(2) work to ensure that Federal policies, pro-
grams, activities, and standards address dispropor-
tionate risks to infants, children, and adolescents 
that result from environmental health risks or safety 
risks, including consideration of the unique environ-
mental justice concerns affecting infants, children, 
and adolescents; 
(3) coordinate Federal research and programs, 
including grant programs, to advance the activities 
described in paragraphs (1) and (2); and 
(4) carry out national activities to— 
(A) reduce negative environmental impacts 
on infants, children, and adolescents through 
involvement in rulemaking, policy, enforcement 
actions, research, and applications of science 
that 
focuses 
on 
prenatal 
and 
childhood 
vulnerabilities; 
(B) help protect infants, children, and ado-
lescents through promoting and issuing guid-
ance for safe chemicals management; 
(C) coordinate community-based programs 
to eliminate threats to infants’, children’s, and 
adolescents’ health; 
(D) increase the environmental health lit-
eracy of health care providers through support 
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of pediatric environmental health specialty 
units; 
(E) evaluate and communicate trends in 
environmental contaminants that may con-
tribute to childhood disease; 
(F) develop and publish resources for local 
educational agencies to establish, maintain, or 
enhance a school environmental health program; 
and 
(G) otherwise protect infants, children, and 
adolescents from environmental health risks or 
safety risks. 
(d) TRANSITION.—The Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency shall make such changes to the 
Office of Children’s Health Protection of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, as in existence on the day be-
fore the date of enactment of this Act, as may be nec-
essary for such Office to become the Office required by 
subsection (a). 
(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 
out this section, there is authorized to be appropriated 
$7,842,000 for fiscal year 2025 and each subsequent fiscal 
year. 
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SEC. 3. CHILDREN’S HEALTH PROTECTION ADVISORY COM-
MITTEE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Administrator of the En-
vironmental Protection Agency shall maintain an advisory 
committee, to be known as the Children’s Health Protec-
tion Advisory Committee, to— 
(1) provide advice and recommendations to the 
Administrator and other officials of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency regarding the programs 
and activities of the Office; 
(2) advise the Administrator and other officials 
of the Environmental Protection Agency on regula-
tions, research, and communications related to in-
fant’s, children’s and adolescent’s health; and 
(3) support the Environmental Protection 
Agency, including the Office, in implementing under 
Executive Order 13045 and other issues related to 
infants’, children’s, and adolescents’ health protec-
tion as deemed appropriate by the Administrator. 
(b) APPLICABILITY
OF
FACA.—The Children’s 
Health Protection Advisory Committee shall be subject to 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), ex-
cept that the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Com-
mittee shall be a permanent advisory committee and shall 
not terminate under section 14 of such Act. 
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(c) TRANSITION.—The President, acting through the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 
shall make such changes to the Children’s Health Protec-
tion Advisory Committee established pursuant to Execu-
tive Order 13045 (62 Fed. Reg. 19885; April 23, 1997) 
as may be necessary for such Advisory Committee to be-
come the advisory committee required by this section. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘Children’s Health Protection Ad-
visory Committee’’ means the advisory committee 
maintained pursuant to section 3. 
(2) The term ‘‘local educational agency’’ has 
the meaning given to such term in section 8101 of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
(3) The term ‘‘Office’’ means the Office of Chil-
dren’s Health Protection maintained pursuant to 
section 2. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
To carry out this Act, there is authorized to be appro-
priated $13,200,000 for each of fiscal years 2025 through 
2029. 
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