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[CITE: 42USC280e-3]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
 
            Part \1\ M--National Program of Cancer Registries
 
Sec. 280e-3. Study in certain States to determine factors 
        contributing to elevated breast cancer mortality rates
        

(a) In general

    Subject to subsections (c) and (d) of this section, the Secretary, 
acting through the Director of the National Cancer Institute, shall 
conduct a study for the purpose of determining the factors contributing 
to the fact that breast cancer mortality rates in the States specified 
in subsection (b) of this section are elevated compared to rates in 
other States.

(b) Relevant States

    The States referred to in subsection (a) of this section are 
Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New 
Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and the District of Columbia.

(c) Cooperation of State

    The Secretary may conduct the study required in subsection (a) of 
this section in a State only if the State agrees to cooperate with the 
Secretary in the conduct of the study, including providing information 
from any registry operated by the State pursuant to section 280e(a) of 
this title.

(d) Planning, commencement, and duration

    The Secretary shall, during each of the fiscal years 1993 and 1994, 
develop a plan for conducting the study required in subsection (a) of 
this section. The study shall be initiated by the Secretary not later 
than fiscal year 1994, and the collection of data under the study may 
continue through fiscal year 1998.

(e) Report

    Not later than September 30, 1999, the Secretary shall complete the 
study required in subsection (a) of this section and submit to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and to 
the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, a report 
describing the findings and recommendations made as a result of the 
study.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title III, Sec. 399K, as added Pub. L. 102-515, 
Sec. 3, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3376.)

                         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.


  Potential Environmental and Other Risks Contributing to Incidence of 
                              Breast Cancer

    Pub. L. 103-43, title XIX, Sec. 1911, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 205, 
provided that:
    ``(a) Requirement of Study.--
        ``(1) In general.--The Director of the National Cancer Institute 
    (in this section referred to as the `Director'), in collaboration 
    with the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health 
    Sciences, shall conduct a case-control study to assess biological 
    markers of environmental and other potential risk factors 
    contributing to the incidence of breast cancer in--
            ``(A) the Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, in the State of 
        New York; and
            ``(B) the 2 counties in the northeastern United States that, 
        as identified in the report specified in paragraph (2), had the 
        highest age-adjusted mortality rate of such cancer that 
        reflected not less than 30 deaths during the 5-year period for 
        which findings are made in the report.
        ``(2) Relevant report.--The report referred to in paragraph 
    (1)(B) is the report of the findings made in the study entitled 
    `Survival, Epidemiology, and End Results', relating to cases of 
    cancer during the years 1983 through 1987.
    ``(b) Certain Elements of Study.--Activities of the Director in 
carrying out the study under subsection (a) shall include the use of a 
geographic system to evaluate the current and past exposure of 
individuals, including direct monitoring and cumulative estimates of 
exposure, to--
        ``(1) contaminated drinking water;
        ``(2) sources of indoor and ambient air pollution, including 
    emissions from aircraft;
        ``(3) electromagnetic fields;
        ``(4) pesticides and other toxic chemicals;
        ``(5) hazardous and municipal waste; and
        ``(6) such other factors as the Director determines to be 
    appropriate.
    ``(c) Report.--Not later than 30 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act [June 10, 1993], the Director shall complete the 
study required in subsection (a) and submit to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce [now Committee on Commerce] of the House of 
Representatives, and to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of 
the Senate, a report describing the findings made as a result of the 
study.
    ``(d) Funding.--Of the amounts appropriated for fiscal years 1994 
and 1995 for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and 
the National Cancer Institute, the Director of the National Institutes 
of Health shall make available amounts for carrying out the study 
required in subsection (a).''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 280e, 280e-4 of this title.
