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 94 STAT. 328

42 USC 6952.

PUBLIC LAW 96-229—APR. 7, 1980 (2) $3,500,000 to carry out activities authorized in section 5002 of the Resource (Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-580). REPORTING

42 USC 4369a.

Report to congressional committees.

SEC. 4. (a) The Administrator shall keep the appropriate committees of the House and the Senate fully and currently informed about all aspects of the environmental research and development activities of the Environmental Protection Agency. (b) Each year, at the time of the submission of the President's annual budget request, the Administrator shall make available to the appropriate committees of Congress sufficient copies of a report fully describing funds requested and the environmental research and development activities to be carried out with these funds. REIMBURSEMENT FOR USE OF FACILITIES

42 USC 4370.

Waiver.

SEC. 5. (a) The Administrator is authorized to allow appropriate use of special Environmental Protection Agency research and test facilities by outside groups or individuals and to receive reimbursement or fees for costs incurred thereby when he finds this to be in the public interest. Such reimbursement or fees are to be used by the Agency to defray the costs of use by outside groups or individuals. (b) The Administrator may promulgate regulations to cover such use of Agency facilities in accordance with generally accepted accounting, safety, and laboratory practices. (c) When he finds it is in the public interest the Administrator may waive reimbursement or fees for outside use of Agency facilities by nonprofit private or public entities. Approved April 7, 1980. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 96-58 (Comm. on Science and Technology) and No. 96-611 (Comm. of Conference). SENATE REPORT No. 96-158 (Comm. on Environment and Public Works). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 125 (1979): Mar. 26, 27, considered and passed House. May 23, considered and passed Senate, amended. Nov. 14, Senate agreed to conference report. Nov. 29, point of order made and sustained against conference report; House receded from its disagreement and agreed to Senate amendment No. 1 with an amendment; agreed to amendments numbered 2 through 7. Vol. 126 (1980): Mar. 25, Senate sigreed to House amendment.

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