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20 U.S.C. § 4017 — Administrative provisions
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**(a) Regulations** The Administrator shall promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to implement the authorities and requirements of this subchapter.
**(b) Procedures** The Administrator also shall establish procedures to be used by local educational agencies, in programs for which financial assistance is made available under [section 4014 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4014&num=0&edition=prelim), for—
(1) abating asbestos materials in school buildings;
(2) replacing the asbestos materials removed from school buildings with other appropriate building materials; and
(3) restoring such school buildings to conditions comparable to those existing before asbestos containment or removal activities were undertaken.
**(c) Relationship to other laws** Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed, interpreted, or applied to diminish in any way the level of protection required under any other State or Federal worker protection or other applicable laws.
**(d) Other authority** In order to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter, the Administrator may also adopt such other procedures, standards, and regulations as the Administrator deems necessary, including—
(1) procedures for testing the level of asbestos fibers in schools, including safety measures to be followed in conducting such tests;
(2) standards for evaluating (on the basis of such tests) the likelihood of the leakage of asbestos fibers into the school environment; and
(3) periodic reporting with respect to the activities that have taken place using funds loaned or granted under this subchapter.
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**(a) Regulations** The Administrator shall promulgate rules and regulations as necessary to implement the authorities and requirements of this subchapter.
**(b) Procedures** The Administrator also shall establish procedures to be used by local educational agencies, in programs for which financial assistance is made available under [section 4014 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4014&num=0&edition=prelim), for—
(1) abating asbestos materials in school buildings;
(2) replacing the asbestos materials removed from school buildings with other appropriate building materials; and
(3) restoring such school buildings to conditions comparable to those existing before asbestos containment or removal activities were undertaken.
**(c) Relationship to other laws** Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed, interpreted, or applied to diminish in any way the level of protection required under any other State or Federal worker protection or other applicable laws.
**(d) Other authority** In order to effectuate the purposes of this subchapter, the Administrator may also adopt such other procedures, standards, and regulations as the Administrator deems necessary, including—
(1) procedures for testing the level of asbestos fibers in schools, including safety measures to be followed in conducting such tests;
(2) standards for evaluating (on the basis of such tests) the likelihood of the leakage of asbestos fibers into the school environment; and
(3) periodic reporting with respect to the activities that have taken place using funds loaned or granted under this subchapter.
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**(a) Abatement program** There is hereby established a program within the Environmental Protection Agency to be known as the Asbestos Hazards Abatement Program (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as “Program”).
**(b) Duties** The duties of the Administrator in implementing and effectuating the Program shall include—
(1) the compilation of medical, scientific, and technical information including, but not limited to—
(A) the health and safety hazards associated with asbestos materials;
(B) the means of identifying, sampling, and testing materials suspected of emitting asbestos fibers; and
(C) the means of abating the threat posed by asbestos and asbestos containing materials;
(2) the distribution of the information described in paragraph (1) (in any appropriate form such as pamphlets, reports, or instructions) to State and local educational agencies and to other institutions, including parent and employee organizations, for the purpose of carrying out activities described in this subchapter;
(3) not later than November 15 of each year for which this subchapter is authorized, the development and distribution of applications, or notifications to all local educational agencies of the availability of application forms including information for obtaining such forms; and
(4) the review of applications for financial assistance, and the approval or disapproval of such applications, in accordance with the provisions of [section 4014 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4014&num=0&edition=prelim).
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Except as otherwise provided in [section 4017 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4017&num=0&edition=prelim), nothing in this subchapter shall—
(1) affect the right of any party to seek legal redress in connection with the purchase or installation of asbestos materials in schools or any claim of disability or death related to exposure to asbestos in a school setting; or
(2) affect the rights of any party under any other law.
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 4017
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on
Commerce of House of Representatives by section 1(a)
of Pub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21
of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Commerce of
House of Representatives changed to Committee on En-
ergy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and
jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and ex-
changes and insurance generally transferred to Com-
mittee on Financial Services of House of Representa-
tives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh
Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.
§ 4017. Recovery of costs
(a) Loan condition
(1) As a condition of the award of any financial
assistance under section 4014 of this title, the re-
cipient of any such loan or grant shall permit
the United States to sue on behalf of such re-
cipient any person determined by the Attorney
General to be liable to the recipient for the
costs of any activities undertaken by the recipi-
ent under such section.
(2) The proceeds from any judgment recovered
in any suit brought by the United States under
paragraph (1) (or, if the recipient files a similar
suit on its own behalf, the proceeds from a judg-
ment recovered by the recipient in such suit)
shall be used to repay to the United States, by
deposit in the Asbestos Trust Fund established
by section 4022 of this title, to the extent that
the proceeds are sufficient to provide for such
repayment, an amount equal to the sum of—
(A) the amount (i) outstanding on any loan
and (ii) of any grant made to the recipient;
and
(B) an amount equal to the interest which
would have been charged on such loan were
the loan made by
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