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Title 36, Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-102

§150902 Purposes

Title 36 › Subtitle II — Patriotic and National Organizations › Part B — Organizations › CHAPTER 1509 — NATIONAL COUNCIL ON RADIATION PROTECTION AND MEASUREMENTS › § 150902

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a corporation to gather, study, and share information for the public about safety from radiation and about how radiation is measured, including units and quantities. It also helps scientific groups work together and supports their work. The corporation develops basic ideas about radiation measurements, how to use them, and ways to protect people from radiation. It will work with the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the Federal Radiation Council, the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, and other national and international groups.

Full Legal Text

Title 36, §150902

Patriotic and National Observances, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of the corporation are—
(1)to collect, analyze, develop, and disseminate in the public interest information and recommendations about—
(A)protection against radiation; and
(B)radiation measurements, quantities, and units, particularly those concerned with protection against radiation;
(2)to provide a means by which organizations concerned with the scientific and related aspects of protection against radiation and of radiation quantities, units, and measurements may cooperate for effective use of their combined resources, and to stimulate the work of those organizations;
(3)to develop basic concepts about—
(A)radiation quantities, units, and measurements;
(B)the application of those concepts; and
(C)protection against radiation; and
(4)to cooperate with the International Commission on Radiological Protection, the Federal Radiation Council, the International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, and other national and international organizations, governmental and private, concerned with radiation quantities, units, and measurements and with protection against radiation.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 15090236:4503.July 14, 1964, Pub. L. 88–376, § 3, 78 Stat. 321. In this section, the word “objects” is omitted as unnecessary. The words “protection against radiation” are used throughout, and the words “(referred to herein as ‘radiation protection’)” in 36:4503(1) are omitted, for clarity and to eliminate unnecessary words.

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Citation

36 U.S.C. § 150902

Title 36, Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102