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[CITE: 36USC150902]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
 CHAPTER 1509--NATIONAL COUNCIL ON RADIATION PROTECTION AND MEASUREMENTS
 
Sec. 150902. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are--
        (1) to collect, analyze, develop, and disseminate in the public 
    interest information and recommendations about--
            (A) protection against radiation; and
            (B) radiation measurements, quantities, and units, 
        particularly those concerned with protection against radiation;

        (2) to provide a means by which organizations concerned with the 
    scientific and related aspects of protection against radiation and 
    of radiation quantities, units, and measurements may cooperate for 
    effective use of their combined resources, and to stimulate the work 
    of those organizations;
        (3) to develop basic concepts about--
            (A) radiation quantities, units, and measurements;
            (B) the application of those concepts; and
            (C) protection against radiation; and

        (4) to cooperate with the International Commission on 
    Radiological Protection, the Federal Radiation Council, the 
    International Commission on Radiological Units and Measurements, and 
    other national and international organizations, governmental and 
    private, concerned with radiation quantities, units, and 
    measurements and with protection against radiation.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1395.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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150902................................  36:4503.                         July 1
4, 1964, Pub. L. 88-376, Sec.  3,
                                                                          78 St
at. 321.
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    In this section, the word ``objects'' is omitted as unnecessary. The 
words ``protection against radiation'' are used throughout, and the 
words ``(referred to herein as `radiation protection')'' in 36:4503(1) 
are omitted, for clarity and to eliminate unnecessary words.
