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[CITE: 42USC247b-3]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
                    Part B--Federal-State Cooperation
 
Sec. 247b-3. Education, technology assessment, and epidemiology 
        regarding lead poisoning
        

(a) Prevention

                        (1) Public education

        The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
    Disease Control and Prevention, shall carry out a program to educate 
    health professionals and paraprofessionals and the general public on 
    the prevention of lead poisoning in infants and children. In 
    carrying out the program, the Secretary shall make available 
    information concerning the health effects of low-level lead 
    toxicity, the causes of lead poisoning, and the primary and 
    secondary preventive measures that may be taken to prevent such 
    poisoning.

                     (2) Interagency Task Force

        (A) Not later than 6 months after October 27, 1992, the 
    Secretary shall establish a council to be known as the Interagency 
    Task Force on the Prevention of Lead Poisoning (in this paragraph 
    referred to as the ``Task Force''). The Task Force shall coordinate 
    the efforts of Federal agencies to prevent lead poisoning.
        (B) The Task Force shall be composed of--
            (i) the Secretary, who shall serve as the chair of the Task 
        Force;
            (ii) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
            (iii) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
        Agency; and
            (iv) senior staff of each of the officials specified in 
        clauses (i) through (iii), as selected by the officials 
        respectively.

        (C) The Task Force shall--
            (i) review, evaluate, and coordinate current strategies and 
        plans formulated by the officials serving as members of the Task 
        Force, including--
                (I) the plan of the Secretary of Health and Human 
            Services entitled ``Strategic Plan for the Elimination of 
            Lead Poisoning'', dated February 21, 1991;
                (II) the plan of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
            Development entitled ``Comprehensive and Workable Plan for 
            the Abatement of Lead-Based Paint in Privately Owned 
            Housing'', dated December 7, 1990; and
                (III) the strategy of the Administrator of the 
            Environmental Protection Agency entitled ``Strategy for 
            Reducing Lead Exposures'', dated February 21, 1991;

            (ii) develop a unified implementation plan for programs that 
        receive Federal financial assistance for activities related to 
        the prevention of lead poisoning;
            (iii) establish a mechanism for sharing and disseminating 
        information among the agencies represented on the Task Force;
            (iv) identify the most promising areas of research and 
        education concerning lead poisoning;
            (v) identify the practical and technological constraints to 
        expanding lead poisoning prevention;
            (vi) annually carry out a comprehensive review of Federal 
        programs providing assistance to prevent lead poisoning, and not 
        later than May 1 of each year, submit to the Committee on Labor 
        and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on the 
        Environment and Public Works of the Senate, and to the Committee 
        on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, a report 
        that summarizes the findings made as a result of such review and 
        that contains the recommendations of the Task Force on the 
        programs and policies with respect to which the Task Force is 
        established, including related budgetary recommendations; and
            (vii) annually review and coordinate departmental and agency 
        budgetary requests with respect to all lead poisoning prevention 
        activities of the Federal Government.

(b) Technology assessment and epidemiology

    The Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, shall, directly or through grants or 
contracts--
        (1) provide for the development of improved, more cost-effective 
    testing measures for detecting lead toxicity in children;
        (2) provide for the development of improved methods of assessing 
    the prevalence of lead poisoning, including such methods as may be 
    necessary to conduct individual assessments for each State;
        (3) provide for the collection of data on the incidence and 
    prevalence of lead poisoning of infants and children, on the 
    demographic characteristics of infants and children with such 
    poisoning (including racial and ethnic status), and on the source of 
    payment for treatment for such poisoning (including the extent to 
    which insurance has paid for such treatment); and
        (4) provide for any applied research necessary to improve the 
    effectiveness of programs for the prevention of lead poisoning in 
    infants and children.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 317B, as added Pub. L. 102-531, 
title III, Sec. 303(b), Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3488; amended Pub. L. 
103-43, title XX, Sec. 2008(i)(1)(B)(i), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 212.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Pub. L. 103-43 made technical amendment to directory language 
of Pub. L. 103-531, Sec. 303(b), which enacted this section.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
