---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300cc–2"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300cc–2"
heading: "Requirements with respect to processing of requests for personnel and administrative support"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300cc-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXI — Research with Respect to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"
  - "Part A — Administration of Research Programs"
---

# §300cc–2. Requirements with respect to processing of requests for personnel and administrative support

- (a) **In general—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office of Personnel Management or the [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) of General [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), as the case may be, shall respond to any priority request made by the [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and [Drugs](/usc/42/11851.md?p=4), or the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institutes of Health, not later than 21 days after the date on which such request is made. If the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office of Personnel Management or the [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) of General [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a), as the case may be, does not disapprove a priority request during the 21-day period, the request shall be deemed to be approved.
- (b) **Notice to Secretary and to Assistant Secretary for Health—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and [Drugs](/usc/42/11851.md?p=4), and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institutes of Health, shall, respectively, transmit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) and the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/42/201.md?p=c) for Health a copy of each priority request made under this section by the [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) head involved. The copy shall be transmitted on the date on which the priority request involved is made.
- (c) **“Priority request” defined—** For purposes of this section, the term “priority request” means any request that—
  - (1) is designated as a priority request by the [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) Administration, the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Commissioner of Food and [Drugs](/usc/42/11851.md?p=4), or the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institutes of Health; and
  - (2)
    - (A) is made to the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Office of Personnel Management for the [allocation](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=2) of personnel to carry out activities with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome; or
    - (B) is made to the [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) of General [Services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) for administrative support or space in carrying out such activities.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXIII, § 2303, as added Pub. L. 100–607, title II, § 201(4), Nov. 4, 1988, 102 Stat. 3064; amended Pub. L. 102–321, title I, §§ 161, 163(b)(7), July 10, 1992, 106 Stat. 375, 376; Pub. L. 102–531, title III, § 312(d)(17), Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3505.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 300cc–2, act July 1, 1944, § 2303, was successively renumbered by subsequent acts and transferred, see section 238b of this title.

### Amendments

1992—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”.

Pub. L. 102–321, § 161, substituted “Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration” for “Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”.

Pub. L. 102–321, § 163(b)(7)(A), substituted “Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration” for “Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration”.

Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 102–531 substituted “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” for “Centers for Disease Control”.

Pub. L. 102–321, § 163(b)(7)(B), substituted “Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration” for “Administrator of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1992 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 102–321 effective Oct. 1, 1992, see section 801(c) of Pub. L. 102–321, set out as a note under section 236 of this title.