Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/1185

 PUBLIC LAW 94-562—OCT. 19, 1976

90 STAT. 253

spending with the recently completed survey organized by the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases. The long-range plan formulated under this paragraph shall also include within its scope related nutritional disorders and basic biological processes and mechanisms in nutrition which are related to digestive diseases. (h) The Commission shall recommend for each of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health whose activities are to be affected by the long-range plan estimates of the expenditures needed to carry out each Institute's part of the overall program. Such estimates shall be prepared for the fiscal year beginning immediately after completion of the Commission's plan and for each of the next two fiscal years. (i)(l) Within eighteen months following its initial meeting (as Report to prescribed by subsection (d)), the Commission shall publish and transmit directly to the Congress a final report respecting its activities under this section. The report shall contain (A) the long-range plan required by subsection (g), (B) the expenditure estimates required by subsection (h), and (C) any recommendations of the Commission for legislation. (2) The Commission shall cease to exist on the thirtieth day follow- Tennination. ing the date of submission of the final report to Congress. (j) There are authorized to be appropriated without fiscal year Appropriation audiorization. limitation $1,500,000 to carry out the purposes of this section. COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR DIGESTIVE DISEASES

SEC. 302. Part D of title IV is amended by adding after section 440 (as added by section 103 of this Act) the following new section: "COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR DIGESTIVE DISEASES

"SEC. 440A. (a) The Secretary shall establish a Coordinating Committee for Digestive Diseases (hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Committee') to be composed of the Directors (or their designated representatives) of each of the Institutes of the National Institutes of Health involved in digestive disease research; and the head (or his designated representative) of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, the Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration, the Center for Disease Control, the Department of Defense, the Department of Agriculture, the Health Services Administration, the Health Resources Administration, the Social Security Administration, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. The Committee shall be chaired by the Director of the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases and the Associate Director for Digestive Diseases and Nutrition of that Institute shall serve as vice chairman. The Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman, but not less often than three times a year.

Establishment 42 USC 289c-«.

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