President. the legislation repeals section 314(e) of the Public Health Service Act under which neighborhood health centers have previously been funded and replaces it with a new community health center authority which more clearly spells out the type of centers which the Congress wishes to support under the Public Health Service Act. The committee believes that the neighborhood health center model described and required in the bill is fundamentally a good model for health care delivery and that Federal startup support continues to be necessary to assure that the comprehensive health centers are established in the many underserved areas of the country needing these services. One of the primary thrusts of the pending bill in the provisions regarding migrant health centers. community mental health centers and neighborhood health centers is the strong incentive for "selfsufficiency" so that these centers can get to a point where they can support themselves from nonFederal sources. This will allow limited Federal funds to be invested in bringing centers to additional areas still in need. In each of these programs the centers. in order to be eligible for operating assistance. must make every reasonable effort to collect for services from appropriate third party payers.