An Act to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a National Eye Institute in the National Institutes of Health
PL 90-489 (H.R.12843), enacted 08/15/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-489-AUG. 16, 1968 
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SEC. 7. Section 809(f) is amended by changing "$50,000,000" to 
"$100,000,000". 
SEC. 8. Section 312 is amended by (a) revising subsection (4) to 
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read as follows: "(4) financing land and water development, use, and 
conservation,"; (b) inserting new items (5) and (6) to read as 
follows: "(5) without regard to the requirements of section 311 (2) 
and (3), to individual farmers or ranchers to finance outdoor recrea- 
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tional enterprises or to convert to recreiational uses their farming or 
rancihing operations, including those heretofore financed under this 
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title, (6) enterprises needed to supplement farm income,"; and (c) 
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by renumbering the present items "(5), (6), and (7)" to "(7), (8), 
\ and (9)". 
SEC. 9. Secition 313 is amended by changing the colon after "$35,000" 
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jto a comma, and by striking the proviso in item (1). 
"" SEC. 10. Section 316 is amended by (a) striking from the first sen- 
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tence "at an interest rate not to exceed 5 per centum per annum," and 
(b) adding at the end of the section the following: "Loans made under 
this subtitle shall bear interest at a rate determined by the Secretary 
of the Treasury taking into consideration the current average mar-
ket yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States 
with remaining periods to maturity comparable to the average matu-
rities of such loans, adjusted to the nearest one-eighth of 1 per centum, 
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plus not to exceed 1 per centum per annum as determined by the 
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Secretary." 
SEC. 11. Section 331 is amended by adding a new subsection (f) at the 
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end thereof to read as follows: 
"(f) Release mortgage and other contract liens if it appears that 
^ they have no present or prospective value or that their enforcement 
likely would be ineffectual or uneconomical." 
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SEC. 12. Section 333(b) of the Consolidated Farmers Home Admin- 
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( istration Act of 1961 is amended by striking the word "farming". 
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Approved August 15, 1968; 
Public Law 90-489 
AN ACT 
August 16, 1968 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the establishment of a 
[H-R. 12843] 
National Eye Institute in the National Institutes of Health. 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That title IV of the 
National Eye in-
Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C, ch. 6A, subch. I l l ) is amended ^^EsSabUshraent. 
by adding at the end thereof the following new part: 
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PART h—JSATIONAL 
EYE INSTITUTE 
289h. 
"ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE 
"SEC^ 451. The Secretary is authorized to establish in the Public 
Health Service an institute for the conduct and support of research 
for new treatment and cures and training relating to blinding eye 
diseases and visual disorders, including research and training in tne 
special health problems and requirements of the blind and in the basic 
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and clinical sciences relating to the mechanism of the visual function 
and preservation of sight. The Secretary is also authorized to plan for 
research and training, especially against the main causes of blindness 
and loss of visual function. 
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Research. 
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Training and in-
struction; fellow-
ships, grants, etc. 
"Institute for 
Neurological 
Diseases.*' 
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ESTABLISHMENT OF ADVISORY COUNCIL 
"SEC. 452. (a) The Secretary is authorized to establish an advisory 
council to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to him on 
matters relating to the activities of the National Eye Institute. 
"(b) The provisions relating to the composition, terms of office of 
members, and reappointment of members of advisory councils under 
section 432(a) shall be applicable to the council established under this 
section, except that the Secretary may include on such council estab-
lished under this section such additional ex officio members as he deems 
necessary. 
"(c) Upon appointment of such council, it shall assume all or such 
part as the Secretary may specify of the duties, functions, and powers 
of the National Advisory Health Comjcil relating to the research or 
training projects with which such council established under this part 
is.concerned and such portion as the Secretary p a y specify of the 
duties, functions, and powers of any other advisory council estab-
lished under this Act relating to such projects. 
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FUNCTIONS 
"SEC. 453. The Secretary shall, through the National Eye Institute 
established under this part, carry out the purposes of section 301 with 
respect to the conduct and support of research with respect to blinding 
eye diseases and visual disorders associated with general health and 
well-being, including the special health problems and requirements of 
the blind and the mechanism of sight and visual function, except that 
the Secretary shall determine the areas in which and the extent to 
which he will carry out such purposes of section 301 through such 
Institute or an institute established by or under other provisions of 
this Act, or both of them, when both such institutes have functions with 
respect to the same subject matter. The Secretary is also authorized to 
provide training and instruction and establish and maintain trainee-
ships and fellowships, in the National Eye Institute and elsewhere 
in matters relating to diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of blinding 
eye diseases and visual disorders with such stipends and allowances 
(including travel and subsistence expenses) for trainees and fellows 
as he deems necessary, and, in addition, provide for such training, 
instruction, and traineeshii)s and for such fellowships through grants 
to public or other nonprofit institutions." 
The name of the institute for neurological diseases and blindness is 
hereby changed to "the Institute for Neurological Diseases." 
Approved August 16, 1968.