[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 29, 2013)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-25432]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part N, National Institutes of Health (NIH), of the Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the 
Department of Health and Human Services (40 FR 22859, May 27, 1975, as 
amended most recently at 77 FR 1941, January 12, 2012, and redesignated 
from Part HN as Part N at 60 FR 56605, November 9, 1995), is amended as 
set forth below to reflect a functional statement amendment for the 
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human 
Development (NICHD).
    Section N-T, Organization and Functions, under the heading Eunice 
Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human 
Development (NICHD) (NT, formerly HNT), is revised as follows:
    (1) Provides leadership and formulates research goals and long-term 
plans to accomplish the Institute's mission of child health; maternal 
health; problems of human development, with special reference to 
intellectual and developmental disabilities; family structure and the 
dynamics of human population; the reproductive process; and medical 
rehabilitation; (2) conducts, fosters, and supports biomedical and 
behavioral research through research grants, research contracts, and 
research performed in its own laboratories; (3) supports training in 
fundamental sciences and clinical disciplines through individual and 
institutional research training awards; (4) promotes the application of 
research findings to clinical practice; (5) cooperates in government-
wide efforts to improve health and provides consultation to Federal 
agencies and non-Federal groups in the development of programs to 
improve health; (6) coordinates and integrates research efforts with 
service-oriented health agencies; and (7) disseminates information 
related to research findings to practitioners and the general public 
for improving health.
    Delegations of Authority Statement: All delegations and 
redelegations of authority to officers and employees of NIH that were 
in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this 
reorganization and are consistent with this reorganization shall 
continue in effect, pending further redelegation.

    Dated: September 30, 2013.
Francis S. Collins,
Director.
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