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B-202261 1 (1981-05-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkat0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-202261 May 14, 1981 The Honorable Orrin C. Hatch Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: At your request we are providing/comments on Senate Bill 290, 97th CongresS. The bill would amend the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish, through the National Institute of Neurological, Communicative Disorders, and Stroke (NINCDS), a Reye's Syndrome Coordinating Committee. It would authorize the Committee to award research grants and contracts and to establish and dispatch Reye's mobile research teams. The bill would require the Secretary, within 6 months after the end of the Committee's 3-year authorization, to report to the Congress on the Committee's activities, accomplishments, research findings, and recommendations for further action. Special coordinating committees have previously been established by the Public Health Service Act to combat diabetes, arthritis, and digestive diseases. However, S.290 would be precedent-setting in the following ways. First, the existing coordinating committees are not authorized to.award research grants and contracts. Such grants and contracts are awarded by several institutes within the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The fiscal year 1982 budget justification for NINCDS states that NINCD S has solicited applications for research projects to study Reye's Syndrome. The justification states also that NINCDS intends to make at least one program project grant to a group of researchers at the same institution to work on projects related to Reye's Syndrome. An NIH official told us that proposals for Peye's Syndrome research have started to arrive and that research funding in this area probably will increase in the coming years. (HRI-BILL-05) .... ..............

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