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[CITE: 42USC8911]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
     CHAPTER 97--ACID PRECIPITATION PROGRAM AND CARBON DIOXIDE STUDY
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--CARBON DIOXIDE
 
Sec. 8911. Comprehensive study of projected impact on 
        atmospheric levels of fossil fuel combustion, etc.
        

(a) Implementing agreement between Director of Office of Science and 
        Technology and National Academy of Sciences; contents; conduct; 
        status report by President respecting negotiations of Office

    (1) The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy 
shall enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences to 
carry out a comprehensive study of the projected impact, on the level of 
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, of fossil fuel combustion, coal-
conversion and related synthetic fuels activities authorized in this 
Act, and other sources. Such study should also include an assessment of 
the economic, physical, climatic, and social effects of such impacts. In 
conducting such study the Office and the Academy are encouraged to work 
with domestic and foreign governmental and non-governmental entities, 
and international entities, so as to develop an international, worldwide 
assessment of the problems involved and to suggest such original 
research on any aspect of such problems as the Academy deems necessary.
    (2) The President shall report to the Congress within six months 
after June 30, 1980, regarding the status of the Office's negotiations 
to implement the study required under this section.

(b) Final report by Office and Academy; contents; prior clearance or 
        review of work of Academy; recommendations

    A report including the major findings and recommendations resulting 
from the study required under this section shall be submitted to the 
Congress by the Office and the Academy not later than three years after 
June 30, 1980. The Academy contribution to such report shall not be 
subject to any prior clearance or review, nor shall any prior clearance 
or conditions be imposed on the Academy as part of the agreement made by 
the Office with the Academy under this section. Such report shall in any 
event include recommendations regarding--
        (1) how a long-term program of domestic and international 
    research, monitoring, modeling, and assessment of the causes and 
    effects of varying levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide should be 
    structured, including comments by the Office on the interagency 
    requirements of such a program and comments by the Secretary of 
    State on the international agreements required to carry out such a 
    program;
        (2) how the United States can best play a role in the 
    development of such a long-term program on an international basis;
        (3) what domestic resources should be made available to such a 
    program;
        (4) how the ongoing United States Government carbon dioxide 
    assessment program should be modified so as to be of increased 
    utility in providing information and recommendations of the highest 
    possible value to government policy makers; and
        (5) the need for periodic reports to the Congress in conjunction 
    with any long-term program the Office and the Academy may recommend 
    under this section.

(c) Information from other Federal agencies and departments

    The Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Director 
of the National Science Foundation shall furnish to the Office or the 
Academy upon request any information which the Office or the Academy 
determines to be necessary for purposes of conducting the study required 
by this section.

(d) Separate assessment by Office of interagency implementation 
        requirements

    The Office shall provide a separate assessment of the interagency 
requirements to implement a comprehensive program of the type described 
in the third sentence of subsection (b) of this section.

(Pub. L. 96-294, title VII, Sec. 711, June 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 774.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 96-294, June 30, 
1980, 94 Stat. 611, as amended, known as the Energy Security Act. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 8801 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 8912 of this title.
