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[CITE: 42USC285m-5]

 
                 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 13--national institute on deafness and other communication 
                                disorders
 
Sec. 285m-5. Interagency Coordinating Committee


(a) Establishment

    The Secretary may establish a committee to be known as the Deafness 
and Other Communication Disorders Interagency Coordinating Committee 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the ``Coordinating 
Committee'').

(b) Functions

    The Coordinating Committee shall, with respect to deafness and other 
communication disorders--
        (1) provide for the coordination of the activities of the 
    national research institutes; and
        (2) coordinate the aspects of all Federal health programs and 
    activities relating to deafness and other communication disorders in 
    order to assure the adequacy and technical soundness of such 
    programs and activities and in order to provide for the full 
    communication and exchange of information necessary to maintain 
    adequate coordination of such programs and activities.

(c) Composition

    The Coordinating Committee shall be composed of the directors of 
each of the national research institutes and divisions involved in 
research with respect to deafness and other communication disorders and 
representatives of all other Federal departments and agencies whose 
programs involve health functions or responsibilities relevant to 
deafness and other communication disorders.

(d) Chairman; meetings

    The Coordinating Committee shall be chaired by the Director of NIH 
(or the designee of the Director). The Committee shall meet at the call 
of the chair, but not less often than four times a year.

(e) Annual report; recipients of report

    Not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, the 
Coordinating Committee shall prepare and transmit to the Secretary, the 
Director of NIH, the Director of the Institute, and the advisory council 
for the Institute a report detailing the activities of the Committee in 
such fiscal year in carrying out subsection (b) of this section.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 464E, as added Pub. L. 100-553, 
Sec. 2(4), Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2774, and Pub. L. 100-690, title II, 
Sec. 2613(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4237; amended Pub. L. 100-690, 
title II, Sec. 2613(b)(2), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4238; Pub. L. 103-
43, title XX, Sec. 2008(b)(9), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 211.)

                          Codification

    Pub. L. 100-553 and section 2613(a)(1) of Pub. L. 100-690 contained 
identical provisions enacting this section. See 1988 Amendment note 
below.


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 103-43 inserted ``Coordinating'' 
before ``Committee'' in first sentence of subsec. (d) and before first 
reference to ``Committee'' in subsec. (e).
    1988--Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 2613(b)(2), amended this section to read 
as if the amendments made by Pub. L. 100-690, Sec. 2613(a)(1), which 
enacted this section, had not been enacted. See Codification note above.


                    Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

    For effective date of amendment by section 2613(b)(2) of Pub. L. 
100-690, see section 2613(b)(1) of Pub. L. 100-690, set out as an Effect 
of Enactment of Similar Provisions note under section 285m of this 
title.
