with respect to which it is authorized to issue subpenas and to take testimony or rece

  • the term “proceeds” means any property derived from or obtained or retained, directly or indirectly, through some form of unlawful activity, including the gross receipts of such ac

  • The term “process” means to shell, clean, dry, and prepare popcorn for the market, but does not include packaging popcorn for the market without also engaging in another activity d

  • The term “processed” means slaughtered, canned, salted, stuffed, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. / The term "processed" means the process

  • The term “processed food” means any food other than a raw agricultural commodity and includes any raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to processing, such as canning, c

  • The term “processed wheat” means the wheat-derived content of any substance (such as cake mix or flour) produced for use as an ingredient of an end product by changing wheat grown

  • The term “process for the advisory review of prescription drug advertising” means the activities necessary to review and provide advisory comments on DTC advertisements prior to pu

  • The term "process for the review of abbreviated applications for generic new animal drugs" means the following activities of the Secretary with respect to the review of a

  • The term “process for the review of animal drug applications” means the following activities of the Secretary with respect to the review of animal drug applications, supplemental a

  • The term “process for the review of biosimilar biological product applications” means the following activities of the Secretary with respect to the review of submissions in connect

  • The term “process for the review of device applications” means the following activities of the Secretary with respect to the review of premarket applications, premarket reports, su

  • The term “process for the review of human drug applications” means the following activities of the Secretary with respect to the review of human drug applications and supplements:

  • In case of wheat, rye, barley and corn, the term “processing” means the milling or other processing (except cleaning and drying) of wheat, rye, barley or corn for market, including

  • The term “processing site” means— (A) any site, including the mill, containing residual radioactive materials at which all or substantially all of the uranium was produced for sale

  • The Governor of a State, or the governing body of an affected Indian tribe, notified of a site identification under section 10193 of this title shall have the right to participate

  • The term “processor” means any person engaged in the business of obtaining livestock or poultry for the purpose of slaughtering the livestock or poultry. / The term “processor” mea

  • In this subtitle, the term “procurement” includes all stages of the process of acquiring property or services, beginning with the process for determining a need for property or ser

  • The term “procurement action” includes the following actions: (A) Entry into a contract or any other form of agreement. (B) Issuance of a task order, delivery order, or military in

  • The term “procurement item” means any device, good, substance, material, product, or other item whether real or personal property which is the subject of any purchase, barter, or o

  • The term “procurement program” means a program for which funds for procurement are authorized to be appropriated in a fiscal year. / The term “procurement program” means a program

  • In this subtitle, the term “procurement system” means the integration of the procurement process, the professional development of procurement personnel, and the management structur

  • The term "procurement unit cost" has the meaning provided in section 2432(a)(2) of this title. / The term “procurement unit cost” has the meaning provided in section 4351

  • In this subsection, the term “procuring agency” means— (A) any Federal agency that is using Federal funds for procurement; or (B) a person that is a party to a contract with any Fe

  • the term “produce” includes alter, authenticate, or assemble; / the term “produce” includes design, alter, authenticate, duplicate, or assemble; / The term “produce” includes const

  • The term “produced” includes manufactured. / For purposes of this part, the term “produced” includes created, fabricated, manufactured, extracted, processed, cured, or aged. / “Pro

  • Except as otherwise provided for in this section, for purposes of this section the term “produced or utilized in commercial quantities” means the completion of a well producing geo

  • The term "produced water" means water produced from an oil or gas well bore that is not a fluid prepared at, or transported to, the well site to resolve a specific oil or

  • The term “producer” means the person who manufactures, prepares, compounds, propagates, or processes any pesticide or device or active ingredient used in producing a pesticide. The

  • The term “producer-handler” means any person who is both a producer and handler of limes.

  • The term “producer information” means activities designed to provide producers, feeders, and importers with information relating to production or marketing efficiencies or developm

  • The term “producer of quota tobacco” means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shared in the risk of producing tobacco on a farm where tobacco was produced o

  • The term “producer-packer” means any person who is both a producer and handler of honey.

  • The term “producer storage program” means the producer storage program provided for under section 1445e 1 of this title.

  • The term “producer that is a qualified handler” means an entity that— (I) is engaged— (aa) in the domestic production, for sale in commerce, of cut flowers or cut greens and that o

  • the term "produces"— (A) means— (i) actually filming, videotaping, photographing, creating a picture, digital image, or digitally- or computer-manipulated image of an act

  • “producing” means producing, directing, manufacturing, issuing, publishing, or advertising;

  • The term “producing State” means a coastal State that has a coastal seaward boundary within 200 nautical miles of the geographic center of a leased tract within any area of the out

  • The term “product” means any article of wearing apparel or interior furnishing. / The term “product” means any natural or manufactured item. / The term “product” means a drug, devi

  • For purposes of this section, the term “product area research” includes (notwithstanding any provision to the contrary) the research, development and experimental costs, losses, ex

  • “product carrier” means a tanker engaged in the trade of carrying oil except crude oil.

  • The term "product costs" means costs that are associated with the production of a good, including the value of materials, direct labor costs, and direct overhead.

  • Exclusion of products covered by postal monopoly.—A product covered by the postal monopoly shall not be subject to transfer under this section from the market-dominant category of

  • The term "product identifier" means a standardized graphic that includes, in both human-readable form and on a machine-readable data carrier that conforms to the standard

  • For purposes of this paragraph, the term “product information” includes— (A) information describing the drug or device (such as drug class, device description, and features); (B) i

  • “competitive product” or “product in the competitive category of mail” means a product subject to subchapter II of chapter 36; and

  • “market-dominant product” or “product in the market-dominant category of mail” means a product subject to subchapter I of chapter 36;

  • The term “production” means growing, mining, harvesting, fishing, trapping, hunting, manufacturing, processing, or assembling a good. / The term “production” means growing, mining,

  • The term "production baseline" means the baseline established for the production of regulated substances under subsection (e)(1)(B).

  • Production-Certification Related Service Defined.—In this section, the term "production-certification related service" has the meaning given that term in appendix C of pa

  • The term “production expenditures” means the costs (whether or not incurred during the production period) required to be capitalized under subsection (a) with respect to the proper

  • The term "production facility" means (1) any equipment or device determined by rule of the Commission to be capable of the production of special nuclear material in such

  • The terms “contract” and “production flexibility contract” mean a production flexibility contract entered into under section 7211 of this title.

  • The term “production history” means the production history determined for a participating dairy operation under subsection (a) or (b) of section 9055 of this title .

  • “production inspection primary inspection agency” means a State agency or private organization that has been approved by the Secretary to evaluate the ability of manufactured home

  • The term “production payment” means a term overriding royalty satisfiable in cash or in kind— (A) contingent on the production of a liquid or gaseous hydrocarbon from particular re

  • The term "production period" means, when used with respect to any property, the period— (i) beginning on the date on which production of the property begins, and (ii) exc

  • The term “productive activity” means either a group or individual activity that is designed to allow prisoners determined as having a minimum or low risk of recidivating to remain

  • The term “productivity” means— (A) engagement in income-producing work that is measured by increased income, improved employment status, or job advancement; or (B) engagement in wo

  • the terms “Indian product” and “product of a particular Indian tribe or Indian arts and crafts organization” has the meaning given such term in regulations which may be promulgated

  • The term “product of discovery” includes without limitation the original or duplicate of any deposition, interrogatory, document, thing, result of the inspection of land or other p

  • the term “product of smelting or refining” means metals or metal-bearing materials resulting directly from smelting or refining processes, but does not include metal-bearing ores o

  • The term "product or material" means an article, material, or supply brought to the site by the recipient for incorporation into the building, work, or project. The term

  • The term “products” or “petroleum products” includes any article produced or derived in whole or in part from petroleum or any product thereof by refining, processing, manufacturin

  • The term “products of spent fowl” means commercial products produced from spent fowl.

  • Product support.—The term "product support" means the package of support functions required to field and maintain the readiness and operational capability of covered syst

  • Product support arrangement.—The term "product support arrangement" means a contract, task order, or any type of other contractual arrangement, or any type of agreement o

  • Product support integrator.—The term “product support integrator” means an entity within the Federal Government or outside the Federal Government charged with integrating all sourc

  • Product support provider.—The term “product support provider” means an entity that provides product support functions. The term includes an entity within the Department of Defense,

  • Product tank vessel.—The term "product tank vessel" means a double hulled tank vessel capable of carrying simultaneously more than 2 separated grades of refined petroleum

  • The term “profession” shall include but not be limited to architects, engineers, lawyers, physicians, surgeons, and teachers in elementary or secondary schools, colleges, academies

  • For purposes of this subsection, the term "professional" means an individual who is licensed by an official State authority to practice in the field of cosmetology, nail

  • the term “professional affiliation” shall mean staff privileges, medical staff membership, employment or contractual relationship, partnership or ownership interest, academic appoi