§4366 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The EPA Administrator must work with other federal agency leaders, on an ongoing basis, to find environmental research, development, and demonstration work—inside and outside the government—that should be coordinated so programs, projects, and research facilities are not needlessly duplicated. The Administrator must figure out what can be done now under current law, encourage those steps, and identify any new laws that would be needed. The EPA must also coordinate its own programs with other agencies to avoid overlap. The Council on Environmental Quality, with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, must quickly study how to improve coordination of environmental research and development. The Council Chair must send a report with recommendations to the President and Congress by May 31, 1978. The President must report to Congress by September 30, 1978 on what actions he took and any proposed legislation.

Title 42, §4366

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(a)The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation and cooperation with the heads of other Federal agencies, shall take such actions on a continuing basis as may be necessary or appropriate—

(1)to identify environmental research, development, and demonstration activities, within and outside the Federal Government, which may need to be more effectively coordinated in order to minimize unnecessary duplication of programs, projects, and research facilities;

(2)to determine the steps which might be taken under existing law, by him and by the heads of such other agencies, to accomplish or promote such coordination, and to provide for or encourage the taking of such steps; and

(3)to determine the additional legislative actions which would be needed to assure such coordination to the maximum extent possible.

(b)The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall coordinate environmental research, development, and demonstration programs of such Agency with the heads of other Federal agencies in order to minimize unnecessary duplication of programs, projects, and research facilities.

(c)(1)In order to promote the coordination of environmental research and development activities, and to assure that the action taken and methods used (under subsection (a) and otherwise) to bring about such coordination will be as effective as possible for that purpose, the Council on Environmental Quality in consultation with the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall promptly undertake and carry out a joint study of all aspects of the coordination of environmental research and development. The Chairman of the Council shall prepare a report on the results of such study, together with such recommendations (including legislative recommendations) as he deems appropriate, and shall submit such report to the President and the Congress not later than May 31, 1978.

(2)Not later than September 30, 1978, the President shall report to the Congress on steps he has taken to implement the recommendations included in the report under paragraph (1), including any recommendations he may have for legislation.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 4361 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was repealed by Pub. L. 104–66, title II, § 2021(k)(1), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 728. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Coordination of Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Efforts; Study and Report Pub. L. 95–477, § 3(c), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1509, authorized to be appropriated to the Environmental Protection Agency for the fiscal year 1979, $1,000,000, and for the fiscal year 1980, $1,000,000, for a study and report, under a contract let by the Administrator, to be conducted outside the Federal Government, on coordination of the Federal Government’s efforts in environmental research, development, and demonstration, and the application of the results of such efforts to environmental problems, with the report on the study submitted to the President, the Administrator, and the Congress within two years after Oct. 18, 1978, accompanied by recommendations for action by the President, the Administrator, other agencies, or the Congress, as may be appropriate.

§4366 Identification and coordination of research, development, and demonstration activities