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 PUBLIC LAW 95-623—NOV. 9, 1978

92 STAT. 3453

tion of persons afflicted by such diseases, costs reasonably attributable to pain and suffering from such diseases and effects, loss of income and future earnings resulting from such diseases and effects, adverse effects on productivity (and thus increases in production costs and consumer prices) resulting from such diseases and effects, loss of tax revenues resulting from such decreases in earnings and productivity, costs to the welfare and unemployment compensation systems and the programs of health benefits under titles X VIII and XIX of the Social Security Act resulting from such diseases and effects, the overall 42 USC 1395, increases in costs throughout the economy resulting from such diseases 1396. and effects, and other related direct and indirect costs.". INFORMATION

ON

EFFECTS ON HEALTH OF THE EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

ENVIRONMENT

AND

SEC. 8. (a) Section f306 (as amended by section 5) is amended by inserting after subsection (k) the following new subsection: "(1)(1) The Secretary, acting through the Center, shall develop a plan for the collection and coordination of statistical and epidemiological data on the effects of the environment on health. Such plan shall include a review of the data now available on health effects, deficiencies in such data, and methods by which existing data deficiencies can be corrected. The Secretary shall submit such plan to the Congress not later than January 1, 1980. "(2)(A) The Secretary, acting through the Center, shall establish, not later than two years after the date of the enactment of this subsection, guidelines for the collection, compilation, analysis, publication, and distribution of statistics and information necessary for determining the effects of conditions of employment and indoor and outdoor environmental conditions on the public health. Guidelines established under this subparagraph shall not (i) authorize or require the disclosure of any matter described in section 552(b)(6) of title 5, United States Code, and (ii) authorize or require the disclosure of any statistics or other information which is exempt from disclosure piu'suant to subsection (a) of section 552 of title 5, United States Code, by reason of subsection (b)(4) of such section. The guidelines shall be reviewed and, if appropriate, revised at least every three years after the date they are initially established. Guidelines shall take effect on the date of the promulgation of the regulation establishing or revising the guidelines or such later date as may be specified in the guidelines. "(B) The guidelines shall be designed— "(i) to improve coordination of environmental and health studies, statistics, and information, and to prevent overlap and unnecessary duplication with respect to such studies, statistics, and information; " (ii) to assure that such studies, statistics, and information will be available to executive departments responsible for the administration of laws relating to the protection of the public health and safety or the environment; "(iii) to encourage the more effective use by executive departments of such studies, statistics, and information; "(iv) to improve the statistical validity and reliability of such studies, statistics, and information; and

42 USC 242k. Plan.

Submittal to Congress. Guidelines.

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