‘‘(e) NUMBER AND DURATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall provide 
for the establishment of not fewer than 4 programs 
under subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) DURATION.—Except as provided in para-
graph (3), a grant or contract awarded under sub-
section (a) shall not exceed a period of 5 years. 
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL PERIODS.— 
‘‘(A) EXTENSION.—The period of a grant 
or contract awarded under subsection (a) may 
be extended for 1 or more additional periods 
not exceeding 5 years if the operations of the 
program involved have been reviewed by an ap-
propriate technical and scientific peer review 
group established by the Director of NIH and 
the group has recommended to the Director 
that such period should be extended. 
‘‘(B) AMOUNT.—The amount of any grant 
or contract under subsection (a) for an addi-
tional period described in subparagraph (A) 
shall not exceed $2,000,000 per fiscal year. 
‘‘(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed as precluding or otherwise affecting 
funding for any research on eating disorders in addition 
to the research funded under this section. 
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‘‘(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section, 
$20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. 
Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall be in 
addition to any other amounts appropriated for such pur-
pose.’’. 
SEC. 102. EATING DISORDERS SURVEILLANCE AND RE-
SEARCH PROGRAM. 
Title III of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
241 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following: 
‘‘PART S—PROGRAMS RELATING TO EATING 
DISORDERS 
‘‘SEC. 399FF. EATING DISORDERS SURVEILLANCE AND RE-
SEARCH PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS SURVEILLANCE 
PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary, acting 
through the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention and in consultation with 
leading eating disorders researchers and clinicians— 
‘‘(A) shall provide for the collection, anal-
ysis, and reporting of epidemiological data on 
eating disorders through the existing surveil-
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lance programs of the Centers, such as the Be-
havioral Risk Factor Surveillance System; 
‘‘(B) shall make recommendations to en-
hance existing surveillance programs of the 
Centers, such as the Behavioral Risk Factor 
Surveillance System, to more accurately collect 
epidemiological data on disordered eating and 
eating disorders; 
‘‘(C) may award grants and cooperative 
agreements and may provide direct technical as-
sistance to eligible entities for the collection, 
analysis, and reporting of such data; and 
‘‘(D) shall examine and improve require-
ments for reporting deaths on death certificates 
to accurately account for those cases in which 
an eating disorder is the underlying or contrib-
uting cause of death. 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible to receive a 
grant or cooperative agreement under paragraph 
(1)(B), an entity shall be a public or nonprofit pri-
vate entity (including a health department of a State 
or political subdivisions of a State, a university, or 
any other educational institution), and submit to the 
Secretary an application at such time, in such man-
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