---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285c–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285c–3"
heading: "Interagency coordinating committees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285c-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 3 — national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases"
---

# §285c–3. Interagency coordinating committees

- (a) **Establishment and purpose—** For the purpose of—
  - (1) better coordination of the research activities of all the national research institutes relating to diabetes mellitus, digestive diseases, and kidney, urologic, and hematologic diseases; and
  - (2) coordinating those aspects of all Federal health [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) and activities relating to such diseases to assure the adequacy and technical soundness of such [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) and activities and to provide for the full communication and [exchange](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-21) of information necessary to maintain adequate coordination of such [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) and activities;

  the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) shall establish a Diabetes Mellitus Interagency Coordinating Committee, a Digestive Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee, and a Kidney, Urologic, and Hematologic Diseases Coordinating Committee (hereafter in this section individually referred to as a “Committee”).

- (b) **Membership; chairman; meetings—** Each Committee shall be composed of the [Directors](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of each of the national research institutes and divisions involved in research with respect to the diseases for which the Committee is established, the Division [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute for the diseases for which the Committee is established, the Under [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) of Defense for Health Affairs (or the designees of such officers) and shall include representation from all other Federal departments and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) whose [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) involve health functions or responsibilities relevant to such diseases, as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c). Each Committee shall be chaired by the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of NIH (or the designee of the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5)). Each Committee shall meet at the call of the chairman, but not less often than four times a year.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 429, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 843; amended Pub. L. 100–527, § 10(4), Oct. 25, 1988, 102 Stat. 2641; Pub. L. 102–405, title III, § 302(e)(1), Oct. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 1985; Pub. L. 108–362, § 3, Oct. 25, 2004, 118 Stat. 1703; Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 104(b)(1)(H), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3693.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2007—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 109–482 struck out subsecs. (c) and (d) which required an annual report detailing the work of the Committee in carrying out subsec. (a) and an annual assessment on Federal pancreatic islet cell transplantation, respectively.

2004—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 108–362 added subsec. (d).

1992—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–405 substituted “Under Secretary for Health of the Department of Veterans Affairs” for “Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs”.

1988—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–527 substituted “Chief Medical Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs” for “Chief Medical Director of the Veterans’ Administration”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2007 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 109–482 applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as a note under section 281 of this title.

### Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 100–527 effective Mar. 15, 1989, see section 18(a) of Pub. L. 100–527, set out as a Department of Veterans Affairs Act note under section 301 of Title 38, Veterans’ Benefits.