15 U.S.C. § 2609
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 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.
15 U.S.C. § 2609
EDITORIAL NOTES
AMENDMENTS2016- Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(2), substituted "Health and Human Services" for "Health, Education, and Welfare" wherever appearing. Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(1), substituted "information" for "data" in section catchline. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(3)(A), substituted "Information" for "Data" in heading.Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(3)(B), substituted "information" for "data".Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(3)(C), substituted "information" for "data". Subsec. (b)(2)(B). Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(3)(D), substituted "an information" for "a data".Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 114-182, §19(i)(4), substituted "information" for "data".
CODIFICATIONIn subsec. (a), "section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 41" substituted for "sections 3648 and 3709 of the Revised Statutes ( 31 U.S.C. 529, 14 U.S.C. 5)" on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, §4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, which Act enacted Title 31, Money and Finance, and Pub. L. 111-350, §6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. In subsec. (b)(2)(B), "section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 41" substituted for "sections 3648 and 3709 of the Revised Statutes ( 31 U.S.C. 529, 41 U.S.C. 5)" on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, §4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, which Act enacted Title 31, Money and Finance, and Pub. L. 111-350, §6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.
STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES
EFFECTIVE DATE Section effective Jan. 1, 1977, see section 31 of Pub. L. 94-469 set out as a note under section 2601 of this title.
AVAILABILITY OF GRANTSGrants 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.
- State
- The term "State" means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Canal Zone, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, or any other territory or possession of the United States.
- environment
- The term "environment" includes water, air, and land and the interrelationship which exists among and between water, air, and land and all living things.
- Administrator
- the terms "Administration" and "Administrator" mean the Small Business Administration and the Administrator thereof, respectively; and