12 2 STA T .3984PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 3 5 4 —O CT. 8 , 2008 PublicLaw1 1 0–354 110 thCongres s A n Act Toamendth e PublicH ealth S e rv ice A ct to authori z e the D irector o f the N ational I n s titute of E nvironmental Health Sciences to ma k e g rants for the develo p ment and operation of research centers regarding environmental factors that ma y be related to the etiology of breast cancer .Beit e nac te dby t h e S enate and Hous eo fR e pr esentati v es of the U nited States of Am erica in C on g ress assemb l ed ,SECTION1. S H O R T TIT L E. ThisActmaybe cite d as the ‘ ‘ Br east C a n cer and E n v ir o nmenta lR esearch Act o f20 0 8’ ’ . SEC. 2 .E XPA N D IN G COLLA B ORATI V E RESEARCH ON BREAST CANCER AND THE ENVIRON M ENT. ( a )INGE NE RAL . —Su b p art 1 ofpartCoftitleI V of the P ublic H ealth Service Act ( 4 2 U .S.C. 28 5 et se q .) is amended by addin g at the end the follo w ing
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‘SEC. 4 1 7F . INTERAGENC Y BREAST CANCER AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COORDINATING COMMITTEE. ‘‘(a) IN T ERA G EN CY BREA S T CANCER AN D EN VI R O N M ENTAL RESEARC H COORDINATING COMMITTEE.— ‘‘(1) ESTA B LISHMENT.— N ot later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this section , the Secretary shall estab - lish a committee, to be k nown as the Interagency Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Coordinating Committee (in this section referred to as the ‘Committee’). ‘‘(2) DU TIES.—The Committee shall— ‘‘(A) share and coordinate information on e x isting research activities, and make recommendations to the National Institutes of Health and other F ederal agencies regarding how to improve existing research programs, that are related to breast cancer research
‘‘(B) develop a comprehensive strategy and advise the National Institutes of Health and other Federal agencies in the solicitation of proposals for collaborative, multidisci- plinary research, including proposals to evaluate environ- mental and genomic factors that may be related to the etiology of breast cancer that would— ‘‘(i) result in innovative approaches to study emerging scientific opportunities or eliminate knowl- edge gaps in research to improve the research portfolio; ‘‘(ii) outline key research questions, methodologies, and knowledge gaps; Deadlin e .42USC 2 85 a –1 2. 42USC2 0 1n ot e. Br ea s t Can c er and E n v iron m ental R esearc hA cto f 2008. O ct. 8 , 2008 [H .R. 115 7]
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