(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be
appropriated to the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency (hereafter in this Act re-
ferred to as the ‘‘Administrator’’) $536,000,000 for
fiscal year 1994 for environmental research, develop-
ment, and demonstration activities and for program
management and support of the Office of Research
and Development.
(2) EFFECT
ON
OTHER
AUTHORIZATION.—
Nothing in this Act shall affect amounts authorized
for fiscal year 1994 for Superfund research activities
as authorized by the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–499;
100 Stat. 1613).
(b) LIMITATION ON CLOSING OFFICES AND REDUC-
TIONS-IN-FORCE.—No funds appropriated pursuant to
this Act shall be used by the Administrator to close any
field station, regional office, laboratory, or other research
center, or for any reduction-in-force, and no such closing
or reduction shall be finalized, unless at least thirty days
prior to the issuing of any general notice of such closing
or reduction the Administrator informs the appropriate
legislative and appropriations committees of the House of
Representatives and the Senate in writing of the reasons
for such closing or reduction, the impact of such closing
or reduction on carrying out the provisions of this Act,
the details of such reduction or closing, and other perti-
nent information.
(c) AVAILABILITY.—Appropriations made pursuant
to this Act shall remain available for obligation or expendi-
ture for such periods as may be specified in the Acts mak-
ing such appropriations.
SEC. 3. FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—In addition to providing re-
search support for the regulatory needs of the program
offices, the Administrator shall establish separately identi-
fied research programs consisting of fundamental ecologi-
cal, health, and risk reduction research. Such research
shall be undertaken for the purpose of generating fun-
damental knowledge necessary to support efforts to iden-
tify, assess, and mitigate serious environmental risks.
(b) AUTHORITY.—In carrying out programs under
this section, the Administrator may support research on
environmental processes and trends, identification and as-
sessment of potential risks to human health and the envi-
ronment, and approaches to prevent and reduce such
risks. The Administrator is authorized to establish and
maintain resources, expertise, and facilities necessary to
the advancement of the fundamental research programs
established in this section.
(c) SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD.—The Science Advi-
sory Board established under the Environmental Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Authorization
Act of 1978 (hereafter in this Act referred to as the
‘‘Science Advisory Board’’), or a designated subcommittee
thereof, shall—
(1) review the activities undertaken under the
programs established under subsection (a);
(2) make recommendations on the appropriate
balance between the fundamental research and the
programmatic research undertaken by the Environ-
mental Protection Agency and update such rec-
ommendations at least every two years;
(3) make any recommendations with respect to
the programs established under subsection (a) that
the Science Advisory Board considers to be appro-
priate; and
(4) every two years beginning in March 1994,
submit to the Administrator and to the Congress a
report containing the results of a review undertaken
pursuant to paragraph (1) and the recommendations
(with any updates thereto) made pursuant to para-
graphs (2) and (3).
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 2 of the
Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstra-
tion Authorization Act of 1981 is amended by striking
subsection (f).
SEC. 4. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
PROGRAM.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator shall es-
tablish an Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Program to conduct comprehensive, long-term environ-
mental monitoring, data collection, and data analysis as
a means of assessing and responding to the current and
long-term status and trends of the ecological resources of
the United States.
(b) COORDINATION.—The Administrator shall coordi-
nate the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Pro-
gram activities with the heads of other Federal agencies
in order to identify, integrate, and fully utilize results of
related efforts undertaken by other agencies and minimize
duplication of efforts.
(c) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Administrator shall pub-
lish an annual report identifying and assessing the per-
formance of the activities undertaken under the Environ-
mental Monitoring and Assessment Program, the effec-
tiveness of interagency coordination, and the contributions
of multiagency research to the advancement of research
goals.
(d) PUBLIC DATA.—The Administrator shall periodi-
cally submit to Congress and make publicly available a
compilation of any statistical data summaries and inter-
pretive reports on ecological status and trends developed
as a result of the Environmental Monitoring and Assess-
ment Program.
SEC. 5. MODERNIZATION PROGRAM.
(a) MODERNIZATION PROGRAM.—The Administrator
shall establish a modernization program designed to iden-
tify, acquire, and maintain modern buildings, facilities,
supplies and equipment needed to conduct high quality re-
search. In carrying out this section, the Administrator
shall ensure that such buildings, facilities, supplies, and
equipment shall at a minimum meet the standards gen-
erally accepted by the scientific community as appropriate
for conducting research, including research instrumenta-
tion replacement standards.
(b) STUDIES.—The Administrator shall conduct
studies—
(1) to evaluate and determine the adequacy of
current buildings, facilities, supplies, and equipment
and identify future building, facility, supplies, equip-
ment and research instrumentation needs; and
(2) to identify and assess future research per-
sonnel needs and make recommendations for attract-
ing and retaining qualified scientists, engineers and
other personnel to meet such needs.
(c) DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION.—The studies re-
quired by this section shall be submitted to the Committee
on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Environment and Pub-
lic Works of the Senate within one year after the date
of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 6. REPEAL OF 5-YEAR RESEARCH REPORT REQUIRE-
MENT.
(a) REPEAL.—Section 5 of the Environmental Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Authorization
Act of 1976 is repealed.
(b) AMENDMENTS
TO
THE ENVIRONMENTAL RE-
SEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMONSTRATION AUTHOR-
IZATION ACT OF 1978.—The Environmental Research,
Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of
1978 is amended as follows:
(1) Strike section 4.
(2) Strike ‘‘including those defined in the five-
year research plan’’ at the end of section 7(a).
(3) Strike section 8(c).
(4) Strike ‘‘The Administrator shall include’’
and all that follows through the end of the sub-
section in section 9(a).
SEC. 7. SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD.
(a) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Science Advisory Board
shall submit to Congress and to the Administrator an an-
nual report that contains the views of the Science Advisory
Board on proposed research programs as described in the
President’s budget request for research, development, and
demonstration activities at the Environmental Protection
Agency. Such report shall be submitted to Congress as
soon as practicable after the submission of the President’s
budget to Congress. The Administrator shall cooperate
with the Director of the Science Advisory Board, particu-
larly with respect to the timely provision of budget infor-
mation to the Science Advisory Board, to allow the Science
Advisory Board to carry out its duties under this sub-
section.
(b) EVALUATION.—The Science Advisory Board shall
conduct periodic evaluations of selected areas of the cur-
rent and planned research, development, and demonstra-
tion activities of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The areas of evaluation shall be selected by the Science
Advisory Board in consultation with the Administrator,
the Office of Research and Development, other Agency
programs, the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech-
nology of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Environment and Public Works of the Senate. Reports
containing the Science Advisory Board’s evaluations and
recommendations shall be filed with such committees and
the Administrator. The Administrator shall provide to
such committees a written response to the Science Advi-
sory Board’s evaluation and recommendations within sixty
days after the Science Advisory Board’s report has been
submitted.
(c) CONCURRENT SUBMISSION TO CONGRESS.—Any
report required by law to be submitted by the Science Ad-
visory Board to the Administrator shall be concurrently
submitted to the Committee on Science, Space, and Tech-
nology of the House of Representatives and the Committee
on Environment and Public Works in the Senate.
SEC. 8. MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORIZATION FOR COOPERA-
TIVE AGREEMENTS.
In reviewing research, development and demonstra-
tion grant, contract, and cooperative agreement applica-
tions, the Administrator may enter into cooperative agree-
ments to conduct appropriate scientific and professional
reviews of such applications and may use research funds
authorized by this Act for such cooperative agreements.
SEC. 9. RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT.
The Administrator shall submit an annual report to
the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the
House of Representatives and the Committee on Environ-
ment and Public Works of the Senate setting out the ac-
complishments of the research, development, and dem-
onstration programs for which funds are authorized by
this Act and the significance of such accomplishments to
the Environmental Protection Agency’s mission.
SEC. 10. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND INFORMATION EX-
CHANGE.
The Administrator shall carry out a program of envi-
ronmental technology transfer and exchange of scientific
and technical information designed to make full and effec-
tive use of the Agency’s research, development, and dem-
onstration efforts. The Administrator may establish and
maintain resources necessary to advance such technology
transfer and information exchange program.
SEC. 11. RESEARCH TO SUPPORT THE EVALUATION OF
HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL RISK.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator shall es-
tablish a separately identified research program designed
to improve the capability of the Environmental Protection
Agency to identify, assess, and compare risks to public
health and natural ecosystems resulting from contamina-
tion of the environment.
(b) OBJECTIVES.—Under the program authorized by
subsection (a), the Administrator may conduct research
to—
(1) develop and improve methodologies for the
comparison of risks to public health and natural
ecosystems, including risks resulting from contami-
nation of different environmental media;
(2) facilitate the monitoring of pollutants and
contaminants discharged to the environment;
(3) identify and develop methodologies for as-
sessing and reducing risks to natural ecosystems;
(4) develop and improve methodologies for the
assessment of noncancer risks to public health and
the integrated assessment of cancer and noncancer
health risks;
(5) support any other activities of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency relating to the identifica-
tion, assessment, or comparison of risks to public
health and natural ecosystems resulting from con-
tamination of the environment; and
(6) develop improved methodologies for evaluat-
ing the benefits, both quantitatively and quali-
tatively, of ecological protection activities, including
improved methods to value natural resources and to
account for long-term environmental effects in the
Agency’s economic analysis.
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