[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 156 (Monday, August 14, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 46495]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-13305]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health


Statement of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of 
Authority

    Part N, National Institutes of Health, of the Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (40 FR 22859, May 27, 
1975, as amended most recently at 70 FR 61146, October 20, 2005, and 
redesignated from Part HN as Part N at 60 FR 56606, November 9, 1995), 
is amended as set forth below to reflect the reorganization of the NIH 
Ethics Office.
    Section N-B, Organization and Functions, is amended by replacing 
the current section NAT (formerly HNAT) with the following:
    NIH Ethics Office (NAT, formerly HNAT). (1) Provides oversight and 
strategic direction of NIH activities relating to ethics policy, 
oversight, and operational activities; (2) develops and administers the 
NIH policies and procedures for implementing the Government-wide 
conflict of interest statutes and regulations, the HHS supplemental 
conflict of interest regulations, and HHS policies; (3) implements a 
program for trans-NIH ethics oversight that includes information 
technology (IT) support systems, periodic reviews, audits, delegations 
of authority, training, and records management; and (4) determines real 
or potential conflicts of interest and assesses ethical considerations 
in scientific reporting, clinical trials, and scientific conferences 
and workshops.
    Division of IC Operations and Liaison (NAT2, formerly HNAT2). (1) 
Provides centralized operational services to ICs in the review and 
processing of: (a) Individual ethics actions and (b) ethics actions 
having IC-wide impact such as preapproval of awards, and blanket 
approval of widely attended gatherings (WAGs); (2) provides advisory 
services in the management of IC ethics reviews; and (3) provides 
ethics services for the Office of the Director, NIH.
    Division of Policy and Management Review (NAT3, formerly HNAT3). 
(1) Provides technical review of NIH and IC Ethics Programs and 
conducts risk assessment; (2) develops NIH-wide policies and procedures 
to ensure a rigorous NIH Ethics Program; (3) manages ethics delegations 
of authority; (4) develops and manages content for the NIH Ethics Web 
site; and (5) provides NIH-wide ethics training to staff.

    Delegations of Authority: All delegations and redelegations of 
authority to officers and employees of NIH that were in effect 
immediately prior to the effective date of this amendment and are 
consistent with this amendment shall continue in effect, pending 
further redelegation.

    Dated: August 4, 2006.
Elias A. Zerhouni,
Director, National Institutes of Health.
[FR Doc. E6-13305 Filed 8-11-06; 8:45 am]
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