not be eligible to serve continuously for more than three years but shall be eligible for reappointment if he has not served immediately preceding his reappointment.

"(e) The National Advisory Mental Health Council shall advise, consult with, and make recommendations to, the Surgeon General on matters relating to the activities and functions of the Service in the field of mental health. The Council is authorized (1) to review research projects or programs submitted to or initiated by it in the field of mental health and recommend to the Surgeon General, for prosecution under this Act, 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 psychiatric disorders; and (2) to collect information as to studies being carried on in the field of mental health and, with the approval of the Surgeon General, make available such information through the appropriate publications for the benefit of health and welfare agencies or organizations (public or private), physicians, or any other scientists, and for the information of the general public. The Council is also authorized to recommend to the Surgeon General, for acceptance pursuant to section 501 of this Act, conditional gifts for work in the field of mental health; and the Surgeon General shall recommend acceptance of any such gifts only after consultation with the Council."

DETAIL OF PERSONNEL

SEC. 6. Subsection (b) of section 214 of the Public Health Service Act is amended to read as follows:

"(b) Upon the request of any State health authority or, in the case of work relating to mental health, any State mental health authority, personnel of the Service may be detailed by the Surgeon General for the purpose of assisting such State or a political subdivision thereof in work related to the functions of the Service."

RESEARCH, INVESTIGATIONS, AND TRAINING

SEC. 7. (a) Paragraph (d) of section 301 of the Public Health Service Act is amended to read as follows:

"(d) Make grants in aid to universities, hospitals, laboratories, and other public or private institutions, and to individuals for such research. 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;".

(b) Paragraph (g) of such section is amended to read as follows: "(g) 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 Coun cil, such additional means as he deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this section."

(c) Part A of title III of the Public Health Service Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:

"MENTAL HEALTH

"SEC. 303. In carrying out the purposes of section 301 with respect to mental health, the Surgeon General is authorized

"(a) For purposes of study, to admit and treat at the National Institute of Mental Health, voluntary patients, whether or not otherwise eligible for such treatment by the Service, and patients of Saint Elizabeths Hospital transferred from the hospital pursuant to arrangements made between the Surgeon General and the Superintendent of the hospital with the approval of the Administrator: Provided, That consent of a legal guardian shall be obtained before the transfer of any patient from Saint Elizabeths Hospital for such treatment.

(b) (1) To provide training and instruction, in matters relating to psychiatric disorders, to persons found by him to have proper qualífications, and to fix and pay to any of such persons as he may designate a per diem allowance during such training and instruction of not to exceed $10, the number of such persons receiving such training and instruction to be fixed by the National Advisory Mental Health Council; and (2) to provide such training and instruction, and demonstrations, through grants, upon recommendation of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, to public and other nonprofit institutions, but only to the extent necessary for the purposes of such training and instruction."

HEALTH CONFERENCES

SEC. 8. Section 312 of the Public Health Service Act is amended to read as follows:

"HEALTH CONFERENCES

"SEO. 312. A conference of the health authorities of the several States shall be called annually by the Surgeon General Whenever in his opinion the interests. of the public health would be promoted by a conference, the Surgeon General may invite as many of such health authorities. to confer as he deems necessary or proper. Upon the application of health authorities of five or more States it shall be the duty of the Surgeon General to call a conference of all State and Territorial health authorities joining in the request. Each State represented at any conference shall be entitled to a single vote. Whenever at any such conference matters relating to mental health are to be discussed, the mental health authorities of the respective States shall be invited to attend."

GRANTS TO STATES

SEC. 9. (a) Subsection (c) of section 314 of the Public Health Service Act is amended to read as follows:

"(c) To enable the Surgeon General to assist, through grants and as otherwise provided in this section, States, counties, health districts, and other political subdivisions of the States in establishing and maintaining adequate public health services, including grants for demonstrations and for the training of personnel for State and local health work, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum not to exceed $30,000,000. Of the sum appropriated for each fiscal year pursuant to this subsection there shall be available an

amount, not to exceed $3,000,000, to enable the Surgeon General to provide demonstrations and to train personnel for State and local health work and to meet the cost of pay, allowances, and traveling expenses of commissioned officers and other personnel of the Service detailed to assist States in carrying out the purposes of this subsection."

(b) Subsection (d) of such section is amended to read as follows: (d) For each fiscal year, the Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator, shall determine the total sum from the appropriation under subsection (a), the total sum from the appropriation under subsection (b), and, within the limits specified in subsection (c), the total sum from the appropriation under that subsection which shall be available for allotment among the several States. He shall, in accordance with regulations, from time to time make allotments from such sums to the several States on the basis of (1) the population, (2) the extent of the venereal-disease problem, the extent of the tuberculosis problem, and the extent of the mental health problem and other special health problems, respectively, and (3) the financial need of the respective States. Upon making such allotments the Surgeon General shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts thereof."

Subsection (f) of such section is amended to read as follows: (f) The moneys so paid to any State shall be expended solely in carrying out the purposes specified in subsection (a), or subsection (b), or subsection (c) of this section, as the case may be, and in accordance with plans, approved by the Surgeon General, which have been presented by the health authority of such State and, to the extent any such plan contains provisions relating to mental health, by the mental health authority of such State."

(d) Subsection (h) of such section is amended to read as follows: (h) Whenever the Surgeon General, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the health authority or, where appropriate, the mental health authority of the State, finds that, with respect to money paid to the State out of appropriations under subsection (a), or subsection (b), or subsection (c), as the case may be, there is a failure to comply substantially with either

"(1) the provisions of this section;

"(2) the plan submitted under subsection (f); or
"(3) the regulations;

the Surgeon General shall notify such State health authority or mental health authority either that further payments will not be made to the State from appropriations under such subsection (or in his discretion that further payments will not be made to the State from such appropriations for activities in which there is such failure), until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any such failure. Until he is so satisfied the Surgeon General shall make no further certification for payment to such State from appropriations under such subsection, or shall limit payment to activities in which there is no such failure."

(e) Subsection (i) of such section is amended to read as follows: (i) All regulations and amendments thereto with respect to grants to States under this section shall be made after consultation with a conference of the State health authorities and, in the case of regula

tions or amendments which relate to or in any way affect grants under subsection (c) for work in the field of mental health, the State mental health authorities Insofar as practicable, the Surgeon General shall obtain the agreement, prior to the issuance of any such regulations or amendments, of the State health authorities and, in the case of regulations or amendments which relate to or in any way affect grants under subsection (c) for work in the field of mental health, the State mental health authorities."

GIFTS

SEC. 10. Section 501 (e) of the Public Health Service Act is amended to read as follows:

"(e) Donations of $50,000 or over in aid of research may be acknowledged by the establishment of suitable memorials to the donors, within the National Institute of Health or, where appropriate, within the National Institute of Mental Health."

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

SEC. 11. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated a sum. not to exceed $7,500.000 for the erection and equipment, for the use of the Public Health Service in carrying out the provisions of this Act of suitable and adequate hospital buildings and facilities, including necessary living quarters for personnel, and of suitable and adequate laboratory buildings and facilities, and such buildings and facilities shall be known as the National Institute of Mental Health. The Federal Works Administrator is authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, donation, or otherwise, a suitable and adequate site or sites, selected on the advice of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, in or near the District of Columbia for such buildings and facilities, and to erect thereon, furnish, and equip such buildings and facilities. The amount authorized to be appropriated in this seotion shall include the cost of preparation of drawings and specifications, supervision of construction, and other administrative expenses incident to the work: Provided, That the Federal Works Agency shall prepare the plans and specifications, make all necessary contracts, and supervise construction.

Approved July 3, 1946.

[PUBLIC LAW 584-79TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 723-2D SESSION]

[S. 1636]

AN ACT

To amend the Surplus Property Act of 1944 to designate the Department of State as the disposal agency for surplus property outside the continental United States, its Territories and possessions, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 10 of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection (c) to read as follows:

"(c) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Department of State shall be the sole disposal agency for surplus property located outside the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and with respect to such property the Secretary of State shall exercise the functions heretofore conferred upon the Surplus Property Administrator by Public Law 181, Seventy-ninth Congress. The Secretary of State shall, subject to the provisions of the War Mobilization and Reconversion Act of 1944, have sole responsibility for carrying out the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, with respect to surplus property located outside the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands."

SEC. 2. Section 32 (b) of such Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(b) (1) The provisions of this Act shall be applicable to disposition of property within the United States and elsewhere, but the Secretary of State may exempt from some or all of the provisions hereof dispositions of property located outside of the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, whenever he deems that such provisions would obstruct the efficient and economic disposition of such property in accordance with the objectives of this Act. In addition to the authority conferred by section 15 of this Act, the Department of State may dispose of surplus property located outside the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska (including the Aleutian Islands), Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, for foreign currencies or credits, or substantial benefits or the discharge of claims resulting from the compromise, or settlement of such claims by any Government agency in accordance with the law, whenever the Secretary of State determines that it is in the interest of the United States to do so and upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper. Any foreign currencies or credits acquired by the Department of State pursuant to this subsection shall be administered in accordance with. procedures that may from time to time be established by the Secretary of the Treasury and, if and when reduced to United States currency, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. "(2) In carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to enter into an executive agreement or