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[CITE: 42USC283]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
                  Part A--National Institutes of Health
 
Sec. 283. Biennial report of Director to President and Congress; 
        contents
        
    The Secretary shall transmit to the President and to the Congress a 
biennial report which shall be prepared by the Director of NIH and which 
shall consist of--
        (1) a description of the activities carried out by and through 
    the National Institutes of Health and the policies respecting the 
    programs of the National Institutes of Health and such 
    recommendations respecting such policies as the Secretary considers 
    appropriate;
        (2) a description of the activities undertaken to improve grants 
    and contracting accountability and technical and scientific peer 
    review procedures of the National Institutes of Health and the 
    national research institutes;
        (3) the reports made by the Associate Director for Prevention 
    under section 282(f) of this title during the period for which the 
    biennial report is prepared;
        (4) a description of the health related behavioral research that 
    has been supported by the National Institutes of Health in the 
    preceding 2-year period, and a description of any plans for future 
    activity in such area; and
        (5) the biennial reports of the Directors of each of the 
    national research institutes, the Director of the Division of 
    Research Resources, and the Director of the National Center for 
    Nursing Research.

The first report under this section shall be submitted not later than 
July 1, 1986, and shall relate to the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1985. The next report shall be submitted not later than December 30, 
1988, and shall relate to the two-fiscal-year period ending on the 
preceding September 30. Each subsequent report shall be submitted not 
later than 90 days after the end of the two-fiscal-year period for which 
the report is to be submitted.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 403, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 826; amended Pub. L. 100-607, title I, 
Sec. 112, Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3052.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pars. (4), (5). Pub. L. 100-607 added par. (4) and 
redesignated former par. (4) as (5).

                         Change of Name

    Division of Research Resources changed to National Center for 
Research Resources by Pub. L. 103-43, title XV, Sec. 1501, June 10, 
1993, 107 Stat. 172.
    National Center for Nursing Research changed to National Institute 
of Nursing Research by Pub. L. 103-43, title XV, Sec. 1511, June 10, 
1993, 107 Stat. 178.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 283e, 284b, 285g-4, 285q-3, 
287a-1, 287d, 287d-2, 289a-2 of this title.
