36 U.S.C. § 150902 — Purposes

submitted 28 years ago by Pub. L. 105-225 to r/title-36-PATRIOTIC-AND-NATIONAL-OBSERVANCES-CEREMONIES-AND-ORGANIZATIONS · 149 words · no verdicts yet

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The corporation's job is to gather and share information and advice about radiation protection and radiation measurement. It helps groups working on radiation safety cooperate and share resources. It also develops basic scientific concepts about radiation and works with other national and international radiation organizations.

This section lists four purposes for the corporation. (1) To collect, analyze, develop, and share, in the public interest, information and recommendations about (A) protection against radiation, and (B) radiation measurements, quantities, and units, especially those tied to protection against radiation. (2) To give organizations that work on the scientific and related sides of radiation protection, and of radiation quantities, units, and measurements, a way to cooperate and combine their resources, and to encourage those organizations' work. (3) To develop basic concepts about (A) radiation quantities, units, and measurements, (B) how those concepts are applied, and (C) protection against radiation. (4) To cooperate with the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the Federal Radiation Council, the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, and other national and international organizations — government or private — that deal with radiation quantities, units, measurements, and protection against radiation.

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The purposes of the corporation are—

(1)

to collect, analyze, develop, and disseminate in the public interest information and recommendations about—

(A)

protection against radiation; and

(B)

radiation measurements, quantities, and units, particularly those concerned with protection against radiation;

(2)

to provide a means by which organizations concerned with the scientific and related aspects of protection against radiation and of radiation quantities, units, and measurements may cooperate for effective use of their combined resources, and to stimulate the work of those organizations;

(3)

to develop basic concepts about—

(A)

radiation quantities, units, and measurements;

(B)

the application of those concepts; and

(C)

protection against radiation; and

(4)

to cooperate with the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the Federal Radiation Council, the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, and other national and international organizations, governmental and private, concerned with radiation quantities, units, and measurements and with protection against radiation.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1395.)

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1998Enacted · Pub. L. 105-225 · 112 Stat. 1395

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