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                COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                         WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548



B-197871                              March 18, 1980



The Honorable Harley 0. Staggers                       Ar-''01 i
Chairman, Committee on Interstate
  and Foreign Commerce                00               ACz53S
House of Representatives

Dear Mr. Chairman:

     Subject: Comments on H.R. 6522 (HRO-BILL-10)

     Your February 15, 1980, letter equeste    ur comments
on H.R. 6522, a bill to amend the Pub -IcHealth Service Act,
to revise and extend the authorities under that act relating
to national research institutes, and for other purposes.

     Our'comments on the proposed sections of the Public
Health Service Act contained in H.R. 6522 are as follows:

     1. Section 401 specifies 11 institutes as agencies of
        the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and permits
        the Secretary of HEW to establish other institutes
        relating to particular diseases or groups of diseases
        or any other aspect of human health. Neither this
        section of the bill nor any other makes reference
        to the Division of Research Resources (DRR) which is
        an operating entity within NIH. In 1962 the Secre-
        tary of HEW established DRR as a division within NIH
        separate from any of the research institutes. Sec-
        tions 301 and 472 of the Public Health Service Act
        are used as authorizing legislation for programs
        carried out by DRR which include support for clinical,
        biotechnology, and biomedical research. DRR is funded
        separately from the research institutes and has a
        budget larger than four of the institutes. Because
        of the importance of DRR both from a programmatic
        and budgetary standpoint, we believe that DRR should
        be acknowledged as an operating entity of NIH in
        authorizing legislation and its functions formally
        stated.

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