PUBLIC LAW 92-218-DEG. 23, 1971
784
Report to P r e s i d e n t and Congress.
Compensation.
5 USC 5332 note.
80 Stat. 499; 83 Stat. 190.
[85
STAT.
" (e) The Director of the National Cancer Institute shall designate a member of the staff of the Institute to act as Executive Secretary of the Board. " (f) 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. " (g) The Board shall submit a report to the President for transmittal to the Congress not later than January 31 of each year on the progress of the National Cancer Program toward the accomplishment of its objectives. " (h) 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 person in the Government service employed intermittently. " (i) The Director of the National Cancer Institute shall make available to the Board such staff, information, and other assistance as it may require to carry out its activities. "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS
Ante, p. 7 8 1,
58 Stat. 707; Infra. 42 USC 282.
42 USC 2 8 3. Supra,
"SEC. 410C. For the purpose of carrying out this part (other than section 409), there are authorized to be appropriated $400,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972; $500,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973; and $600,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974." (b)(1) Section 402 of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(b) Under procedures approved by the Director of the National Institutes of Health, the Director of the National Cancer Institute may approve grants under this Act for cancer research or training— " (1) in amounts not to exceed $35,000 after appropriate review for scientific merit but without the review and recommendation by the National Cancer Advisory Board prescribed by section 403(c), and "(2) in amounts exceeding $35,000 after appropriate review for scientific merit and recommendation for approval by such Board as prescribed by section 403(c)." (2) Section 402 of such Act is further amended— (A) by inserting " (a) " immediately after "Sec. 402."; and (B) by redesignating paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) as paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7), respectively. (3) Section 403(c) of such Act is amended by striking out " I n carrying out" and inserting in lieu thereof "Except as provided in section 402(b), in carrying out". REPORT TO CONGRESS
Ante,
p. 779.
SEC. 4. (a) The President shall carry out a review of all administrative processes under which the National Cancer Program, established under part A of title IV of the Public Health Service Act, will
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