associate deputy chief medical director; additional assistant chief medical director

associate deputy chief medical director; additional assistant chief medical director Sec. 103. (a) (1) Section 4103(a) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), (5), (6), and (7) as paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), and (8), respectively, and inserting a new paragraph (3) to read as follows: “(3) The Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director, who shall be an assistant to the Chief Medical Director and the Deputy Chief Medical Director. He shall be a qualified doctor of medicine, appointed by the Administrator.” (2) Such section 4103(a) is further amended by deleting “five”, immediately preceding “Assistant Chief Medical Directors,” in the first sentence of redesignated paragraph (4), and substituting therefor, “six”. (b) Such section 4103 is further amended by amending subsection (b) thereof to read as follows: “(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section— “(1) any appointment under this section shall be for a period of four years, with reappointment permissible for successive like periods, 80 Stat. 1369 “(2) any such appointment or reappointment may be extended by the Administrator for a period not in excess of three years, and “(3) any person so appointed or reappointed shall be subject to removal by the Administrator for cause.” (c) The compensation of the Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director of the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans’ Administration shall be the same as that of an Assistant Chief Medical Director in such Department.