health to a biennial report. It requires uniform criteria to be developed for consideration of applications for drug abuse prevention programs. It requires increased coordination of planning among state and local drug abuse planning agencies, health planning agencies, and educational agencies. These changes should foster decreased paperwork and increased program efficiency.

Finally, enactment of S. 2916 would not affect the personal privacy of the individuals affected by the programs it extends or establishes, since the protective provisions of existing law would remain in effect.

IX. SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS

S. 2916 revises and extends the Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act of 1972 (hereinafter referred to as the "Act").

Section 1. Short Title

This section cites this act as the "Drug Abuse Office, Prevention, and Treatment Amendments of 1978".

Section 2. Amendment to Title of Act and Extension of Sections 409, 410, and 503

Subsection (a) amends the title of the Act to read as follows: "The Drug Abuse Office, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 1972".

Subsection (b) extends for one year through fiscal year 1979, the authorization of appropriations under section 409 of the Act for state drug abuse formula grants at a level of $45 million.

Subsection (c) amends section 410 of the Act to require that drug abuse project grants and contracts be awarded through the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Subsection (d) extends for one year through fiscal year 1979, the authorization of appropriations under section 410 of the Act for drug abuse project grants and contracts at a level of $177 million. The subsection specifically divides these authorizations between those for treatment programs ($153 million for fiscal year 1979) and those for prevention, demonstration and other programs and activities ($24 million for fiscal year 1979).

Subsection (e) extends for one year through fiscal year 1979, the authorization of appropriations under section 503 of the Act for research grants and contracts at a level of $7 million. The research supported under this section involves the creation, development and testing of nonaddictive (or less addictive) analgesics, antitussives, blocking (or antagonistic) drugs for the treatment of heroin addiction, and detoxification agents to ease heroin addiction withdrawal.

Section 3. Reports, Technical Assistance

Subsection (a) eliminates the current reporting requirement under section 405(b) of the Act and requires in place of such report that the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, not later than January 15 of each year, transmit to the President and the Congress a report with respect to each fiscal year on the following:

(1) the health consequences and extent of drug abuses in the United States,

(2) a description and evaluation of the effectiveness of the drug abuse prevention functions carried out through any entity of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the fiscal year for which the report is made.

(3) a description of the manner in which such functions were carried out and a description and evaluation of the coordination within the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in carrying out such functions,

(4) a description and evaluation of the effectiveness of experimental methods and programs implemented in carrying out their drug abuse prevention functions, and a description and evaluation of information respecting such methods and programs, and

(5) proposals for changes in the drug abuse prevention functions carried out by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (including recommendations for legislation).

Subsection (b) amends section 405 of the Act to require the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, within 120 days after the date of enactment of the bill to submit a report to Congress on drug abuse in rural areas. The report shall address the extent and nature of drug abuse in rural areas, the special needs and circumstances which must be addressed in providing drug abuse prevention functions to these areas, and specific recommendations to alleviate such drug abuse.

Subsection (c) amends section 502(b) of the Act to require the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse to provide uniform forms for, procedures for the submission of, and criteria for the consideration of applications of State and local governments and individuals for grants and contracts of drug abuse prevention programs. Section 4. Annual Strategy

This section amends section 302 of the Act to require that the Federal Drug Abuse Strategy, promulgated annually by the President's Strategy Council, shall include a mechanism to identify, provide for and evaluate effective drug abuse prevention programs, with particular emphasis on primary prevention programs, with equal attention to the needs of metropolitan and rural areas.

Section 5. Formula Grants, State Plan Requirements

Subsection (a) amends section 409 (e) of the Act dealing with annual state plans to require that such plans provide assurance that the single state drug abuse agency coordinate its planning with local drug abuse planning agencies and with state and local health planning agencies and educational agencies.

Subsection (b) amends section 409 (e) of the Act to require that state plans be submitted not later than July 31 of each calendar year. Existing law requires such reports to be submitted by July 15. Section 6. Scientific Peer Review

This section adds a new section 504 to the Act to require the Secretary, acting through the National Institute on Drug Abuse, to provide for review of all research grants and contracts and all training, treatment and prevention activity grants and programs, by utilizing to the maximum extent possible, appropriate peer review groups composed principally of non-Federal scientists and other experts in the field of drug abuse.

This section amends section 502 of the Marijuana and Health Reporting Act (Public Law 91-296) to require that report to be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare on a biennial basis. Existing law requires an annual report.

X. CHANGES IN EXISTING Law

In compliance with subsection 4 of rule XXIX of the Standing Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the bill are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman):

DRUG ABUSE OFFICE AND TREATMENT ACT OF 1972 § Short title.

This Act may be cited as the "Drug Abuse Office, Prevention, and Treatment Act of 1972".

TITLE I-FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY; DEFINITIONS; TERMINATION

§ 303. Content of strategy.

The strategy shall contain

(1) an analysis of the nature, character, and extent of the drug abuse problem in the United States, including examination of the interrelationships between various approaches to solving the drug abuse problem and their potential for interacting both positively and negatively with one another;

(2) a comprehensive Federal plan, with respect to both drug abuse prevention functions and drug traffic prevention functions, which shall specify the objectives of the Federal strategy and how all available resources, funds, programs, services, and facilities authorized under relevant Federal law should be used and shall include a mechanism to identify, provide for, and evaluate effective drug abuse prevention programs, especially for primary prevention designed to discourage persons from beginning drug abuse with equal attention to the needs of metropolitan areas and areas which are not urbanized areas as defined by the Bureau of the Census; and

(3) an analysis and evaluation of the major programs conducted, expenditures made, results achieved, plans developed, and problems encountered in the operation and coordination of the various Federal drug abuse prevention functions and drug traffic prevention functions.

TITLE IV-OTHER FEDERAL PROGRAMS

§ 405. Special reports by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

(a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter is this title referred to as the "Secretary") shall develop and submit to the Congress and the Director within ninety days after the date of enactment of this Act, a written plan for the administration and coordination of all drug abuse prevention functions within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Such report shall list each program conducted and each service provided in carrying out such functions, describe how such programs and services are to be coordinated, and describe the steps taken or to be taken to insure that such programs and services will be administered so as to encourage the broadest possible participation of professionals and paraprofessionals in the fields of medicine, science, the social sciences, and other related disciplines. The plan shall be consistent with the policies, prioriteis, and objectives established by the Director under section 221 of this Act.

[(b) The Secretary shall submit to the Director, for inclusion in the annual report required by section 233 of this Act, a report describing model and experimental methods and programs for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers, and describing the advantages of each such method and program and an evaluation of the success or failure of each such method or program. The Secretary's report shall contain recommendations for the development of new and improved methods and programs for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug abusers, for community implementation of such methods and programs, and for such legislation and administrative action as he deems appropriate.]

(b) The Secretary shall transmit a report to the President and the Congress with respect to each fiscal year on

(1) the health consequences and extent of drug abuse in the United States,

(2) a description and evaluation of the effectiveness of the drug abuse prevention functions carried through any entity of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the fiscal year for which the report is made,

(3) a description of the manner in which such functions were carried out, the amount of finds expended, and a description and evaluation of the coordination within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in carrying out such functions,

(4) a description and evaluation of the effectiveness of experimental methods and programs implemented in carrying out such functions, recommendations for implementation of such methods and programs by others in carrying out their drug abuse prevention functions, and a

description and evaluation of the effectivness of the means used to disseminate information respecting such methods and programs, and

(5) proposals for changes in the drug abuse prevention functions carried out through the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (including recommendations for legislation).

The report required by this subsection shall be transmitted not later than January 15 of each year.

(c) Within one hundred-twenty days of the date of enactment of the Drug Abuse Office, Prevention, and Treatment Amendments of 1978, the Secretary shall submit to the Congress a report on the extent and nature of drug abuse in rural areas, the special needs and circumstances which must be addressed in providing drug abuse prevention functions to these areas, and specific recommendations to alleviate drug abuse in rural areas. For purposes of this subsection, "rural areas" means areas that are nonurbanized areas as defined by the Bureau of the Census.

$409. Formula grants.

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(a) There are authorized to be appropriated $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972. $30,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, $40,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $45,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending June 30, 1975, and June 30, 1976, $11,250,000 for the period July 1, 1976 through September 30, 1976, and $45,000,000 for each of the fiscal years ending September 30, 1977, [and] September 30, 1978, and September 20, 1979, for grants to States in accordance with this section. For the purpose of this section, the term "State" includes the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in addition to the fifty States.

(b) Grants to States may be made under this section.

(1) for the preparation of plans which are intended to meet the requirements of subsection (e) of this section;

(2) for the expenses (other than State administrative expenses) of (A) carrying out projects under and otherwise implementing plans approved by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (f) of this section, and (B) evaluating the results of such plans as actually implemented; and

(3) for the State administrative expenses of carrying out plans approved by the Secretary pursuant to subsection (f) of this section, except that no grant under this paragraph to any State for any year may exceed $50,000 or 10 per centum of the total allotment of that State for that year, whichever is less.

(c)(1)(A) For each fiscal year the Secretary shall, in accordance with regulations, allot the sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) for such year among the States on the basis of the relative population, financial need, and the need for more effective conduct of drug abuse prevention functions, except that no such allotment to any State (other than the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands), shall be less than $100,000 multiplied by a fraction whose numerator is the amount actually appropriated for the purposes of this section for the fiscal year for