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 PUBLIC LAW 103-446—NOV. 2, 1994 108 STAT. 4667 "(b) The Director shall be a noncareer appointee in the Senior Executive Service. The Director shall be appointed for a term of six years. "(c) The Director reports directly to the Secretary or the Deputy Secretary concerning the activities of the Center. respect to veterans who are women: "(1) Serve as principal adviser to the Secretary on the adoption and implementation of policies and programs affecting veterans who are women. "(2) Make recommendations to the Secretary, the Under Secretary for Health, the Under Secretary for Benefits, and other Department officials for the establishment or improvement of programs in the Department for which veterans who are women are eligible. "(3) Promote the use of benefits authorized by this title by veterans who are women and the conduct of outreach activities to veterans who are women, in conjunction with outreach activities carried out under chapter 77 of this title. "(4) Disseminate} information and serve as a resource center for the exchange of information regsirding innovative and successful programs which improve the services available to veterans who are women. "(5) Conduct and sponsor appropriate social and demographic research on the needs of veterans who are women ana the extent to which programs authorized under this title meet the needs of those veterans, without regard to any law concerning the collection of information from the public. "(6) Analyze and evaluate complaints made by or on behalf of veterans who are women about the adequacy and timeUness of services provided by the Department and advise the appropriate official of the Department of the results of such analysis or evaluation. "(7) Consult with, and provide assistance and information to, officials responsible for administering Federal, State, local, and private programs that assist veterans, to encoiirage those officials to adopt poUcies which promote the use of those programs by veterans who are women. "(8) Advise the Secretary when laws or poUcies have the effect of discoiu-aging the use of benefits by veterans who are women. "(9) Publicize the results of medical research which are of particular significance to veterans who are women. "(10) Advise the Secretary and other appropriate officials on the effectiveness of the Department's efforts to accomplish the goals of section 492B of the Public Health Service Act (relating to the inclusion of women and minorities in clinical research) and of particular health conditions affecting women's health which should be studied as part of the Department's medical research program and promote cooperation between the Department and other sponsors of medical research of potential benefit to veterans who are women. "(11) Provide support and administrative services to the Advisory Committee on Women Veterans established under section 542 of this title. "(12) Perform such other duties consistent with this section as the Secretary shall prescribe.
 * (d) The Director shall perform the following functions with

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