§8902 Comprehensive Ten-year Program

Summary

Creates a ten-year program and an Acid Precipitation Task Force to carry it out. The Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must be joint chairmen. Other members include one representative each from several federal agencies (Interior; Health and Human Services; Commerce; Energy; State; NASA; the Council on Environmental Quality; the National Science Foundation), the Tennessee Valley Authority, the directors of four national labs (Argonne, Brookhaven, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest), and four people the President appoints. The four lab directors form a research management consortium with the duties named in section 8903(b)(13) and other Task Force duties. That consortium must report to and follow the joint chairmen. The NOAA Administrator is the director of the research program.