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[CITE: 15USC2626]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                  CHAPTER 53--TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL
 
                SUBCHAPTER I--CONTROL OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES
 
Sec. 2626. Development and evaluation of test methods


(a) In general

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the 
Administrator and acting through the Assistant Secretary for Health, may 
conduct, and make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and 
enter into contracts with public and private entities for, projects for 
the development and evaluation of inexpensive and efficient methods (1) 
for determining and evaluating the health and environmental effects of 
chemical substances and mixtures, and their toxicity, persistence, and 
other characteristics which affect health and the environment, and (2) 
which may be used for the development of test data to meet the 
requirements of rules promulgated under section 2603 of this title. The 
Administrator shall consider such methods in prescribing under section 
2603 of this title standards for the development of test data.

(b) Approval by Secretary

    No grant may be made or contract entered into under subsection (a) 
of this section unless an application therefor has been submitted to and 
approved by the Secretary. Such an application shall be submitted in 
such form and manner and contain such information as the Secretary may 
require. The Secretary may apply such conditions to grants and contracts 
under subsection (a) of this section as the Secretary determines are 
necessary to carry out the purposes of such subsection. Contracts may be 
entered into under such subsection without regard to section 3324(a) and 
(b) of title 31 and section 5 of title 41.

(Pub. L. 94-469, title I, Sec. 27, Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2049; 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; 
Pub. L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1061(a), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 719.)

                          Codification

    In subsec. (b), ``section 3324(a) and (b) and title 31'' substituted 
for reference 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.


                               Amendments

    1995--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-66 struck out heading and text of 
subsec. (c). Text read as follows:
    ``(1) The Secretary shall prepare and submit to the President and 
the Congress on or before January 1 of each year a report of the number 
of grants made and contracts entered into under this section and the 
results of such grants and contracts.
    ``(2) The Secretary shall periodically publish in the Federal 
Register reports describing the progress and results of any contract 
entered into or grant made under this section.''

                         Change of Name

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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