§4367 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

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EPA officers and employees who do work under this law and who have a known financial interest in anyone applying for or getting EPA grants, contracts, or other financial help must file written statements to disclose that interest. The EPA Administrator had 90 days after November 8, 1977 to define “known financial interest” and to create rules for how those statements are filed, checked, and enforced. The Administrator can exempt certain nonpolicy jobs. Anyone who must follow this rule and knowingly breaks it can be fined up to $2,500, jailed up to one year, or both.

Title 42, §4367

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(a)Each officer or employee of the Environmental Protection Agency who—

(1)performs any function or duty under this Act; and

(2)has any known financial interest in any person who applies for or receives grants, contracts, or other forms of financial assistance under this Act,

(b)The Administrator shall—

(1)act within ninety days after November 8, 1977—

(A)to define the term “known financial interest” for purposes of subsection (a) of this section; and

(B)to establish the methods by which the requirement to file written statements specified in subsection (a) of this section will be monitored and enforced, including appropriate provision for the filing by such officers and employees of such statements and the review by the Administrator of such statements; and

(2)Omitted.

(c)In the rules prescribed under subsection (b) of this section, the Administrator may identify specific positions of a nonpolicymaking nature within the Administration and provide that officers or employees occupying such positions shall be exempt from the requirements of this section.

(d)Any officer or employee who is subject to, and knowingly violates, this section, shall be fined not more than $2,500 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

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This Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), (2), is Pub. L. 95–155, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1257, known as the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, which to the extent classified to the Code enacted section 300j–3a, 4361a, 4361b, and 4363 to 4367 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. Codification Subsec. (b)(2) of this section, which required the Administrator to report to Congress on June 1 of each calendar year with respect to such disclosures and the actions taken in regard thereto during the preceding calendar year, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, item 9 on page 164 of House Document No. 103–7. 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.

§4367 Reporting requirements of financial interests of officers and employees of Environmental Protection Agency

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Title 42, §4367

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