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 92 STAT. 3430 Hearings. Reports.

Compensation.

5 USC 5332 note.

Ante, p. 3424.

Ante, p. 3427.

42 USC 219.

PUBLIC LAW 95-622—NOV. 9, 1978 "(6) The Board may hold such hearings, take such testimony, and sit and act at such times and places as the Board deems advisable to investigate programs and activities of the National Cancer Program. "(7) The Board shall submit a report to the Secretary for simultaneous transmittal by the Secretary, not later than November 30 of each year, to the President and the Congress, on the progress during the preceding fiscal year of the National Cancer Program toward the accomplishment of its objectives. "(8) Members of the Board who are not officers or employees of the United States shall receive for each day they are engaged in the performance of the duties of the Board compensation at rates not to exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate in effect for GS-18 of the General Schedule, including traveltime; and all members, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as such expenses are authorized by section 5703, title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. "(9) The Director of the Institute shall make available to the Board such staff, information, and other assistance as it may require to carry out its activities. "(b) The Board is authorized— "(1) to review research projects or programs conducted or authorized to be conducted under section 401 relating to the study of the cause, prevention, or methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and recommend to the Secretary any such projects which it believes show promise of making valuable contributions to human knowledge with respect to the cause, prevention, or methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer; "(2) to collect information as to studies which are being carried on in the United States or any other country as to the cause, prevention, and methods of diagnosis and treatment of cancer, by correspondence or by personal investigation of such studies, and with the approval of the Secretary make available such information through the appropriate publications for the benefit of health agencies and organizations (public or private), physicians, or any other scientists, and for the information of the general public; "(3) to review applications for grants for research projects relating to cancer and to recommend to the Director for approval under section 405(b)(2) those applications which show promise of making valuable contributions to human knowledge with respect to the cause or prevention of cancer or to methods of diagnosis or treatment of cancer; " (4) to recommend to the Secretary for acceptance conditional gifts pursuant to section 501 of this Act; and "(5) to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to carrying out the provisions of this part. li

Establishment. 42 USC 286c.

PRESIDENT'S CANCER P A N E L

"SEC. 408. (a)(1) There is established the President's Cancer Panel (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Panel') which shall be composed of three persons appointed by the President, who by virtue of their training, experience, and background are exceptionally qual-

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