Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 3.djvu/795

 PUBLIC LAW 95-622—NOV. 9, 1978

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92 STAT. 3427

Board, but without regard to the limitation in such section on the number of days or the period of such service) the services of not more than one hundred and fifty-one experts or consultants who have scientific or professional qualifications; "(2) to acquire, construct, improve, repair, operate, and main' • tain cancer centers, laboratories, research, and other necessary facilities and equipment, and related accommodations as may be necessary, and such other real or personal property (including patents) as the Director deems necessary; to acquire, without regard to the Act of March 3, 1877 (40 U.S.C. 34), by lease or otherwise through the Administrator of General Services, buildings or parts of buildings in the District of Columbia or communities located adjacent to the District of Columbia for the use of the Institute for a period not to exceed ten years; "(3) to appoint one or more advisory committees composed of such private citizens and officials of Federal, State, and local governments as he deems desirable to advise him with respect to his functions; /, ". '[' " (4) to utilize, with their consent, the services, equipment, personnel, information, and facilities of other Federal, State, or local public agencies, with or without reimbursement therefor; "(5) to accept voluntary and uncompensated services; "(6) to accept unconditional gifts, or donations of services, money, or property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible; "(7) to enter into such contracts, leases, cooperative agreements, or other transactions, without regard to sections 3648 and 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (31 U.S.C. 529, 41 U.S.C. 5), as may be necessary in the conduct of his functions, with any public agency, or with any person, firm, association, corporation, or educational institution; "(8) to take necessary action to insure that all channels for the dissemination and exchange of scientific knowledge and information are maintained between the Institute and the other scientific, medical, and biomedical disciplines and organizations nationally ,'» and internationaly; "(9) to award grants for new construction as well as altera- Grants, tions and renovations for improvement of basic research laboratory facilities, including those related to biohazard control, as deemed necessary for the National Cancer Program; and "(10) to call special meetings of the National Cancer Advisory Board at such times and in such places as the Director deems necessary in order to consult with, obtain advice from, or to secure the approval of projects, programs, or other actions to be undertaken without delay in order to gain maximum benefit from a new scientific or technical finding. uSCIENTIFIC REVIEW

"SEC. 405. (a) The Director of the Institute shall, by regulation, 42 USC 286. provide for proper scientific review of all research grants and programs over which he has authority (1) by utilizing, to the maximum extent possible, appropriate peer review groups established within the National Institutes of Health and composed principally of nonFederal scientists and other experts in the scientific and disease fields,

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