‘‘(3) a worker who responded to such attacks by 
assisting in the cleanup or restoration of critical in-
frastructure in and around; 
‘‘(4) a person whose place of residence is in the 
declared disaster area; 
‘‘(5) a person who is employed in or attends 
school, child care, or adult day care in a building lo-
cated in the declared disaster area; and 
‘‘(6) any other person whom the Secretary de-
termines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(c) AWARD RECIPIENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the submission 
of an application satisfactory to the Secretary, 
awards under subsection (a) shall be made only to— 
‘‘(A) the consortium of medical entities 
that, pursuant to the program referred to in 
subsection (g), provided health services de-
scribed in subsection (a) during fiscal year 
2003 for the personnel described in subsection 
(b)(1), subject to the consortium meeting the 
criteria established in paragraph (2); and 
‘‘(B) the separate program carried out by 
the New York City Fire Department. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA.—For purposes of paragraph 
(1)(A), the criteria described in this paragraph for
the consortium referred to in such paragraph are 
that the consortium has appropriate experience in 
the areas of environmental or occupational health, 
toxicology, and safety, including experience in—
‘‘(A) developing clinical protocols and con-
ducting clinical health examinations, including 
mental health assessments; 
‘‘(B) conducting long-term health moni-
toring and epidemiological studies; 
‘‘(C) conducting long-term mental health 
studies; and 
‘‘(D) establishing and maintaining medical 
surveillance programs and environmental expo-
sure or disease registries. 
‘‘(d) ELIGIBILITY OF COVERED INDIVIDUALS.—The 
Secretary shall determine eligibility criteria for covered in-
dividuals to receive health services under subsection (a). 
Such criteria shall include the requirement that a covered 
individual may not receive services through the program 
under such section unless the individual enrolls in the pro-
gram. 
‘‘(e) CERTAIN PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—With re-
spect to the program under subsection (a), the Secretary 
shall provide for the following:
‘‘(1) Awards under subsection (a) shall des-
ignate an amount to be available only for covered in-
dividuals who— 
‘‘(A) are active or retired firefighters of 
New York City; and 
‘‘(B) in responding to the terrorist attacks 
of September 11, 2001, provided services in the 
immediate vicinity of the World Trade Center. 
‘‘(2) A covered individual enrolled in the pro-
gram may not receive services under the program for 
a period exceeding 20 years after the date on which 
the individual first receives services under the pro-
gram, except that the Secretary may designate a 
longer period if the Secretary determines that a 
longer period is appropriate with respect to the 
health of covered individuals. 
‘‘(3) The program may not establish a max-
imum enrollment number of fewer than 40,000 cov-
ered individuals. 
‘‘(f) AUTHORITY
REGARDING
TREATMENT.—The 
Secretary may, to the extent determined appropriate by 
the Secretary, authorize the program under subsection (a) 
to provide treatment services to covered individuals who 
have no other means of obtaining treatment.
‘‘(g) RELATION TO CERTAIN PROGRAM.—Effective 
on and after the date of the enactment of the Remember 
9/11 Health Act, the two programs carried out pursuant 
to the appropriation of $90,000,000 made in Public Law 
107–206 under the heading ‘Public Health and Social 
Services Emergency Fund’, which programs provide 
health services described in subsection (a) for the per-
sonnel described in subsection (b)(1), shall be considered 
to be carried out under authority of this section and shall 
be subject to the requirements of this section, except for 
any period of transition determined appropriate by the 
Secretary, not to exceed one year after such date of enact-
ment.’’. 
(b) PROGRAMS
REGARDING
ATTACK
AT
PEN-
TAGON.—The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
may, to the extent determined appropriate by the Sec-
retary, establish with respect to the terrorist attack at the 
Pentagon on September 11, 2001, programs similar to the 
programs that are established in sections 317T and 409J 
of the Public Health Service Act with respect to the ter-
rorist attacks on such date in New York City, in the State 
of New York.
SEC. 4. RESEARCH REGARDING CERTAIN HEALTH CONDI-
TIONS. 
Part B of title IV of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 284 et seq.) is amended by inserting after sec-
tion 409I the following section: 
‘‘SEC. 409J. RESEARCH REGARDING CERTAIN HEALTH CON-
DITIONS OF INDIVIDUALS ASSISTING WITH 
RESPONSE TO SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST AT-
TACKS IN NEW YORK CITY. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—With respect to covered individ-
uals as defined in section 317T, the Director of NIH shall 
conduct or support— 
‘‘(1) diagnostic research on qualifying health 
conditions of such individuals, in the case of condi-
tions for which there has been diagnostic uncer-
tainty; and 
‘‘(2) research on treating qualifying health con-
ditions of such individuals, in the case of conditions 
for which there has been treatment uncertainty. 
‘‘(b) QUALIFYING HEALTH CONDITIONS.—For pur-
poses of this section, the term ‘qualifying health condi-
tions’ means adverse health conditions that are considered 
by the Secretary to be associated with exposure to one or 
more of the sites of the terrorist attacks that occurred on 
September 11, 2001, in New York City, in the State of 
New York.