PUBLIC LAW 101-374—AUG. 15, 1990 104 STAT. 457 section, is amended by striking "$100,000,000" and inserting "$140,000,000 ". (3) AVAILABILITY OF CERTAIN FUNDS. —Notwithstanding section 307 of Public Law 101-164, amounts appropriated in such Public Law for the purpose of carrying out section 509E of the Public Health Service Act shall remain available for obligation for such purpose through December 31, 1990. (d) REPORT.— Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration shall prepare and submit to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, a report concerning the waiting-period-reduction grant program under section 509E of the Public Health Service Act. Such report shall include— (1) a list and description of the programs that have been awarded grants under such section; (2) with respect to the process by which funds awarded under such section are expended for treatment services for drug abuse, a description of the extent to which such process is different than the process by which funds received by the States under subpart B of title XJX of such Act are expended by entities to which the States have awarded such funds for the purpose of providing treatment services (including a description of the extent to which there are differences in the 2 processes in the manner in which the providers of such treatment services obligate and draw down funds); (3) an assessment of the validity of waiting lists as a measure of treatment need and, if the report concludes that waiting lists are not the most accurate measure of treatment need, a description of other, more accurate means of measuring the need for treatment services within a specified geographic area; (4) the views of State, local, and nongovernmental treatment experts with respect to the validity of waiting lists as a measure of treatment need and with respect to the efficacy of the waiting period reduction grant program; and (5) an assessment of the effectiveness of the treatment programs that receive funding under such section, including the usefulness of mechanisms, such as drug testing, that detect renewed substance abuse, and information with respect to the current use of such mechanisms. (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section and the amendments made by this section shall take effect upon the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR CERTAIN DRUG ABUSE DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS. (a) IN GENERAL.— Section 517 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290CC-1) is amended by striking "There are" and all that follows through "section 515" and inserting the following: "For the purpose of carrying out this subpart, there are authorized to be appropriated". (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect October 1, 1990, or upon the date of the enactment of this Act, whichever occurs later. 42 USC 290aa-12 note. 42 USC 290CC-2. 42 USC 290CC-2 note.
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