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[CITE: 42USC4362]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 55--NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 4362. Interagency cooperation on prevention of 
        environmental cancer and heart and lung disease
        
    (a) Not later than three months after August 7, 1977, there shall be 
established a Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung 
Disease (hereinafter referred to as the ``Task Force''). The Task Force 
shall include representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
the National Cancer Institute, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood 
Institute, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, and 
the National Institute on Environmental Health Sciences, and shall be 
chaired by the Administrator (or his delegate).
    (b) The Task Force shall--
        (1) recommend a comprehensive research program to determine and 
    quantify the relationship between environmental pollution and human 
    cancer and heart and lung disease;
        (2) recommend comprehensive strategies to reduce or eliminate 
    the risks of cancer or such other diseases associated with 
    environmental pollution;
        (3) recommend research and such other measures as may be 
    appropriate to prevent or reduce the incidence of environmentally 
    related cancer and heart and lung diseases;
        (4) coordinate research by, and stimulate cooperation between, 
    the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and 
    Human Services, and such other agencies as may be appropriate to 
    prevent environmentally related cancer and heart and lung diseases; 
    and
        (5) report to Congress, not later than one year after August 7, 
    1977, and annually thereafter, on the problems and progress in 
    carrying out this section.

(Pub. L. 95-95, title IV, Sec. 402, Aug. 7, 1977, 91 Stat. 791; Pub. L. 
96-88, title V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977, 
and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which 
comprises this chapter.

                         Change of Name

    ``Department of Health and Human Services'' substituted for 
``Department of Health, Education, and Welfare'' in subsec. (b)(4) 
pursuant to section 507(b) of Pub. L. 96-88, which is classified to 
section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Aug. 7, 1977, except as otherwise expressly 
provided, see section 406(d) of Pub. L. 95-95, set out as an Effective 
Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 7401 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4362a of this title.
