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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 2103. Authority of President
(a) Use of foreign currencies and credits
It is the sense of Congress that the President should use his
authority under the Constitution and laws of the United States to
accomplish the purposes of section 2101 of this title and in
accomplishing such purposes (1) use to the fullest extent
practicable foreign currencies or credits available for utilization
by the United States, (2) enter into agreements to use foreign
currencies and credits available to other nations for use with the
agreement of the United States, and (3) use any other foreign
currencies and credits which may be made available by participating
foreign countries.
(b) Disease and health deficiency investigations, experiments, and
studies; rehabilitation
To carry out the purposes of section 2101 of this title the
President, in cooperation with participating foreign countries, is
authorized to encourage, support, and promote the planning and
conduct of, and training for, research investigations, experiments,
and studies in the United States and in participating foreign
countries relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control,
and prevention of diseases and impairments of mankind (including
nutritional and other health deficiencies) or to the rehabilitation
of the handicapped.
(c) Fellowships; equipment; technical assistance; interchange of
scientists and experts; compensation and travel expenses; health
science programs and projects; meetings and conferences;
scientific publications
To carry out his responsibilities under this chapter the
President may -
(1) establish and maintain fellowships in participating foreign
countries;
(2) make financial grants to establish and maintain
fellowships, and for other purposes, to public institutions and
agencies and to nonprofit private institutions and agencies, and
to individuals in participating foreign countries, or contract
with such institutions, agencies, or individuals without regard
to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 5 of title 41;
(3) make grants or loans of equipment, medical, biological,
physical, or chemical substances or other materials, for use by
such institutions, agencies, or individuals;
(4) furnish technical assistance and advice to such
institutions or agencies and in carrying out such purposes may
pay the compensation and expenses of scientists and experts from
the United States and other participating foreign countries;
(5) facilitate the interchange among participating foreign
countries of scientists and experts (including the payment of
travel and subsistence for such scientists and experts when away
from their places of residence);
(6) cooperate and assist in the planning and conduct of
research, research planning, and research training programs and
projects by groups engaged in, or concerned with, research or
research training endeavors in the health sciences, and, through
financial grants or other appropriate means, assist in special
research, research planning, or research training projects
conducted by or under the auspices of such groups where they can
effectively carry out such activities contemplated by this joint
resolution;
(7) encourage and support international communication in the
sciences relating to health by means of calling or cooperating in
the convening, and financing or contributing to the financing of
the expenses of, international scientific meetings and
conferences; and provide, or arrange for the provision of,
translating and other services, and issue or finance
publications, leading to a more effective dissemination of
relevant scientific information with respect to research
conducted in the United States or participating foreign
countries.
(d) Programs of an operational nature excepted from assistance
The activities authorized in this section shall not extend to the
support of public health, medical care, or other programs of an
operational nature as contrasted with research and research
training nor shall any of the grants authorized by this section
include grants for the improvement or extension of public health
administration in other countries except for necessary research and
research training in the science of public health and public health
administration.
(e) Consultants; advisory committees; compensation and travel
expenses
The President is authorized, to the extent he deems it necessary
to carry out the purposes of section 2101 of this title, to employ
experts and consultants or organizations thereof, as authorized by
section 3109 of title 5 and create a committee or committees to be
composed entirely of persons who are citizens of the United States
to advise him in the administration of this chapter, individuals so
employed and members of committees shall be entitled to receive
compensation at a rate to be fixed by the President, but not to
exceed $50 per diem, including travel time, and while away from
their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed
travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as
authorized by section 5703 of title 5 for persons in the Government
service employed intermittently.
(f) Delegation of authority; regulations
The President may delegate any authority vested in him by this
section to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The
Secretary may from time to time issue such regulations as may be
necessary to carry out any authority which is delegated to him
under this section, and may delegate performance of any such
authority to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, the
Director of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Chief of
the Children's Bureau, or other subordinates acting under his
direction.
(g) Use of foreign currencies and credits
In order to carry out the purposes of section 2101 of this title,
and subject to section 1306 of title 31, the President may use or
enter into agreements with foreign nations or organizations of
nations to use the foreign currencies which accrue under title I of
the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 [7
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.], and the Mutual Security Act of 1954, or which
are otherwise available for utilization by the United States. The
President is authorized to agree to the utilization by foreign
nations, for programs designed to carry out the purposes of section
2101 of this title in cooperation with the United States, of
amounts deposited in special accounts pursuant to section 142(b)
(!1) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, to the extent that the
amounts in such accounts exceed the requirements of other programs
covered by such section 142(b). Such utilization of amounts in
special accounts shall be without regard to the second proviso in
clause (iii) of such section 142(b).
(h) Repealed. Pub. L. 105-362, title VI, Sec. 601(a)(2)(F), Nov.
10, 1998, 112 Stat. 3286
(i) Definitions
For the purposes of this section -
(1) the term "health research" shall include, but not be
limited to, research, investigations, and studies relating to
causes and methods of prevention of accidents, including but not
limited to highway and aviation accidents.
(2) the term "participating foreign countries" means those
foreign countries which cooperate with the United States in
carrying out the purposes of this section.
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