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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 3568

To support and develop environmentally advanced technologies education

curricula.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NOVEMBER 19, 1993

Mr. MINGE introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the

Committees on Education and Labor and Science, Space, and Technology

A BILL

To support and develop environmentally advanced

technologies education curricula.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmentally Ad5 vanced Technologies Education Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

7 The Congress finds the following:

8 (1) Environmentally sound, long-term economic

9 growth can be substantially improved through the

10 greater availability of educational materials that
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1 clarify the relationships between technological and

2 economic activities and the environment.

3 (2) Several State and local governments have

4 been on the forefront of developing educational ma5 terials regarding waste minimization and recycling,

6 and these activities should be made known across

7 the United States to allow other communities to rep8 licate successes.

9 (3) In addition to waste minimization and recy10 cling, educational curricula should also address the

11 full range of significant environmental impacts from

12 economic activities.

13 (4) Technical and vocational schools have often

14 been overlooked in existing environmental education

15 programs but have the potential for making a sig16 nificant positive contribution to the development and

17 use of more environmentally sound practices and

18 products.

19 SEC. 3. GENERAL EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECH20 NOLOGIES.

21 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of Re22 search and Development of the Environmental Protection

23 Agency, in consultation and coordination with other Fed24 eral agencies (including the National Science Foundation)

25 and agencies of State and local governments, shall develop
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1 and support programs and related efforts to improve un2 derstanding of the relationships between technology and

3 the environment, including—

4 (1) information on—

5 (A) relations between economic activity

6 and the environment and opportunities for im7 provement in such relations; and

8 (B) systems which encompass resource ex9 traction or introduction, transformation, con10 sumption, recycle and disposal, and the energy

11 and resources consumed and the value-yielding

12 results; and

13 (2) any other information the Director of the

14 Office of Research and Development of the Environ15 mental Protection Agency, in consultation with other

16 Federal agencies (including the National Science

17 Foundation) and agencies of State and local govern18 ments, considers appropriate.

19 (b) PROGRAM FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES.—The

20 programs and efforts referred to in subsection (a) shall

21 include, at a minimum—

22 (1) the development and widest dissemination

23 practicable of model curricula, educational materials,

24 and training programs for technical college, second-
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1 ary, and elementary students and other interested

2 groups;

3 (2) the provision of information to local edu4 cation agencies, State education and natural re5 source agencies, and others; and

6 (3) the training of education professionals in

7 the development and delivery of the environmental

8 education materials developed under this Act.

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