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[CITE: 42USC4366]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 55--NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 4366. Identification and coordination of research, 
        development, and demonstration activities
        

(a) Consultation and cooperation of Administrator of Environmental 
        Protection Agency with heads of Federal agencies; inclusion of 
        activities in annual revisions of plan for research, etc.

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in 
consultation and cooperation with the heads of other Federal agencies, 
shall take such actions on a continuing basis as may be necessary or 
appropriate--
        (1) to identify environmental research, development, and 
    demonstration activities, within and outside the Federal Government, 
    which may need to be more effectively coordinated in order to 
    minimize unnecessary duplication of programs, projects, and research 
    facilities;
        (2) to determine the steps which might be taken under existing 
    law, by him and by the heads of such other agencies, to accomplish 
    or promote such coordination, and to provide for or encourage the 
    taking of such steps; and
        (3) to determine the additional legislative actions which would 
    be needed to assure such coordination to the maximum extent 
    possible.

The Administrator shall include in each annual revision of the five-year 
plan provided for by section 4361 \1\ of this title a full and complete 
report on the actions taken and determinations made during the preceding 
year under this subsection, and may submit interim reports on such 
actions and determinations at such other times as he deems appropriate.
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(b) Coordination of programs by Administrator

    The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall 
coordinate environmental research, development, and demonstration 
programs of such Agency with the heads of other Federal agencies in 
order to minimize unnecessary duplication of programs, projects, and 
research facilities.

(c) Joint study by Council on Environmental Quality in consultation with 
        Office of Science and Technology Policy for coordination of 
        activities; report to President and Congress; report by 
        President to Congress on implementation of joint study and 
        report

    (1) In order to promote the coordination of environmental research 
and development activities, and to assure that the action taken and 
methods used (under subsection (a) of this section and otherwise) to 
bring about such coordination will be as effective as possible for that 
purpose, the Council on Environmental Quality in consultation with the 
Office of Science and Technology Policy shall promptly undertake and 
carry out a joint study of all aspects of the coordination of 
environmental research and development. The Chairman of the Council 
shall prepare a report on the results of such study, together with such 
recommendations (including legislative recommendations) as he deems 
appropriate, and shall submit such report to the President and the 
Congress not later than May 31, 1978.
    (2) Not later than September 30, 1978, the President shall report to 
the Congress on steps he has taken to implement the recommendations 
included in the report under paragraph (1), including any 
recommendations he may have for legislation.

(Pub. L. 95-155, Sec. 9, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1261.)

                       References in Text

    Section 4361 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was repealed 
by Pub. L. 104-66, title II, Sec. 2021(k)(1), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 
728.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Environmental Research, 
Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, and not as 
part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises 
this chapter.


 Coordination of Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration 
                        Efforts; Study and Report

    Pub. L. 95-477, Sec. 3(c), Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1509, authorized 
to be appropriated to the Environmental Protection Agency for the fiscal 
year 1979, $1,000,000, and for the fiscal year 1980, $1,000,000, for a 
study and report, under a contract let by the Administrator, to be 
conducted outside the Federal Government, on coordination of the Federal 
Government's efforts in environmental research, development, and 
demonstration, and the application of the results of such efforts to 
environmental problems, with the report on the study submitted to the 
President, the Administrator, and the Congress within two years after 
Oct. 18, 1978, accompanied by recommendations for action by the 
President, the Administrator, other agencies, or the Congress, as may be 
appropriate.
