15 U.S.C. § 2609 — Research, development, collection, dissemination, and utilization of information
submitted 50 years ago by Pub. L. 94-469 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 572 words · no verdicts yet
The Administrator must conduct or support research and monitoring needed for this chapter. The section requires information systems, screening and monitoring research, basic research, training, and exchange of results.
(a) Authority. In consultation and cooperation with the Health and Human Services Secretary and other appropriate agencies, the Administrator* must conduct needed research, development, and monitoring, and may contract or make grants for them without the listed title 31 and title 41 requirements. (b) Information systems. (1) The Administrator must establish and oversee an interagency committee to design, establish, and coordinate an efficient EPA system for collecting, sharing with other Federal agencies, and using information submitted under this chapter. (2)(A) With the same consultation, the Administrator must create a system to retrieve toxicological and other science information useful under this chapter. It must be usable by Federal and other agencies responsible for regulating or studying chemical substances, mixtures, and their health or environmental effects. (B) The Administrator may grant or contract for that system without the listed procurement requirements. (c) The Administrator must coordinate with HHS's Assistant Secretary for Health research on quick, reliable, economical tests for carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and ecological effects. (d) With HHS, the Administrator must develop, with local, State*, and Federal agencies, reliable, economical monitoring methods and instruments usable in many conditions to detect toxic substances and mixtures. (e) With HHS, the Administrator must establish basic research on the scientific basis, reliability limits, and improvement opportunities for those tests and monitoring methods. (f) The Administrator must establish and promote programs and workshops to train or help train Federal laboratory and technical personnel in existing or new techniques. (g) With HHS and other appropriate agencies, the Administrator must establish and coordinate exchanges among Federal, State, and local authorities of research and development results about toxic substances and mixtures, including standard information formats, analysis, and consistent testing procedures.
The Administrator* shall, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and with other heads of appropriate departments and agencies, conduct such research, development, and monitoring as is necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The Administrator may enter into contracts and may make grants for research, development, and monitoring under this subsection. Contracts may be entered into under this subsection without regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 41.
The Administrator shall establish, administer, and be responsible for the continuing activities of an interagency committee which shall design, establish, and coordinate an efficient and effective system, within the Environmental Protection Agency, for the collection, dissemination to other Federal departments and agencies, and use of information submitted to the Administrator under this chapter.
The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other heads of appropriate departments and agencies design, establish, and coordinate an efficient and effective system for the retrieval of toxicological and other scientific information which could be useful to the Administrator in carrying out the purposes of this chapter. Systematized retrieval shall be developed for use by all Federal and other departments and agencies with responsibilities in the area of regulation or study of chemical substances and mixtures and their effect on health or the environment*.
The Administrator, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, may make grants and enter into contracts for the development of an information retrieval system described in subparagraph (A). Contracts may be entered into under this subparagraph without regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 41.
The Administrator shall coordinate, with the Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, research undertaken by the Administrator and directed toward the development of rapid, reliable, and economical screening techniques for carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and ecological effects of chemical substances and mixtures.
The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, establish and be responsible for research aimed at the development, in cooperation with local, State*, and Federal agencies, of monitoring techniques and instruments which may be used in the detection of toxic chemical substances and mixtures and which are reliable, economical, and capable of being implemented under a wide variety of conditions.
The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, establish research programs to develop the fundamental scientific basis of the screening and monitoring techniques described in subsections (c) and (d), the bounds of the reliability of such techniques, and the opportunities for their improvement.
The Administrator shall establish and promote programs and workshops to train or facilitate the training of Federal laboratory and technical personnel in existing or newly developed screening and monitoring techniques.
The Administrator shall, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other heads of appropriate departments and agencies, establish and coordinate a system for exchange among Federal, State, and local authorities of research and development results respecting toxic chemical substances and mixtures, including a system to facilitate and promote the development of standard information format and analysis and consistent testing procedures.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 94–469, title I, § 10, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2031; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 99–519, § 3(c)(1), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2989; amended Pub. L. 114–182, title I, § 19(i), June 22, 2016, 130 Stat. 507.)
- 1976Enacted · Pub. L. 94-469 · 90 Stat. 2031
- 1986Amended · Pub. L. 99-519 · 100 Stat. 2989
- 2016Amended · Pub. L. 114-182 · 130 Stat. 507
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