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PUBLIC LAW 91-515-OCT. 30, 1970

PART I — A N N U A L KEPORT, NATIONAL AD^1S0R'r COUNCIL, E T C.

SEC. 280. Part A of title III of the Public Health Service Act is further amended by adding after section 310A thereof (as added by section 270 of this Act) the following new section: "Annual Report "310B. On or before January 1 of each year, the Secretary shall transmit to the Congress a report of the activities carried on under the provisions of title IX of this Act and sections 304, 305, 314(a), 314(b),_314(c), 314(d), and 314(e) of this title together with (1) an evaluation of the effectiveness of such activities in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the research, planning, and delivery of health services in carrying out the purposes for which such provisions were enacted, (2) a statement of the relationship between Federal financing and financing from other sources of the activities undertaken pursuant to such provisions (including the possibilities for more efficient support of such activities through use of alternate sources of financing after an initial period of support under such provisions), and (3) such recommendations with respect to such provisions as he deems appropriate." SEC. 281. Title III of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding after section 315 thereof the following new section: " N A T I O N A L ADVISORY COUNCIL O N COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAMS

HEALTH

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PLANNING

"SEC. 316. (a) The Secretary shall appoint, without regard to the civil service laws, a National Advisory Council on Comprehensive Health Planning Programs. The Council shall consist of the Secretary or his designee, who shall be the chainnan, and sixteen members, not otherwise in the regular full-time employ of the United States, who are (1) leaders in the fields of the fundamental sciences, the medical sciences, or the organization, delivery, and financing of health care, (2) officials in State and areawide health planning agencies, (3) leaders in health care administration, or State or community or other public affairs, who are State or local officials, or (4) representatives of consumers of health care. A t least six of the appointed members shall be individuals representing the consumers of health care, one shall be an official of a State health planning agency, one shall be an official of an areawide health planning agency, and one shall be a member of the National Advisory Council on Regional Medical Programs. "(b) Each appointed member of the Council shall hold office for a term of four years, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed shall be appointed for the remainder of such term, and except that the terms of office of the members first taking office shall expire, as designated by the Secretary at the time of appointment, four at the end of the first year, four at the end of the second year, four at the end of the third year, and four at the end of the fourth year after the date of appointment. An appointed member shall not be eligible to serve continuously for more than two terms. "(c) Appointed members of the Council, while attending meetings or conferences thereof or otherwise serving on the business of the Council, shall be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but at rates not exceeding the daily equivalent of the rate specified at the time of service for GS-18 of the general schedule,

Appointment, Members.

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