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[CITE: 42USC285j-1]

 
                 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 10--national institute of neurological disorders and stroke
 
Sec. 285j-1. Spinal cord regeneration research

    The Director of the Institute shall conduct and support research 
into spinal cord regeneration.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 458, as added Pub. L. 99-158, 
Sec. 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 857.)


               Interagency Committee on Spinal Cord Injury

    Section 7 of Pub. L. 99-158 provided that:
    ``(a) Establishment.--Within 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act [Nov. 20, 1985], the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
shall establish in the National Institute of Neurological and 
Communicative Diseases and Stroke an Interagency Committee on Spinal 
Cord Injury (hereafter in this section referred to as the `Interagency 
Committee'). The Interagency Committee shall plan, develop, coordinate, 
and implement comprehensive Federal initiatives in research on spinal 
cord injury and regeneration.
    ``(b) Committee Composition and Meetings.--(1) The Interagency 
Committee shall consist of representatives from--
        ``(A) the National Institute on Neurological and Communicative 
    Disorders and Stroke;
        ``(B) the Department of Defense;
        ``(C) the Department of Education;
        ``(D) the Veterans' Administration;
        ``(E) the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and
        ``(F) the National Science Foundation;
designated by the heads of such entities.
    ``(2) The Interagency Committee shall meet at least four times. The 
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall select the Chairman of the 
Interagency Committee from the members of the Interagency Committee.
    ``(c) Report.--Within the 18 months after the date of enactment of 
this Act [Nov. 20, 1985], the Interagency Committee shall prepare and 
transmit to the Congress a report concerning its activities under this 
section. The report shall include a description of research projects on 
spinal cord injury and regeneration conducted or supported by Federal 
agencies during such 18-month period, the nature and purpose of each 
such project, the amounts expended for each such project, and an 
identification of the entity which conducted the research under each 
such project.
    ``(d) Termination.--The Interagency Committee shall terminate 90 
days after the date on which the Interagency Committee transmits the 
report required by subsection (c) to the Congress.''
