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[CITE: 42USC285l-1]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
   Part C--Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes
 
     subpart 12--national institute of environmental health sciences
 
Sec. 285l-1. Applied Toxicological Research and Testing Program

    (a) There is established within the Institute a program for 
conducting applied research and testing regarding toxicology, which 
program shall be known as the Applied Toxicological Research and Testing 
Program.
    (b) In carrying out the program established under subsection (a) of 
this section, the Director of the Institute shall, with respect to 
toxicology, carry out activities--
        (1) to expand knowledge of the health effects of environmental 
    agents;
        (2) to broaden the spectrum of toxicology information that is 
    obtained on selected chemicals;
        (3) to develop and validate assays and protocols, including 
    alternative methods that can reduce or eliminate the use of animals 
    in acute or chronic safety testing;
        (4) to establish criteria for the validation and regulatory 
    acceptance of alternative testing and to recommend a process through 
    which scientifically validated alternative methods can be accepted 
    for regulatory use;
        (5) to communicate the results of research to government 
    agencies, to medical, scientific, and regulatory communities, and to 
    the public; and
        (6) to integrate related activities of the Department of Health 
    and Human Services.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 463A, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title XIII, Sec. 1301(a), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 169.)
