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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.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmentally Ad-
vanced Technologies Education Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Environmentally sound, long-term economic
growth can be substantially improved through the
greater availability of educational materials that
clarify the relationships between technological and
economic activities and the environment.
(2) Several State and local governments have
been on the forefront of developing educational ma-
terials regarding waste minimization and recycling,
and these activities should be made known across
the United States to allow other communities to rep-
licate successes.
(3) In addition to waste minimization and recy-
cling, educational curricula should also address the
full range of significant environmental impacts from
economic activities.
(4) Technical and vocational schools have often
been overlooked in existing environmental education
programs but have the potential for making a sig-
nificant positive contribution to the development and
use of more environmentally sound practices and
products.
SEC. 3. GENERAL EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECH-
NOLOGIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of Re-
search and Development of the Environmental Protection
Agency, in consultation and coordination with other Fed-
eral agencies (including the National Science Foundation)
and agencies of State and local governments, shall develop
and support programs and related efforts to improve un-
derstanding of the relationships between technology and
the environment, including—
(1) information on—
(A) relations between economic activity
and the environment and opportunities for im-
provement in such relations; and
(B) systems which encompass resource ex-
traction or introduction, transformation, con-
sumption, recycle and disposal, and the energy
and resources consumed and the value-yielding
results; and
(2) any other information the Director of the
Office of Research and Development of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in consultation with other
Federal agencies (including the National Science
Foundation) and agencies of State and local govern-
ments, considers appropriate.
(b) PROGRAM FUNCTIONS
AND ACTIVITIES.—The
programs and efforts referred to in subsection (a) shall
include, at a minimum—
(1) the development and widest dissemination
practicable of model curricula, educational materials,
and training programs for technical college, second-
ary, and elementary students and other interested
groups;
(2) the provision of information to local edu-
cation agencies, State education and natural re-
source agencies, and others; and
(3) the training of education professionals in
the development and delivery of the environmental
education materials developed under this Act.
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