42 U.S.C. § 4366: Identification and…

Summary

The EPA Administrator must work with the leaders of other federal agencies to find and coordinate environmental research, development, and demonstration work inside and outside the government so that programs, projects, and facilities are not needlessly duplicated. The Administrator must figure out what can be done now under existing law to improve coordination, suggest actions to encourage that coordination, and say what new laws might be needed. The Administrator must include a full report on these actions in each annual update of the EPA’s five-year plan and may send extra reports when useful. The Council on Environmental Quality, working with the Office of Science and Technology Policy, must carry out a joint study of how to coordinate environmental research and development. The Council’s chair must report the study results and any recommendations to the President and Congress by May 31, 1978. The President must tell Congress by September 30, 1978 what steps he took to follow those recommendations and any legislative ideas.

Title 42, §4366

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(a)Consultation and cooperation of Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency with heads of Federal agencies; inclusion of activities in annual revisions of plan for research, etc.

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.

The Administrator shall include in each annual revision of the five-year plan provided for by section 4361 of this title a full and complete report on the actions taken and determinations made during the preceding year under this subsection, and may submit interim reports on such actions and determinations at such other times as he deems appropriate.

(b)Coordination of programs by Administrator (c) Joint study by Council on Environmental Quality in consultation with Office of Science and Technology Policy for coordination of activities; report to President and Congress; report by President to Congress on implementation of joint study and report

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.

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