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106 STAT. 370 PUBLIC LAW 102-321—JULY 10, 1992 42 USC 290aa note. circumvention or evasion thereof, or to facilitate compliance therewith. "(h) APPLICATION TO DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. — The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, acting through the Chief Medical Director, shall, to the maximum feasible extent consistent with their responsibilities under title 38, United States Code, prescribe regulations making applicable the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under subsection (g) of this section to records maintained in connection with the provision of hospital care, nursing home care, domiciliary care, and medical services under such title 38 to veterans suffering from substance abuse. In prescribing and implementing regulations pursuant to this subsection, the Secretary of Veterans i'^airs shall, from time to time, consult with the Secretary of Health and Human Services in order to achieve the maximum possible coordination of the regulations, and the implementation thereof, which they each prescribe.". Subtitle D—Transfer Provisions SEC. 141. TRANSFERS. ^- (a) SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINIS- TRATION. — Except as specifically provided otherwise in this Act or an amendment made by this Act, there are transferred to the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration all service related functions which the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, or the Director of any entity within the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, exercised before the date of the enactment of this Act and all related functions of any officer or employee of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and MentcJ Health Administration. (b) NATIONAL INSTITUTES. — Except as specifically provided otherwise in this Act or an amendment made by this Act, there are treinsferred to the appropriate Directors of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, all research related functions which the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration exercised before the date of the enactment of this Act and all related functions of any officer or employee of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. (c) ADEQUATE PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES.— The transfers required xinder this subtitle shall be effectuated in a manner that ensures that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has adequate personnel and resources to carry out its statutory responsibilities and that the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health have adequate personnel and resources to enable such institutes to carry out their respective statutoryj*esponsibilities. SEC. 142. TRANSFER AND ALLOCATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS AND PERSONNEL. (a) SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINIS- TRATION.— Except as otherwise provided in the Public Health Serv-