PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make contracts and grants with public or private agencies, organizations, and individuals to build, buy, and run fixed-location and mobile clinics. Those clinics will test, examine, and treat breathing and lung problems in active and inactive coal miners. The Secretary must coordinate these contracts and grants with the Appalachian Regional Commission. Requires the Secretary to start research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and to give research grants to develop simple, effective tests to measure, detect, and treat breathing and lung problems in active and inactive coal miners. Any grant must make the information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other results available to the public, unless the Secretary decides some limits are needed in the public interest. Congress may fund $10,000,000 each fiscal year for the clinics and whatever money is needed for the research.

Title 30, §937

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(a)Construction, purchase, and operation of fixed-site and mobile clinical facilities

The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to enter into contracts with, and make grants to, public and private agencies and organizations and individuals for the construction, purchase, and operation of fixed-site and mobile clinical facilities for the analysis, examination, and treatment of respiratory and pulmonary impairments in active and inactive coal miners. The Secretary shall coordinate the making of such contracts and grants with the Appalachian Regional Commission.

(b)Research activities

The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall initiate research within the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and is authorized to make research grants to public and private agencies and organizations and individuals for the purpose of devising simple and effective tests to measure, detect, and treat respiratory and pulmonary impairments in active and inactive coal miners. Any grant made pursuant to this subsection shall be conditioned upon all information, uses, products, processes, patents, and other developments resulting from such research being available to the general public, except to the extent of such exceptions and limitations as the Secretary of Health and Human Services may deem necessary in the public interest.

(c)Authorization of appropriations

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of subsection (a) of this section $10,000,000 for each fiscal year. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the purposes of subsection (b) of this section such sums as are necessary.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1978—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95–239 substituted “$10,000,000 for each fiscal year” for “$10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending

June 30, 1973,

June 30, 1974, and

June 30, 1975”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsecs. (a) and (b) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Effective Date

of 1978 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–239 effective Mar. 1, 1978, see section 20(a) of Pub. L. 95–239, set out as a note under section 901 of this title.

§937 Contracts and Grants