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public health for nurses or engineers, in order to strengthen and 

 expand training in these areas. (Public Law 86-720) 



April 25, 1961: An amendment to the National Aeronautics and 

 Space Act of 1958 revised the membership and functions of the 

 National Aeronautics and Space Council and brought the Council 

 into the Executive Office of the President, with the Vice Presi- 

 dent as Chairman. (Public Law 87-26; 75 Stat. 46) 



June 14, 1961: The Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery 

 submitted a study entitled "Science Organization and the Presi- 

 dent's Office" to the Senate Committee on Government Oper- 

 ations, recommending the creation of an Office of Science and 

 Technology within the Executive Office of the President. 



September 22, 1961: the saline water conversion program was ex- 

 panded and extended by this act which amended the act of July 

 3, 1952. Authority of the Secretary of the Interior to conduct re- 

 search and development activities and to cooperate with other 

 Federal agencies was extended in considerable detail. (Public 

 Law 87-295; 75 Stat. 628) 



September 26, 1961: A United States Arms Control and Disarma- 

 ment Agency was established by this act. Section 31 of Title III 

 set forth for range of research activities which the Director was 

 authorized to engage in. The creation of a separate agency was 

 evidence of the United States intention to move ahead toward 

 agreements for reduction and control of armaments, including 

 thermonuclear, nuclear, missile, conventional, bacteriological, 

 chemical, and radiological weapons. (Public Law 87-297; 75 Stat. 

 631) 



June 8, 1982: In the absence of Congressional disapproval, Reorga- 

 nization Plan No. 2 of 1962, establishing the Office of Science and 

 Technology in the Executive Office of the President, became ef- 

 fective. The Plan transferred certain functions from the National 

 Science Foundation to the new OST relating to the coordination 

 of Federal policies for the promotion of basic research and educa- 

 tion in the sciences, and those functions with respect to the eval- 

 uation of scientific research programs of Federal agencies. (27 

 F.R. 5419) 



August 31, 1962: Communications Satellite Act of 1962 created a 

 private communication satellite system to serve the needs of the 

 United States and other countries. (Public Law 87-624; 76 Stat. 

 419) 



October 17, 1962: This act authorized the Surgeon General to estab- 

 lish the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the 

 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. 

 The latter was authorized to conduct and support research and 

 training related to maternal heatlh; child health; human devel- 

 opment, in pariticular the special health problems of mothers 

 and children; and the basic sciences relating to the processes of 

 human growth and development. The former was authorized to 

 conduct and support research in the basic medical sciences and 

 related behavioral sciences which have significance for two or 

 more institutes, or which are outside the general area of respon- 

 sibility of any other institute. (Public Law 87-838; 76 Stat. L. 

 1072) (On January 30, 1963, the National Insititute of Child 



