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[CITE: 42USC8902]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
     CHAPTER 97--ACID PRECIPITATION PROGRAM AND CARBON DIOXIDE STUDY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--ACID PRECIPITATION
 
Sec. 8902. Comprehensive ten-year program


(a) Implementation by Acid Precipitation Task Force; membership, etc., 
        of Task Force

    There is hereby established a comprehensive ten-year program to 
carry out the provisions of this subchapter; and to implement this 
program there shall be formed an Acid Precipitation Task Force 
(hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the ``Task Force''), of 
which the Secretary of Agriculture, the Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, and the Administrator of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shall be joint chairmen. The 
remaining membership of the Task Force shall consist of--
        (1) one representative each from the Department of the Interior, 
    the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of 
    Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of State, the 
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Council on 
    Environmental Quality, the National Science Foundation, and the 
    Tennessee Valley Authority;
        (2) the director of the Argonne National Laboratory, the 
    director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the director of the 
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the director of the Pacific 
    Northwest National Laboratory; and
        (3) four additional members to be appointed by the President.

(b) Research management consortium; membership, responsibilities, etc.

    The four National Laboratories (referred to in subsection (a)(2) of 
this section) shall constitute a research management consortium having 
the responsibilities described in section 8903(b)(13) of this title as 
well as the general responsibilities required by their representation on 
the Task Force. In carrying out these responsibilities the consortium 
shall report to, and act pursuant to direction from, the joint chairmen 
of the Task Force.

(c) Director of research program

    The Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration shall serve as the director of the research program 
established by this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 96-294, title VII, Sec. 703, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 771.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8905 of this title.
