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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy

§ 4369. Miscellaneous reports

Statutory text

(a)

Availability to Congressional committees

All reports to or by the Administrator relevant to the Agency’s program of research, development, and demonstration shall promptly be made available to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate, unless otherwise prohibited by law.

(b)

Transmittal of jurisdictional information

The Administrator shall keep the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate fully and currently informed with respect to matters falling within or related to the jurisdiction of the committees.

(c)

Comment by Government agencies and the public

The reports provided for in section 5910 1 of this title shall be made available to the public for comment, and to the heads of affected agencies for comment and, in the case of recommendations for action, for response.

(d)

Transmittal of research information to the Department of Energy

For the purpose of assisting the Department of Energy in planning and assigning priorities in research development and demonstration activities related to environmental control technologies, the Administrator shall actively make available to the Department all information on research activities and results of research programs of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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.

  1. Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1979

    Pub. L. 95–477 § 5 · 92 Stat. 1507

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4369

    Pub. L. 95–477, § 5, Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1510

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 95–477, § 5, Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1510

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. miscellaneous reports (a) All reports to or by the Administrator relevant to the Agency–s program of research, development, and demonstration shall promptly be made available to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate, unless otherwise prohibited by law. (b) The Administrator shall keep the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate fully and currently informed with respect to matters falling within or related to the jurisdiction of the committees. (c) The reports provided for in section 11 of Public Law 93–577 shall be made available to the public for comment, and to the heads of affected agencies for comment and, in the case of recommendations for action, for response. (d) For the purpose of assisting the Department of Energy in planning and assigning priorities in research development and demonstration activities related to environmental control technologies, the. Administrator shall actively make available to the Department all information on research activities and results of research programs of the Environmental Protection Agency.

  2. Pub. L. 103–437 § 15(c)(6) · 108 Stat. 4581

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 4369(a); 42 U.S.C. § 4369(b)

    Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Science, Space, and Technology” for “Science and Technology”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Science, Space, and Technology” for “Science and Technology”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (6) section 5(a) and (b) of the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1979 (42 U.S.C. 4369(a), (b)).

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 5910 of this title, referred to in subsec. (c), was repealed by Pub. L. 104–66, title II, § 2021(i), , 109 Stat. 727.

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1979, and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1994—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Science, Space, and Technology” for “Science and Technology”.

Credits

1978–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1978Pub. L. 95–477, § 5, , 92 Stat. 1510
  2. 1994Pub. L. 103–437, § 15(c)(6), , 108 Stat. 4592.
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(Pub. L. 95–477, § 5, , 92 Stat. 1510; Pub. L. 103–437, § 15(c)(6), , 108 Stat. 4592.)

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