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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-623—NOV. 9, 1978

92 STAT. 3455

Disease, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Labor, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Council on Environmental Quality, the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the National Academj of Sciences (including the Institute of Medicine and any other unit of the Academy).". (b) The first sentence of subsection (d) of section 308 is amended 42 USC 242m. by inserting after "unless authorized" the following: "by guidelines in effect under section 306(1)(2) or". 42 USC 242k. TASK FORCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL CANCER AND HEART AND LUNG DISEASE

SEC. 9. The Director of the National Center for Health Statistics 42 USC 4362a. and the head of the Center for Disease Control (or the successor to such entity) shall each serve as members of the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease established under section 402 of Public Law 95-95. 42 USC 4362. M I N E WORKERS STUDY

SEC. 10. The Secretary, acting through the National Center for Health Services Research, shall arrange for the conduct of a study to evaluate the impact upon the utilization of health services by and the health status of members of the United Mine Workers and their dependents as a result of changes in the United Mine Workers' collective-bargaining agreements of March 1978, that require copayments for health services. Such study and a report thereon shall be completed and submitted to the Secretary, the Committee on Human Resources, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, and the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives no later than thirty months after the date of enactment of this section. Not more than $1,000,000 of the sums authorized to be appropriated for health services research, evaluation, and demonstration activities by section 308(i)(1) of the Public Health Service Act shall be made available for such study.

42 USC 242m note.

Report to congressional committees.

AMENDMENTS TO THE PUBLIC H E A L T H SERVICE ACT

S E C 11. (a) Subsection (g) of section 208 is amended (1) by striking out "one hundred and fifty-five" and inserting in lieu thereof "one hundred and seventy-nine", (2) by striking out "and not less than" and inserting in lieu thereof ", not less than", and (3) by inserting after "alcoholism," the following: "not less than ten shall be for the National Center for Health Services Research, not less than twelve shall be for the National Center for Health Statistics, and not less than seven shall be for the National Center for Health Care Technology,". ^b) Part K of title III is repealed. (c) Section 453 is amended by adding at the end the following: "The Secretary, through the Institute, may, effective October 1, 1978, and without regard to section 405, carry out a program of grants for public and nonprofit private vision research facilities.". (d)(1) Section 472(a)(1)(A) is amended—

42 USC 210.

Repeal. 42 USC 280c. 42 USC 289k. 42 USC 285. 42 USC 289/-1.