§ 2609. — Research, development, collection, dissemination, and utilization of data.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC2609]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 53--TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL
SUBCHAPTER I--CONTROL OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Sec. 2609. Research, development, collection, dissemination, and
utilization of data
(a) Authority
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 5 of title 41.
(b) Data systems
(1) 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 data
submitted to the Administrator under this chapter.
(2)(A) 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 data 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.
(B) 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 a data 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 5 of
title 41.
(c) Screening techniques
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.
(d) Monitoring
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.
(e) Basic research
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) of this section, the
bounds of the reliability of such techniques, and the opportunities for
their improvement.
(f) Training
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.
(g) Exchange of research and development results
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 data format and
analysis and consistent testing procedures.
(Pub. L. 94-469, title I, Sec. 10, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2031; Pub. L.
96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695; renumbered
title I, Pub. L. 99-519, Sec. 3(c)(1), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2989.)
Codification
In subsecs. (a) and (b)(2)(B), ``section 3324(a) and (b) of title
31'' substituted for references to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes
(31 U.S.C. 529) on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13,
1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money
and Finance.
Change of Name
``Secretary of Health and Human Services'' substituted for
``Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare'' in subsecs. (a), (b)(2),
(d), (e), and (g), and ``Department of Health and Human Services''
substituted for ``Department of Health, Education, and Welfare'' in
subsec. (c), pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88, which is
classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Availability of Grants
Grants awarded under this section are available for research,
development, monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations, and
studies, beginning in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, see provisions of
title III of Pub. L. 106-74, set out as a note under section 136r of
Title 7, Agriculture.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 2628 of this title.
