42 U.S.C. 210 surviving beneficiaries under the following provisions of title 10, United States Code: (1) Section 1036, Escorts for dependents of members: transportation and travel allowances. (2) Chapter 61, Retirement or Separation for Physical Disability, except that sections 1201, 1202, and 1203 do not apply to commissioned officers of the Public Health Service who have been ordered to active duty for training for a period of more than 30 days. (3) Chapter 69, Retired Grade, except sections 1374, 1375, and 1376(a). (4) Chapter 71, Computation of Retired Pay, except formula No. 3 of section 1401. (5) Chapter 73, Annuities Based on Retired or Retainer Pay. (6) Chapter 75, Death Benefits. (7) Section 2771, Final settlement of accounts: deceased members. (8) Chapter 163, Military Claims, but only when commissioned officers of the Service are entitled to military benefits under section 212 of this Act. (9) Section 2603, Acceptance of fellowships, scholarships, or grants. (10) Section 2634, Motor vehicles: for members on permanent change of station. (11) Section 1035, Deposit of savings. (b) The authority vested by title 10, United States Code, in the "military departments" or "the Secretary concerned" with respect to the rights, privileges, immunities, and benefits referred to in subsection (a) shall be exercised, with respect to commissioned officers of the Service, by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare or his designee. ADVISORY COMMITTEES SEC. 222.47 (a) The Surgeon General may, without regard to the civil service laws, and subject to the Secretary's approval in such cases as the Secretary may prescribe, from time to time appoint such advisory committees (in addition to those authorized to be established under other provisions of law), for such periods of time, as he deems desirable for the purpose of advising him in connection with any of his functions. (b) Members of any advisory committee appointed under this section who are not regular full-time employees of the United States shall, while attending meetings or conferences of such committee or otherwise engaged on business of such committee receive compensation and allowances as provided in section 208(c) for members of national advisory councils established under this Act. 47 Sec. 222 added by sec. 3 of P.L. 87-838. (c) Upon appointment of any such committee, the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, may transfer such of the functions of the National Advisory Health Council relating to grants-in-aid for research or training projects in the areas or fields with which such committee is concerned as he determines to be appropriate. VOLUNTEER SERVICES SEC. 223.48 Subject to regulations, volunteer and uncompensated services may be accepted by the Secretary, or by any other officer or employee of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare designated by him, for use in the operation of any health care facility or in the provision of health care. "Sec. 223 added by sec. 6 of P.L. 90-174. 89-774 0683 42 U.S.C. 241 TITLE III-GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE PART A-RESEARCH AND INVESTIGATION IN GENERAL SEC. 301. The Surgeon General shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and streams. In carrying out the foregoing the Surgeon General is authorized to (a) Collect and make available through publications and other appropriate means, information as to, and the practical application of, such research and other activities; (b) Make available research facilities of the Service to appropriate public authorities, and to health officials and scientists engaged in special study; (c) Establish and maintain research fellowships in the Service with such stipends and allowances, including traveling and subsistence expenses, as he may deem necessary to procure the assistance of the most brilliant and promising research fellows from the United States and abroad; (d) 49 Make grants-in-aid to universities, hospitals, laboratories, and other public or private institutions, and to individuals for such research or research training projects as are recommended by the National Advisory Health Council, or, with respect to cancer, recommended by the National Advisory Cancer Council, or, with respect to mental health, recommended by the National Advisory Mental Health Council, or with respect to heart diseases, recommended by the National Advisory Heart Council, or, with respect to dental diseases and conditions, recommended by the National Advisory Dental Research Council, and include in the grants for 49 Subsec. 301 (d) amended by P.L. 87-838. any such project grants of penicillin and other antibiotic compounds for use in such project; and make, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council, grants-in-aid to public or nonprofit universities, hospitals, laboratories, and other institutions for the general support of their research and research training programs: Provided, That such uniform percentage, not to exceed 15 per centum, as the Surgeon General may determine, of the amounts provided for grants for research or research training projects for any fiscal year through the appropriations for the National Institutes of Health may be transferred from such appropriations to a separate account to be available for such research and research training program grants-in-aid for such fiscal year; (e) Secure from time to time and for such periods as he deems advisable, the assistance and advice of experts, scholars, and consultants from the United States or abroad; (f) For purposes of study, admit and treat at institutions, hospitals, and stations of the Service, persons not otherwise eligible for such treatment; (g) Make available, to health officials, scientists, and appropriate public and other nonprofit institutions and organizations, technical advice and assistance on the application of statistical methods to experiments, studies, and surveys in health and medical fields; and (h) 50 Enter into contracts during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and each of the five succeeding fiscal years, including contracts for research in accordance with and subject to the provisions of law applicable to contracts entered into by the military departments under title 10, United States Code, sections 2353 and 2354, except that determination, approval, and certification required thereby shall be by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare; and (i) 51 Adopt, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Health Council, or, with respect to cancer, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Cancer Council, or with respect to mental health, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, or, with respect to heart diseases, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Heart Council, or, with respect to dental diseases and conditions, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Dental Research Council, such additional means as he deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section. Par. (h) of sec. 301 amended by sec. 9 of P.L. 90-174. Subsec. 301 (h) was redesignated as subsec. 301 (1) by sec. 3 of P.L. 89-115. 42 U.S.C. 242 42 U.S.C. 242a NARCOTICS SEC. 302. (a) In carrying out the purposes of section 301 with respect to narcotics, the studies and investigations shall include the use and misuse of narcotic drugs, the quantities of crude opium, coca leaves, and their salts, derivatives, and preparations, together with reserves thereof, necessary to supply the normal and emergency medicinal and scientific requirements of the United States. The results of studies and investigations of the quantities of crude opium, coca leaves, or other narcotic drugs, together with such reserves thereof, as are necessary to supply the normal and emergency medicinal and scientific requirements of the United States, shall be reported not later than the 1st day of September each year to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be used at his discretion in determining the amounts of crude opium and coca leaves to be imported under the Narcotic Drugs Import and Export Act, as amended. (b) The Surgeon General shall cooperate with States for the purpose of aiding them to solve their narcotic drug problems and shall give authorized representatives of the States the benefit of his experience in the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of narcotic addicts to the end that each State may be encouraged to provide adequate facilities and methods for the care and treatment of its narcotic addicts. MENTAL HEALTH SEC. 303.52 (a) In carrying out the purposes of section 301 with respect to mental health, the Surgeon General is authorized (1) to provide training and instruction and to establish and maintain traineeships, in accordance with the provisions of section 433(a); (2) to make grants to State or local agencies, laboratories, and other public or nonprofit agencies and institutions, and to individuals for investigations, experiments, demonstrations, studies, and research projects with respect to the development of improved methods of diagnosing mental illness, and of care, treatment, and rehabilitation of the mentally ill, including grants to State agencies responsible for administration of State institutions for care, or care and treatment, of mentally ill persons for developing and establishing improved methods of operation and administration of such institutions. (b) Grants under paragraph (2) of subsection (a) may be made only upon recommendation of the National Advisory Mental Health Council. Such grants may be paid in advance or by way of reimbursement, as may be Sec. 303 was amended by sec. 501 of P.L. 911, 84th Congress. |