15 U.S.C. § 2609 : US Code - Section 2609: Research, development, collection, dissemination, and utilization of data

Search 15 U.S.C. § 2609 : US Code - Section 2609: Research, development, collection, dissemination, and utilization of data

(a) Authority
The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services and with other heads of
appropriate departments and agencies, conduct such research,
development, and monitoring as is necessary to carry out the
purposes of this chapter. The Administrator may enter into
contracts and may make grants for research, development, and
monitoring under this subsection. Contracts may be entered into
under this subsection without regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of
title 31 and section 5 of title 41.
(b) Data systems
(1) The Administrator shall establish, administer, and be
responsible for the continuing activities of an interagency
committee which shall design, establish, and coordinate an
efficient and effective system, within the Environmental Protection
Agency, for the collection, dissemination to other Federal
departments and agencies, and use of data submitted to the
Administrator under this chapter.
(2)(A) The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation
with the Secretary of Health and Human Services and other heads of
appropriate departments and agencies design, establish, and
coordinate an efficient and effective system for the retrieval of
toxicological and other scientific data which could be useful to
the Administrator in carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
Systematized retrieval shall be developed for use by all Federal
and other departments and agencies with responsibilities in the
area of regulation or study of chemical substances and mixtures and
their effect on health or the environment.
(B) The Administrator, in consultation and cooperation with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, may make grants and enter
into contracts for the development of a data retrieval system
described in subparagraph (A). Contracts may be entered into under
this subparagraph without regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of
title 31 and section 5 of title 41.
(c) Screening techniques
The Administrator shall coordinate, with the Assistant Secretary
for Health of the Department of Health and Human Services, research
undertaken by the Administrator and directed toward the development
of rapid, reliable, and economical screening techniques for
carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, and ecological effects of
chemical substances and mixtures.
(d) Monitoring
The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, establish and be
responsible for research aimed at the development, in cooperation
with local, State, and Federal agencies, of monitoring techniques
and instruments which may be used in the detection of toxic
chemical substances and mixtures and which are reliable,
economical, and capable of being implemented under a wide variety
of conditions.
(e) Basic research
The Administrator shall, in consultation and cooperation with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, establish research programs
to develop the fundamental scientific basis of the screening and
monitoring techniques described in subsections (c) and (d) of this
section, the bounds of the reliability of such techniques, and the
opportunities for their improvement.
(f) Training
The Administrator shall establish and promote programs and
workshops to train or facilitate the training of Federal laboratory
and technical personnel in existing or newly developed screening
and monitoring techniques.
(g) Exchange of research and development results
The Administrator shall, in consultation with the Secretary of
Health and Human Services and other heads of appropriate
departments and agencies, establish and coordinate a system for
exchange among Federal, State, and local authorities of research
and development results respecting toxic chemical substances and
mixtures, including a system to facilitate and promote the
development of standard data format and analysis and consistent
testing procedures.