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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-310 Section 2802]
[CITE: 42USC285c]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
   Part C--Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes
 
   subpart 3--national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney 
                                diseases
 
Sec. 285c. Purpose of Institute

    The general purpose of the National Institute of Diabetes and 
Digestive and Kidney Diseases (hereafter in this subpart referred to as 
the ``Institute'') is the conduct and support of research, training, 
health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to 
diabetes mellitus and endocrine and metabolic diseases, digestive 
diseases and nutritional disorders, and kidney, urologic, and 
hematologic diseases.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 426, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 841.)


    Review of Disease Research Programs of the National Institute of 
               Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

    Section 10 of Pub. L. 99-158 provided that: ``The Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall conduct an administrative review of the 
disease research programs of the National Institute of Diabetes and 
Digestive and Kidney Diseases to determine if any of such programs could 
be more effectively and efficiently managed by other national research 
institutes. The Secretary shall complete such review within the one-year 
period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act [Nov. 20, 1985].''
