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 124 STAT. 2793 PUBLIC LAW 111–264—OCT. 8, 2010 the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa- tives, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services a report reviewing studies, demonstration programs, and outreach efforts for the purpose of increasing cord blood unit donation and collection for the National Cord Blood Inventory to ensure a high-quality and genetically diverse inventory of cord blood units. (2) CONTENTS.—The report described in paragraph (1) shall include a review of such studies, demonstration programs, and outreach efforts under section 2 of the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 274k note) (as amended by this Act) and section 379 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 274k) (as amended by this Act), including— (A) a description of the challenges and barriers to expanding the number of cord blood unit collection sites, including cost, the cash flow requirements and operations of awarding contracts, the methods by which funds are distributed through contracts, the impact of regulatory and administrative requirements, and the capacity of cord blood banks to maintain high-quality units; (B) remote collection or other innovative technological advances that could be used to collect cord blood units; (C) appropriate methods for improving provider edu- cation about collecting cord blood units for the national inventory and participation in such collection activities; (D) estimates of the number of cord blood unit collec- tion sites necessary to meet the outstanding national inven- tory need and the characteristics of such collection sites that would help increase the genetic diversity and enhance the quality of cord blood units collected; (E) best practices for establishing and sustaining part- nerships for cord blood unit collection at medical facilities with a high number of minority births; (F) potential and proven incentives to encourage hos- pitals to become cord blood unit collection sites and partner with cord blood banks participating in the National Cord Blood Inventory under section 2 of the Stem Cell Thera- peutic and Research Act of 2005 and to assist cord blood banks in expanding the number of cord blood unit collection sites with which such cord blood banks partner; (G) recommendations about methods cord blood banks and collection sites could use to lower costs and improve efficiency of cord blood unit collection without decreasing the quality of the cord blood units collected; and (H) a description of the methods used prior to the date of enactment of this Act to distribute funds to cord blood banks and recommendations for how to improve such methods to encourage the efficient collection of high-quality and diverse cord blood units, consistent with the require- ments of the C.W. Bill Young Cell Transplantation Program and the National Cord Blood Inventory program under section 2 of the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005. Review.