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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2224
To establish the Office of National Environmental Technologies, and for
other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 20, 1993
Mr. KENNEDY introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, Banking, Finance and
Urban Affairs, and the Judiciary
A BILL
To establish the Office of National Environmental
Technologies, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Office of National En-
vironmental Technologies Act’’.
SEC. 2. PURPOSE.
It is the purpose of this Act—
(1) to improve coordination and integration of
research and development performed by government
agencies and that performed through government-
awarded contracts and grants; and
(2) to assist the efforts of private industry, uni-
versities, nonprofit research centers, and government
laboratories to provide environmentally safe tech-
nical solutions to problems threatening the Nation’s
environmental security and, in the process, to help
the Nation’s competitiveness.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
(2) the term ‘‘Advisory Council’’ means the In-
dustry and Academia Advisory Council established
by section 5;
(3) the term ‘‘Assistant Administrator’’ means
the Assistant Administrator, Office of National En-
vironmental Technologies, Environmental Protection
Agency;
(4) the term ‘‘Fund’’ means the Environmental
Advanced Research Projects Revolving Fund estab-
lished by section 9; and
(5) the term ‘‘Office’’ means the Office of Na-
tional Environmental Technologies established pur-
suant to section 4.
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—(1) The Administrator shall
establish within the Environmental Protection Agency an
Office of National Environmental Technologies to be head-
ed by an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency. The duties and responsibilities of the
Administrator set forth in this Act shall be carried out
through the Office.
(2) Section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new item:
‘‘Assistant Administrator, Office of National
Environmental Technologies, Environmental Protec-
tion Agency.’’.
(b) STAFF.—The Administrator may appoint a staff
of professionals with skills in the area of program defini-
tion and management and such support staff as the Ad-
ministrator determines to be necessary, of which no more
than 3 may be in positions of a confidential or policy-
making character.
(c) FUNCTIONS.—It shall be the function of the Of-
fice to—
(1) coordinate planning by the departments,
agencies, and independent establishments of the
United States relating to restoration and protection
of the environment;
(2) identify areas that—
(A) need technical solutions to maintain
the environmental security of the Nation;
(B) are not receiving the long-term prod-
uct-oriented research that is necessary to meet
those needs; and
(C) exhibit the greatest promise for the
successful development of solutions;
(3) support and assist the development of tech-
nology having potential future application in the res-
toration and protection of the environment;
(4) coordinate among the departments, agen-
cies, independent establishments of the United
States and the private sector the exchange of tech-
nological information relating to restoration and pro-
tection of the environment;
(5) support continuing research and develop-
ment of advanced technologies by industrial, aca-
demic, and governmental and nongovernmental
entities;
(6) monitor on a continuing basis the research
and development being conducted on advanced tech-
nologies by private industry in the United States;
and
(7) promote continuing development of a tech-
nological industrial base in the United States.