§300j–27 Registry for Lead Exposure and Advisory Committee

Summary

The Secretary of Health and Human Services must set up a voluntary lead exposure registry to collect data on people who live in a city that has lead contamination in its drinking water. City: a city exposed to lead in its local drinking water. Committee: the Advisory Committee the Secretary creates. Secretary: the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The registry can be run by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or it can be created through a grant or contract. The Secretary must also create an Advisory Committee inside the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, working with the CDC and other agencies. The Committee can have up to 15 members, at least half must be federal employees, and must include experts such as an epidemiologist, toxicologist, mental health professional, pediatrician, early childhood education expert, special education expert, dietician, and environmental health expert. A federal member will be chair. Members serve up to 3 years and can be reappointed. The Committee follows the Federal Advisory Committee Act. It must review federal programs and services, research needs, screening and prevention best practices, and effective health, education, and nutrition services, and do other work the Secretary asks. It must send annual reports for 5 years (and afterward as needed or if Congress requires) to the Secretary and to the Senate Committees on Finance; Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and to the House Committees on Education and the Workforce; Energy and Commerce; and Agriculture. The law authorizes $17,500,000 for the registry and $2,500,000 for the Committee for fiscal years 2017 through 2021.