§2695 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

The Administrator, with the Secretary of Education, can give grants to States to help schools with environmental health. Grants can pay for technical help using EPA tools like Tools for Schools and the Healthy School Environmental Assessment Tool. Grants can also fund State programs that set school building design and renovation standards, find problems like contaminants or pollutant emissions, recommend fixes, and check children’s exposure. The authority to do this ends five years after December 19, 2007 (December 19, 2012).

Title 15, §2695

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(a)The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, may provide grants to States for use in—

(1)providing technical assistance for programs of the Environmental Protection Agency (including the Tools for Schools Program and the Healthy School Environmental Assessment Tool) to schools for use in addressing environmental issues; and

(2)development and implementation of State school environmental health programs that include—

(A)standards for school building design, construction, and renovation; and

(B)identification of ongoing school building environmental problems, including contaminants, hazardous substances, and pollutant emissions, in the State and recommended solutions to address those problems, including assessment of information on the exposure of children to environmental hazards in school facilities.

(b)The authority of the Administrator to carry out this section shall expire 5 years after December 19, 2007.

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Effective Date

Subchapter effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.

§2695 Grants for Healthy School Environments

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Title 15, §2695

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