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PUBLIC LAW 93-348-JULY 12, 1974

[88 STAT.

Public Law 93-348 July 12, 1974 [H. R. 7724]

National R e search Act. 42 USC 289/-1 note. National Research Service Award Act of 1974.

AN ACT To amend the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of National Research Service Awards to assure the continued excellence of biomedical and behavioral research and to provide for the protection of human subjects involved in biomedical and behavioral research and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "National Research Act". TITLE I—BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL TRAINING

RESEARCH

SHORT TITLE

42 USC 289Z-1 note.

SEC. 101. This title may be cited as the "National Research Service Award Act of 1974". F I N D I N G S A N D DECLARATION OF PURPOSE

42 USC 289Z-1 note.

SEC. 102. (a) Congress finds and declares that— (1) the success and continued viability of the Federal biomedical and behavioral research effort depends on the availability of excellent scientists and a network of institutions of excellence capable of producing superior research personnel; (2) direct support of the training of scientists for careers in biomedical and behavioral research is an appropriate and necessary role for the Federal Government; and (3) graduate research assistance programs should be the key elements in the training programs of the institutes of the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. (b) I t is the purpose of this title to increase the capability of the institutes of the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration to carry out their responsibility of maintaining a superior national program of research into the physical and mental diseases and impairments of man. BIOMEDICAL A N D BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH

Ante,

p. 135.

SEC. 103. The part H of the Public Health Service Act relating to the appointment of the Directors of the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute is redesignated as part I, section 461 of such part is redesignated as section 471, and such part is amended by adding at the end the following new sections: uNATIONAL

42 USC 289^-1.

TRAINING

RESEARCH SERVICE AWARDS

"SEC. 472. (a)(1) The Secretary shall— " (A) provide National Research Service Awards for— " (i) biomedical and behavioral research at the National Institutes of Health and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration in matters relating to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of the disease (or diseases) or other health problems to which the activities of the Institutes and Administration are directed, "(ii) training at the Institutes and Administration of individuals to undertake such research.

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