Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security
§ 17255. Safety research
Statutory text
Program
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall conduct a research program to address public health, safety, and environmental impacts that may be associated with capture, injection, and sequestration of greenhouse gases in geologic reservoirs.
Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated for carrying out this section $5,000,000 for each fiscal year.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Sequestration Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 2007
Pub. L. 110–140 title VII § 707 · 121 Stat. 1492
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 17255
(Pub. L. 110–140, title VII, § 707, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1710.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–140, title VII, § 707, Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1710.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 707. SAFETY RESEARCH. (a) Program.— The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall conduct a research program to address public health, safety, and environmental impacts that may be associated with capture, injection, and sequestration of greenhouse gases in geologic reservoirs. (b) Authorization of Appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated for carrying out this section $5,000,000 for each fiscal year.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the date that is 1 day after , see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.