42 U.S.C. § 300cc–2: Requirements with respect…

Summary

Requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management or the Administrator of General Services to answer any priority request from the heads of SAMHSA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, or the National Institutes of Health within 21 days. If they do not disapprove the request within 21 days, the request is treated as approved. Each agency head must send a copy of every priority request to the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on the same day the request is made. Priority request: a request the named agency head calls “priority” that either asks OPM for personnel to carry out activities related to acquired immune deficiency syndrome or asks GSA for administrative help or space for those activities.

Title 42, §300cc–2

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(a)In general

The Director of the Office of Personnel Management or the Administrator of General Services, as the case may be, shall respond to any priority request made by the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, or the Director of the National Institutes of Health, not later than 21 days after the date on which such request is made. If the Director of the Office of Personnel Management or the Administrator of General Services, as the case may be, does not disapprove a priority request during the 21-day period, the request shall be deemed to be approved.

(b)Notice to Secretary and to Assistant Secretary for Health

The Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, and the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall, respectively, transmit to the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health a copy of each priority request made under this section by the agency head involved. The copy shall be transmitted on the date on which the priority request involved is made.

(c)“Priority request” defined

For purposes of this section, the term “priority request” means any request that—

(1)is designated as a priority request by the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, or the Director of the National Institutes of Health; and

(2)(A)is made to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management for the allocation of personnel to carry out activities with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome; or

(B)is made to the Administrator of General Services for administrative support or space in carrying out such activities.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 300cc–2, act July 1, 1944, § 2303, was successively renumbered by subsequent acts and transferred, see section 238b of this title.

Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”. Pub. L. 102–321, § 161, substituted “Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration” for “Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”. Pub. L. 102–321, § 163(b)(7)(A), substituted “Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration” for “Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration”. Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”. Pub. L. 102–321, § 163(b)(7)(B), substituted “Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration” for “Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1992 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 102–321 effective Oct. 1, 1992, see section 801(c) of Pub. L. 102–321, set out as a note under section 236 of this title.

§300cc–2 Requirements with Respect to Processing of Requests for Personnel and Administrative Support