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[CITE: 42USC242q]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
                   Part A--Research and Investigations
 
Sec. 242q. Task Force on Aging Research; establishment and 
        duties
        

(a) Establishment

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall establish a Task 
Force on Aging Research.

(b) Duties

    With respect to aging research (as defined in section 242q-4 of this 
title), the Task Force each fiscal year shall--
        (1) make recommendations to the Secretary specifying the 
    particular projects of research, or the particular categories of 
    research, that should be conducted or supported by the Secretary;
        (2) of the projects specified under paragraph (1), make 
    recommendations to the Secretary of the projects that should be 
    given priority in the provision of funds; and
        (3) make recommendations to the Secretary of the amount of funds 
    that should be appropriated for such research.

(c) Provision of information to public

    The Task Force may make available to health professionals, and to 
other members of the public, information regarding the research 
described in subsection (b) of this section.

(Pub. L. 101-557, title III, Sec. 301, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2768.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Home Health Care and Alzheimer's 
Disease Amendments of 1990, and not as part of the Public Health Service 
Act which comprises this chapter.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 242q-2, 242q-3, 242q-4, 
242q-5 of this title.
