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[CITE: 42USC285i]

 
                 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 9--national eye institute
 
Sec. 285i. Purpose of Institute

    The general purpose of the National Eye Institute (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 blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of 
visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems 
and requirements of the blind. Subject to section 285i-1 of this title, 
the Director of the Institute may carry out a program of grants for 
public and private nonprofit vision research facilities.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 455, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 856; amended Pub. L. 103-43, title XI, 
Sec. 1101(b), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 169.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Pub. L. 103-43 substituted ``Subject to section 285i-1 of this 
title, the Director'' for ``The Director'' in second sentence.
