in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare Network, 5 Inter-
national Early Lung Cancer Action Program sites, 10 
community health centers for minority and underserved 
populations, and additional sites as the Secretary deter-
mines appropriate, as sites to carry out the demonstration 
project described under this section. 
(e) QUALITY STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES FOR LI-
CENSING OF TOMOGRAPHY SCREENING FACILITIES.—The 
Secretary shall establish quality standards and guidelines 
for the licensing of hospitals, outpatient departments, clin-
ics, radiology practices, mobile units, physician offices, or 
other facilities that conduct computed tomography screen-
ing for lung cancer through the demonstration project, 
that will require the establishment and maintenance of a 
quality assurance and quality control program at each 
such facility that is adequate and appropriate to ensure 
the reliability, clarity, and accuracy of the equipment and 
interpretation of the screening scan and set appropriate 
standards to control the levels of radiation dose. 
(f) TIMEFRAME.—The Secretary shall conduct the 
demonstration project under this section for a 5-year pe-
riod. 
(g) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a re-
port to Congress on the projected cost of the demonstra-
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tion project, and shall submit annual reports to Congress 
thereafter on the progress of the demonstration project 
and preliminary findings. 
SEC. 7. LUNG CANCER ADVISORY BOARD. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall establish a Lung Cancer Advisory 
Board (referred to in this section as the ‘‘Board’’) to mon-
itor the programs established under this Act (and the 
amendments made by this Act), and provide annual re-
ports to Congress concerning benchmarks, expenditures, 
lung cancer statistics, and the public health impact of such 
programs. 
(b) COMPOSITION.—The Board shall be composed 
of— 
(1) the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices; 
(2) the Secretary of Defense; 
(3) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; 
(4) the Director of the Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration; 
(5) the Director of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology; and 
(6) one representative each from the fields of 
clinical medicine focused on lung cancer, lung cancer 
research, radiology, imaging research, drug develop-
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ment, minority health advocacy, veterans service or-
ganizations, lung cancer advocacy, and occupational 
medicine to be appointed by the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
To carry out this Act (and the amendments made by 
this Act), there are authorized to be appropriated such 
sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2012 
through 2016. 
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