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PUBLIC LAW 92-423-SEPT. 19, 1972
diseases, appropriately emphasizing the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of such diseases of children. "(b) There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, $35,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $45,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.
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Appropriations.
"NATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEMONSTRATION CENTERS FOR HEART, BLOOD VESSEL, LUNG, AND BLOOD DISEASES
"SEC. 415. (a)(1) The Director of the Institute may provide for the development of— " (A) fifteen new centers for basic and clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods (including methods of providing emergency medical services) for heart, blood vessel, and blood diseases; and " (B) fifteen new centers for basic and clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods (including methods of providing emergency medical services) for chronic lung diseases (including bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and other lung diseases of children). "(2) The centers developed under paragraph (1)(A) shall, in addition to being utilized for research, training, and demonstrations, be utilized for the following prevention programs for cardiovascular diseases: " (A) Programs to develop improved methods of detecting individuals with a high risk of developing cardiovascular disease. " (B) Programs to develop improved methods of intervention against those factors which cause individuals to have a high risk of developing such disease. " (C) Programs to develop health professions and allied health professions personnel highly skilled in the prevention of such disease. " (D) Programs to develop improved methods of providing emergency medical services for persons with such disease. "(3) Centers developed under this subsection may be supported under subsection (b) or under any other applicable provision of law. The research, training, and demonstration activities carried out through any such center may relate to any one or more of the diseases referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection. "(b) The Director of the Institute, under policies established by the Public or nonDirector of the National Institutes of Health and after consultation cooplrau^ve'ag^ewith the Council, may enter into cooperative agreements with public or ments. nonprofit private agencies or institutions to pay all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, or strengthening, and providing basic operating support for, existing or new centers (including centers established under subsection (a)) for basic or clinical research into, training in, and demonstration of, advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods for heart, blood vessel, lung, or blood diseases. Funds ^^^ °^ ^""'^^• paid to centers under cooperative agreements under this subsection may be used for— "(1) construction, notwithstanding section 405, ss Stat. yos. "(2) staffing and other basic operating costs, including such " ^ use 285. ^ patient care costs as are required for research.
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