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Reports to Administrator and Congress.

Report to cong r e s s i o n a l committees.

National Academy of S c i e n c e s, cooperation.

78 Stat. 409; 50 Stat. 1368.

81 Stat. 6 3 1; 84 Stat. 1092.

Supra.

PUBLIC LAW 93-82-AUG. 2, 1973

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directed to conclude negotiations for an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences under which such Academy (utilizing its full resources and expertise) will conduct an extensive review and appraisal of personnel and other resource requirements in Veterans' Administration hospitals, clinics, and other medical facilities to determine a basis for the optimum numbers and categories of such personnel and other resources needed to insure the provision to eligible veterans of high quality care in all hospital, medical, domiciliary, and nursing home facilities. Such agreement shall provide that (A) at the earliest feasible date interim reports and the final report will be submitted by the National Academy of Sciences to the Administrator, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and (B) the final report will be submitted no later than twenty-four months after the date of the agreement except that the Administrator, in consultation with the Chief Medical Director and after consultation with the Houss and Senate Committees on Veterans' Affairs, may permit an extension up to twelve additional months. "(2) Within ninety days after the submission of the final report described in subsection (a) of this section, the Administrator shall submit to the Senate and House Committees on Veterans' Affairs a detailed report of his views on the National Academy of Sciences' findings and recommendations submitted in such report, including (A) the steps and timetable therefor (to be carried out in not less than three years) he proposes to take to implement such findings and recommendations and (B) any disagreements, and the reasons therefor, with respect to such findings and recommendations. "(3) The Administrator shall cooperate fully with the National Academy of Sciences, and make available to the Academy all such staff, information, records, and other assistance, and shall set aside for such purposes such sums, as are necessary to insure the success of the study.". SEC. 202. Section 4103(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended—• (1) by amending paragraph (4) to read as follows: "(4) Not to exceed eight Assistant Chief Medical Directors, who shall be appointed by the Administrator upon the recommendations of the Chief Medical Director. Not more than two Assistant Chief Medical Directors may be individuals qualified in the administration of health services who are not doctors of medicine, dental surgery, or dental medicine. One Assistant Chief Medical Director shall be a qualified doctor of dental surgery or dental medicine who shall be directly responsible to the Chief Medical Director for the operation of the Dental Service."; and (2) by amending paragraph (7) to read as follows: "(7) A Director of Pharmacy Service, a Director of Dietetic Service, and a Director of Optometry, appointed by the Administrator.". SEC. 203. Section 4107 of title 38, United States Code, is amended by— (1) amending subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows: " (a) The per annum full-pay scale or ranges for positions provided in section 4103 of this title, other than Chief Medical Director and Deputy Chief Medical Director, shall be as follows: "Section 4103 Schedule

83 Stat. 864.

"Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director, at the annual rate provided in section 5316 of title 5 for positions in level V of the Executive Schedule.

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