Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 88 Part 1.djvu/179

 88 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 93-282-MAY 14, 1974

135

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

SEC. 202. Title IV of the Public Health Service Act is amended by redesignating part G as part H, by redesignating section 454 as section 461, and by inserting after part F the following new part:

42 USC 2S9l. 42 USC 289i.

"PART G—NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT OF INSTITUTE

"SEC. 455. (a) There is established the National Institute of Mental 42 USC 289k-l. Health (hereinafter in this part referred to as the 'Institute') to administer the programs and authorities of the Secretary with respect to mental health. The Secretary, acting through the Institute, shall, in carrying out the purposes of sections 301 and 303 of this Act and the 42 USC 241, Mental Eetardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers 242a. 42 USC 2661 Construction Act of 1963 (other than part C of title II) with respect note. to mental illness, develop and conduct comprehensive health, education, training, research, and planning programs for the prevention and treatment of mental illness and for the rehabilitation of the mentally ill. The Secretary shall carry out through the Institute the administrative and financial management, policy development and planning, evaluation, and public information functions which are required for the implementation of such programs and authorities. "(b)(1) The Institute shall be under the direction of a Director who shall be appointed by the Secretary. "(2) The Director, with the approval of the Secretary, may employ and prescribe the functions of such officers and employees, including attorneys, as are necessary to administer the programs and authorities to be carried out through the Institute. "(c) The programs to be carried out through the Institute shall be administered so as to encourage the broadest possible participation of professionals and paraprofessionals in the fields of medicine, science, the social sciences, and other related disciplines." NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM

SEC. 203. (a) Section 101 of the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation Act of 1970 is amended to read as follows:

42 USC 4551,

"ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INSTITUTE

"SEC. 101. (a) There is established the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 'Institute') to administer the programs and authorities assigned to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 'Secretary') by this Act and part C of the Community Mental Health Centers Act. The Secretary, acting through the Institute, shall, in carrying out the purposes of sections 301 and 303 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism, develop and conduct comprehensive health, education, training, research, and planning programs for the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism and for the rehabilitation of alcohol abusers and alcoholics. The Secretary shall carry out through the Institute the administrative and financial management, policy development and planning, evaluation, and public information functions which are required for the implementation of such programs and authorities.

42 USC 2688e.

�