agency has been notified of the application and been given the opportunity to offer recommendations.

(c) Amendments of applications shall, except as the Commissioner may otherwise provide by or pursuant to regulation, be subject to approval in the same manner as original applications.

CONSULTATION WITH OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES

SEC. 6. (a) The Commissioner may not approve an application for assistance under this Act unless he has given the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health and the head of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in the Department of Justice an opportunity to review the application and make recommendations thereon within a period of not to exceed sixty days.

(b) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall promulgate regulations establishing the procedures for consultation with other Federal agencies (including the consultation required by subsection (a)) and with other appropriate public and private agencies.

ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON DRUG ABUSE EDUCATION

SEC. 7. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall appoint an Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse Education, which shall

(1) advise the Commissioner concerning the administration of, preparation of general regulations for, and operation of, programs supported with assistance under this Act;

(2) make recommendations regarding the allocation of the funds under this Act among the various purposes set forth in section 4 and the criteria for establishing priorities in deciding which applications to approve, including criteria designed to achieve an appropriate geographical distribution of approved projects throughout all regions of the Nation;

(3) review the administration and operation of programs under this Act, including the effectiveness of such programs in meeting the purposes for which they are established and operated, making recommendations with respect thereto, and make annual reports of its findings and recommendations (including recommendations for improvements in this Act to the Secretary for transmittal to the Congress; and

(4) evaluate programs and projects carried out under this Act and disseminate the results of such evaluations.

(b) The Advisory Committee on Drug Abuse Education shall be appointed by the Secretary without regard to the civil service laws and shall consist of twentyone members, seven of whom shall be persons nominated by the Attorney General. The Secretary shall appoint one member as Chairman. The Committee shall consist of persons familiar with education (including elementary, secondary, and adult education, and higher education), mental health, and legal problems associated with drug abuse. The Committee shall meet at the call of the Chairman or of the Commissioner.

(c) Members of the Advisory Committee shall, while serving on the business of the Advisory Committee, be entitled to receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day, including traveltime; and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5 of the United States Code for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

SEC. 8. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Attorney General shall, when requested, render technical assistance to local educational agencies and institutions of higher education in the development and implementation of programs of drug abuse education. Such technical assistance may, among other activities, include making available to such agencies or institutions information regarding effective methods of coping with problems of drug abuse, and making available to such agencies or institutions personnel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Department of Justice, or other persons qualified to advise and assist in coping with such problems or carrying out a drug abuse education program.

PAYMENTS

SEC. 9. Payments under this Act may be made in installments and in advance or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments.

ADMINISTRATION

SEC. 10. (a) The Commissioner may delegate any of his functions under this Act, except the making of regulations, to any officer or employee of the Office of Education.

(b) In administering the provisions of this Act, the Commissioner is authorized to utilize the services and facilities of any agency of the Federal Government and of any other public or private agency or institution in accordance with appropriate agreements, and to pay for such services either in advance or by the way of reimbursement, as may be agreed upon.

SEC. 11. As used in this Act

DEFINITIONS

(a) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Education.

(b) The term "elementary school" means a day or residential school which provides preschool or elementary education.

(c) The term "secondary school" means a day or residential school which provides secondary education.

(d) The term "institution of higher education" means an educational institution in any State which

(1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate;

(2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education;

(3) provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's degree or provides not less than a two-year program which is acceptable for full credit toward such a degree;

(4) is a public or other nonprofit institution; and

(5) is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association or, if not so accredited, (A) is an institution with respect to which the Commissioner has determined that there is satisfactory assurance, considering the resources available to the institution, the period of time, if any, during which it has operated, the effort it is making to meet accreditation standards, and the purpose for which this determination is being made, that the institution will meet the accreditation standards of such an agency or association within a reasonable time, or (B) is an institution whose credits are accepted, on transfer, by not less than three institutions which are so accredited, for credit on the same basis as if transferred from an institution so accredited.

Such term also includes any school which provides not less, than a one-year program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation and which meets the provisions of paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5). For purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner shall publish a list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies or associations which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered.

(e) The term "local educational agency" means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or direction of, or to perform a service function for, public elementary or secondary schools in a city, county, township, school district, or other political subdivision of a State, or such combination of school districts or counties as are recognized in a State as an administrative agency for its public elementary or secondary school.

(f) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

(g) The term "State" includes, in addition to the several States of the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

(h) The term "State educational agency" means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Government or by State law.

Mr. BRADEMAS. The subcommittee will come to order.

Recognizing the acute dangers caused by the use and abuse of drugs in the United States, and in an effort to come to grips with this problem, the Select Subcommittee on Education today begins hearings on identical bills H.R. 9312, H.R. 9313, and H.R. 9314, introduced by Congressman Lloyd Meeds, of the State of Washington, for himself and for a bipartisan group of 63 Members of the House of Representatives.

That so substantial a number of Members of the House, of both political parties, should have introduced this measure indicates, I think, the widespread interest on the part of Members of Congress in helping develop a remedy to the problem, the whole spectrum of problems, created by the use of drugs and narcotics in the United States.

Indeed, the Chair would observe that one can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine these days without finding another article or comment on the devastating effects of the use of drugs. For example, in this morning's New York Times is an article with the lead, "103 Heroin Users Died Here in June."

The article goes on to point out that in the city of New York between May 30 and June 30, 103 heroin addicts have died.

Or one turns to the latest issue of Time magazine, which indicates that on an average weekend in New York five heroin fatalities are reported, but during the last weekend in June the number rose to 24, an increase of almost 500 percent.

I think many of you have read with interest, also, articles in the Washington Post this week by both William Raspberry and a series of articles by Myra MacPherson, touching upon some of the motivations for the use of drugs, as well as on the danger to life in their use. The Chair would like to ask unanimous consent that in the appendix of the hearings there be inserted these articles and others, and would invite members of our subcommittee who may have similar articles or statements that they would like to have inserted, to bring them to the attention of the counsel of the subcommittee.

The purpose of the bills under consideration is to encourage the development of drug abuse education programs in elementary and secondary schools and in adult and community education programs in the United States.

This purpose would be accomplished chiefly by means of 5-year grant-in-contract programs with a total authorization of $44 million. The following kinds of projects or activities would be supported under Mr. Meeds' bill:

1. Development of courses on drug abuse for elementary and secondarv and adult education programs;

2. Demonstration projects for testing the effectiveness of the instruction:

3. Projects for the dissemination to schools of the results of demonstration projects;

4. Training in drug abuse education for schoolteachers, law enforcement officers, and community leaders;

5. Development of community education programs on drug abuse, especially for parents; and

6. Aid to State education agencies in helping school systems plan drug abuse education programs.

President Nixon's administration announced recently that the use of drugs in the United States has reached almost epidemic proportions, the use of narcotics has.

I urge, therefore, that we must now move to shape programs for education on the dangers of using drugs. As chairman of the subcommittee I would like to urge President Nixon to give his support to a national program of drug abuse education in our elementary and secondary schools, and in local communities.

The measure that our subcommittee is considering today is aimed at providing thoughtful and bold programs to assist schools and local communities more effectively to deal with this serious problem.

Before calling on our first witness-and today we shall hear from Members of Congress; then tomorrow we shall hear from persons who are experts in the whole area of narcotics-the Chair would like to call on the gentleman from Washington, Congressman Lloyd Meeds, who has given outstanding leadership in the shaping of the bill we are considering here today.

Mr. Meeds.

Mr. MEEDS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

STATEMENT OF HON. LLOYD MEEDS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

Mr. MEEDS. I would first like to thank all of the cosponsors of this legislation and express my gratitude to the Chair for bringing this matter to hearings, and express the hope that the hearings will lead to the markup and passage of this legislation in the Senate.

As the principal sponsor of the Drug Abuse Education Act of 1969, I feel strongly that this bill offers us a chance to establish ourselves as a "do-something" Congress. Legislation is often the offspring of change, and here we have a proposal that deals with a deadly serious problem almost unknown in the days of our youth.

H.R. 9312 assumes that the American educational system should focus its energies more effectively on a syndrome of mounting public concern and little public expertise: drugs and their use by our younger citizens.

This bill is a proposal, not a panacea. H.R. 9312 encompasses education as a tool of prevention but does not reach out to take in the areas of law enforcement, rehabilitation of addicts and users, and research into the properties and effects of drugs.

The Drug Abuse Education Act of 1969 was written and introduced because we felt we had to begin somewhere and because this "somewhere" ought to be the schools where ideas are tested and opinions formed. School is the one experience all young people share, regardless of cultural preferences for Glenn Campbell or the Jefferson Airplane.

We must accelerate our research into drugs and their effects, and we must continue our enforcement of laws dealing with the sale, manufacture, and possession of drugs. But unless our schools encourage discussion about drugs, their facts and fantasies, we shall continue along the path of blind experimentation fostered by untested assumptions that all drugs are "safe" and are good samaritans along the road to happiness and fulfillment.

To prepare this legislation I sought the counsel of both private and governmental spokesmen. What we have before the subcommittee today is not a culmination but a good beginning, a first step toward assuring Federal assistance in what may be one of the most "relevant" curriculums of the times.

In this spirit, then, I emphasize that neither I nor the other sponsors seek a unanimous chorus of approval for every last detail of H.R. 9312. Amendments to the bill resulting from these hearings may improve its effectiveness.

You will notice, for example, that there is no earmarking of funds. At this time, I would anticipate no such set-asides of funds, although our report on the bill may emphasize certain directions that we feel should be taken.

Mr. Chairman, I am grateful for the widespread interest in this legislation and wish to thank you and all the cosponsors who share my strong feelings that combating drug abuse will require a more forceful effort at the local, State and Federal level.

Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record at this time a more complete statement on the bill.

Mr. BRADEMAS. Without objection, it is so ordered.

(Mr. Meeds' statement follows:)

[From the Congressional Record]

Congressman Lloyd Meeds and 63 Cosponsors Propose the Drug Abuse Education Act of 1969

SPEECH OF HON. LLOYD MEEDS OF WASHINGTON, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1969

Mr. MEEDS. Mr. Speaker, I am today introducing major legislation to help parents, students, and community officials learn more about drugs and their abuse.

Joining with me as cosponsors of this bipartisan bill are the following Members of the House of Representatives:

Mr. Perkins, Mrs. Green of Oregon, Mr. Thompson of New Jersey, Mr. Dent, Mr. Pucinski, Mr. Daniels of New Jersey, Mr. Brademas, Mr. O'Hara, Mr. Carey, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. William D. Ford, Mr. Hathaway, Mrs. Mink, Mr. Scheuer, Mr. Burton of California, Mr. Gaydos, Mr. Ayres, Mr. Ashbrook, Mr. Reid of New York, Mr. Erlenborn, Mr. Eshleman, Mr. Ruth, Mr. Hansen of Idaho.

Mr. Pelly, Mrs. Hansen of Washington, Mrs. May, Mr. Foley, Mr. Hicks, Mr. Adams, Mr. Price of Illinois, Mr. Fulton of Tennessee, Mr King, Mr. St. Onge. Mr. Howard, Mr. Pryor of Arkansas, Mr. Boland, Mr. Wyatt, Mr. Addabbo, Mr. Corman, Mr. Charles H. Wilson, Mr. Rees, Mr. Kyros, Mr. Brock, Mr. Halpern, Mr. Rosenthal, Mr. Burton of Utah, Mr. Pollock.

Mr. Waldie, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Thompson of Georgia, Mr. Mikva, Mr. Syming ton, Mr. Brown of California, Mr. Edwards of California, Mr. Riegle, Mr. Bingham. Mr. Córdova, Mr. Don H. Clausen, Mr. Gude, Mr. Podell, Mr. Matsunaga, Mr. McClure, and Mr. Fisher.

DRUG ABUSE: A HUNDRED FLOWERS OF OPINION

Mr. Speaker, we humans react strangely to the unknown. Often we fear and attack it blindly. Sometimes we worship it irrationally.

American attitudes toward drugs reflect much of this myth and mystery. For those of us in the "over 30" group, drugs are drugs. Period. We easily conjure up images of dope addicts, pushers, criminals, psychopaths, and the Mafia. But for many young people, drugs are a source of growing fascination. Certain drugs, they claim, are not only "safe" but desirable. This attitude is fostered partially by culture figures who identify drugs with love, truth, beauty, and peace. While adults have been going to work, paying taxes, and mowing their lawns, an entirely new subculture has developed around drugs.