Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 57 — Environmental Pollution Study
§ 4392. Presidential study
Statutory text
The President shall immediately commence (1) a study of the nature and gravity of the hazards to human health and safety created by air, water, and other common environmental pollution, (2) a survey of the medical and other assistance available to persons affected by such pollution, especially when such pollution reaches emergency levels, and (3) a survey of the measures, other than those relating solely to abatement of the pollution, that may be taken to avoid or reduce the effects of such pollution on the health of individuals.
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.
Pub. L. 91–515 title V § 501(b) · 84 Stat. 1297
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4392
(Pub. L. 91–515, title V, § 501(b), Oct. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1310.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–515, title V, § 501(b), Oct. 30, 1970, 84 Stat. 1310.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) The President shall immediately commence (1) a study of the nature and gravity of the hazards to human health and safety created by air, water, and other common environmental pollution, (2) a survey of the medical and other assistance available to persons affected by such pollution, especially when such pollution reaches emergency levels, and (3) a survey of the measures, other than those relating solely to abatement of the pollution, that may be taken to avoid or reduce the effects of such pollution on the health of individuals.
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