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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part C (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the 
Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority of 
the Department of Health and Human Services (45 FR 67772-76, dated 
October 14, 1980, and corrected at 45 FR 69296, October 20, 1980, as 
amended most recently at 64 FR 25897, dated May 13, 1999) is amended to 
reflect the reoganization of the Scientific Resources Program, National 
Center for Infectious Diseases.
    Section C-B, Organization and Functions, is hereby amended as 
follows:
    After the title for the Scientific Resources Program (CRL), delete 
the functional statement and insert the following:
    (1) Provides animals, animal and human blood products, glassware, 
mammalian tissue cultures, microbiological media, special reagents, and 
other laboratory materials in support of research and service 
activities to NCID laboratories and other CDC organizations; (2) 
installs, fabricates, modifies, services, and maintains laboratory 
equipment used in the research and service activities of CDC; (3) 
develops and implements applied research programs to expand and enhance 
the use of animal models necessary to support research and diagnostic 
programs and to improve breeding and husbandry procedures; (4) conducts 
both basic and applied research in cell biology and in the expansion of 
tissue culture technology as a research and diagnostic tool for 
infectious disease activities; (5) provides services for NCID 
investigators in protein and DNA synthesis and sequencing; (6) 
maintains a bank of serum and other biological specimens of 
epidemiological and special significance to CDC's research and 
diagnostic activities; (7) obtains and distributes experimental and 
orphaned vaccines, drugs, antisera, antitoxins, and immune globulins; 
(8) manages and distributes the inventory, maintains the computerized 
system database, and provides general technical service support for 
dispensing, lyophilizing, capping, and labeling CDC Reference Reagents; 
(9) provides support for liquid nitrogen freezers; (10) 
administratively and technically supports the CDC Animal Policy Board 
and the Atlanta Area Animal Care and Use Committee; (11) provides 
computer support services for the Program's activities; (12) receives, 
categorizes, processes and distributes specimens to CDC laboratories 
for reference diagnostic testing, research studies, and epidemics and 
reports diagnostic test results to submitting organizations; (13) 
manages all CDC exports and ensures compliance with regulations and 
serves as CDC liaison with Department of Commerce for export related 
issues; (14) maintains the CDC Atlanta laboratory water treatment 
systems; (15) provides collaborative development and production 
services to produce high priority reference reagents and specialized 
diagnostics for internal NCID investigators.

    Dated: October 25, 1999.
Jeffrey P. Koplan,
Director.
[FR Doc. 99-28739 Filed 11-2-99; 8:45 am]
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