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[CITE: 15USC2609]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                  CHAPTER 53--TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL
 
                SUBCHAPTER I--CONTROL OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES
 
Sec. 2609. Research, development, collection, dissemination, and 
        utilization of data
        

(a) Authority

    The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services and with other heads of 
appropriate departments and agencies, conduct such research, 
development, and monitoring as is necessary to carry out the purposes of 
this chapter. The Administrator may enter into contracts and may make 
grants for research, development, and monitoring under this subsection. 
Contracts may be entered into under this subsection without regard to 
section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 5 of title 41.

(b) Data systems

    (1) The Administrator shall establish, administer, and be 
responsible for the continuing activities of an interagency committee 
which shall design, establish, and coordinate an efficient and effective 
system, within the Environmental Protection Agency, for the collection, 
dissemination to other Federal departments and agencies, and use of data 
submitted to the Administrator under this chapter.
    (2)(A) The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with 
the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other heads of 
appropriate departments and agencies design, establish, and coordinate 
an efficient and effective system for the retrieval of toxicological and 
other scientific data which could be useful to the Administrator in 
carrying out the purposes of this chapter. Systematized retrieval shall 
be developed for use by all Federal and other departments and agencies 
with responsibilities in the area of regulation or study of chemical 
substances and mixtures and their effect on health or the environment.
    (B) The Administrator, in consultation and cooperation with the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, may make grants and enter into 
contracts for the development of a data retrieval system described in 
subparagraph (A). Contracts may be entered into under this subparagraph 
without regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 5 of 
title 41.

(c) Screening techniques

    The Administrator shall coordinate, with the Assistant Secretary for 
Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, research 
undertaken by the Administrator and directed toward the development of 
rapid, reliable, and economical screening techniques for carcinogenic, 
mutagenic, teratogenic, and ecological effects of chemical substances 
and mixtures.

(d) Monitoring

    The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, establish and be responsible for 
research aimed at the development, in cooperation with local, State, and 
Federal agencies, of monitoring techniques and instruments which may be 
used in the detection of toxic chemical substances and mixtures and 
which are reliable, economical, and capable of being implemented under a 
wide variety of conditions.

(e) Basic research

    The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, establish research programs to 
develop the fundamental scientific basis of the screening and monitoring 
techniques described in subsections (c) and (d) of this section, the 
bounds of the reliability of such techniques, and the opportunities for 
their improvement.

(f) Training

    The Administrator shall establish and promote programs and workshops 
to train or facilitate the training of Federal laboratory and technical 
personnel in existing or newly developed screening and monitoring 
techniques.

(g) Exchange of research and development results

    The Administrator shall, in consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and other heads of appropriate departments and 
agencies, establish and coordinate a system for exchange among Federal, 
State, and local authorities of research and development results 
respecting toxic chemical substances and mixtures, including a system to 
facilitate and promote the development of standard data format and 
analysis and consistent testing procedures.

(Pub. L. 94-469, title I, Sec. 10, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2031; Pub. L. 
96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695; renumbered 
title I, Pub. L. 99-519, Sec. 3(c)(1), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2989.)

                          Codification

    In subsecs. (a) and (b)(2)(B), ``section 3324(a) and (b) of title 
31'' substituted for references to section 3648 of the Revised Statutes 
(31 U.S.C. 529) on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 
1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money 
and Finance.

                         Change of Name

    ``Secretary of Health and Human Services'' substituted for 
``Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare'' in subsecs. (a), (b)(2), 
(d), (e), and (g), and ``Department of Health and Human Services'' 
substituted for ``Department of Health, Education, and Welfare'' in 
subsec. (c), pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-88, which is 
classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.


                         Availability of Grants

    Grants awarded under this section are available for research, 
development, monitoring, public education, training, demonstrations, and 
studies, beginning in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, see provisions of 
title III of Pub. L. 106-74, set out as a note under section 136r of 
Title 7, Agriculture.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2628 of this title.
