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20 U.S.C. § 4013 — Findings and purpose
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds that—
(1) exposure to asbestos fibers has been identified over a long period of time and by reputable medical and scientific evidence as significantly increasing the incidence of cancer and other severe or fatal diseases, such as asbestosis;
(2) medical evidence has suggested that children may be particularly vulnerable to environmentally induced cancers;
(3) medical science has not established any minimum level of exposure to asbestos fibers which is considered to be safe to individuals exposed to the fibers;
(4) substantial amounts of asbestos, particularly in sprayed form, have been used in school buildings, especially during the period 1946 through 1972;
(5) partial surveys in some States have indicated that (A) in a number of school buildings materials containing asbestos fibers have become damaged or friable, causing asbestos fibers to be dislodged into the air, and (B) asbestos concentration far exceeding normal ambient air levels have been found in school buildings containing such damaged materials;
(6) the presence in school buildings of friable or easily damaged asbestos creates an unwarranted hazard to the health of the school children and school employees who are exposed to such materials;
(7) the Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as several States, have attempted to publicize the potential hazards to school children and employees from exposure to asbestos fibers, but there is no systematic program for remedying hazardous conditions in schools;
(8) because there is no Federal health standard regulating the concentration of asbestos fibers in noncommercial workplace environments such as schools, school employees and students may be exposed to hazardous concentra
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds that—
(1) exposure to asbestos fibers has been identified over a long period of time and by reputable medical and scientific evidence as significantly increasing the incidence of cancer and other severe or fatal diseases, such as asbestosis;
(2) medical evidence has suggested that children may be particularly vulnerable to environmentally induced cancers;
(3) medical science has not established any minimum level of exposure to asbestos fibers which is considered to be safe to individuals exposed to the fibers;
(4) substantial amounts of asbestos, particularly in sprayed form, have been used in school buildings, especially during the period 1946 through 1972;
(5) partial surveys in some States have indicated that (A) in a number of school buildings materials containing asbestos fibers have become damaged or friable, causing asbestos fibers to be dislodged into the air, and (B) asbestos concentration far exceeding normal ambient air levels have been found in school buildings containing such damaged materials;
(6) the presence in school buildings of friable or easily damaged asbestos creates an unwarranted hazard to the health of the school children and school employees who are exposed to such materials;
(7) the Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as several States, have attempted to publicize the potential hazards to school children and employees from exposure to asbestos fibers, but there is no systematic program for remedying hazardous conditions in schools;
(8) because there is no Federal health standard regulating the concentration of asbestos fibers in noncommercial workplace environments such as schools, school employees and students may be exposed to hazardous concentrations of asbestos fibers in the school buildings which they use each day;
(9) without a program of information distribution, technical and scientific assistance, and financial support, many local educational agencies and States will not be able to mitigate the potential asbestos hazards in their schools; and
(10) the effective regulation of interstate commerce for the protection of the public health requires the establishment of programs under this subchapter to mitigate hazards from exposure to asbestos fibers and materials emitting such fibers.
**(b) Purpose** It is the purpose of this subchapter to—
(1) direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to assist States and local educational agencies to ascertain the extent of the danger to the health of school children and employees from asbestos materials in schools;
(2) provide continuing scientific and technical assistance to State and local agencies to enable them to identify and abate asbestos hazards in schools;
(3) provide financial assistance for the abatement of asbestos threats to the health and safety of school children or employees; and
(4) assure that no employee of any local educational agency suffers any disciplinary action as a result of calling attention to potential asbestos hazards which may exist in schools.
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**(a) Grants** The Administrator is authorized to award grants under this section to nonprofit organizations that demonstrate experience in implementing and operating health and safety asbestos training and education programs for workers who are or will be engaged in asbestos-related activities (including State and local governments, colleges and universities, joint labor-management trust funds, and nonprofit government employee organizations) to establish and, or, operate asbestos training programs on a not-for-profit basis. Applications for grants under this subsection shall be submitted in such form and manner, and contain such information, as the Administrator prescribes.
**(b) Authorization** Of such sums as are authorized to be appropriated pursuant to [section 4021(a) of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4021/a&num=0&edition=prelim) for the fiscal years 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, not more than $5,000,000 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section in each such fiscal year.
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds that—
(1) human beings and the environment are being exposed each year to a large number of chemical substances and mixtures;
(2) among the many chemical substances and mixtures which are constantly being developed and produced, there are some whose manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, use, or disposal may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment; and
(3) the effective regulation of interstate commerce in such chemical substances and mixtures also necessitates the regulation of intrastate commerce in such chemical substances and mixtures.
**(b) Policy** It is the policy of the United States that—
(1) adequate information should be developed with respect to the effect of chemical substances and mixtures on health and the environment and that the development of such information should be the responsibility of those who manufacture and those who process such chemical substances and mixtures;
(2) adequate authority should exist to regulate chemical substances and mixtures which present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, and to take action with respect to chemical substances and mixtures which are imminent hazards; and
(3) authority over chemical substances and mixtures should be exercised in such a manner as not to impede unduly or create unnecessary economic barriers to technological innovation while fulfilling the primary purpose of this chapter to assure that such innovation and commerce in such chemical substances and mixtures do not present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.
**(c) Intent of Congress** It is the intent of Congress that the Administrator shall carry out this chapter in a reasonable and prudent manner, and that the Admin
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**(a) Assistance Program** There is hereby established within the Environmental Protection Agency an Asbestos Hazards Abatement Assistance Program (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the “Assistance Program”), which shall be administered in accordance with this section.
**(b) Application submission**
(1) Applications for financial assistance shall be submitted by a local educational agency to the Governor, or the Governor’s designee, who shall establish a priority list based on the criteria of [section 4013(b)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4013/b/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) Pursuant to [section 4013 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4013&num=0&edition=prelim), the Governor shall submit applications, together with the Governor’s report and priority list, to the Administrator who shall review and rank such applications pursuant to subsection (c)(2) and propose financing pursuant to the criteria of [section 4013(b)(4) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section4013/b/4&num=0&edition=prelim). The Administrator shall approve or disapprove applications for financial assistance no later than April 30 of each year.
**(c) Review of application**
(1) The Administrator shall provide financial assistance on a school-by-school basis to local educational agencies in accordance with other provisions of this section to carry out projects for—
(A) abating the threat posed by materials containing asbestos to the health and safety of children or employees;
(B) replacing the asbestos materials removed from school buildings with other appropriate building materials; and
(C) restoring school buildings t
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TITLE 20—EDUCATION
§ 4013
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
SHORT TITLE OF 1990 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 101–637, § 1, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4589, pro-
vided that: ‘‘This Act [enacting section 2656 of Title 15,
Commerce and Trade, amending this section, sections
4012 to 4022 of this title, and sections 2643, 2646, and 2647
of Title 15, enacting provisions set out as notes under
this section and sections 2646 and 2656 of Title 15, and
amending provisions set out as a note under this sec-
tion] may be cited as the ‘Asbestos School Hazard
Abatement Reauthorization Act of 1990’.’’
SHORT TITLE
SPub. L. 98–377, title V, § 501, Aug. 11, 1984, 98 Stat.
1287, as amended by Pub. L. 101–637, § 14(a)(1), Nov. 28,
1990, 104 Stat. 4594, provided that: ‘‘This title [enacting
this subchapter] may be cited as the ‘Asbestos School
Hazard Abatement Act of 1984’.’’
FINDINGS AND PURPOSES
Pub. L. 101–637, § 2, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4589, pro-
vided that:
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
‘‘(1) The Environmental Protection Agency has es-
timated that more than forty-four thousand school
buildings contain friable asbestos, exposing more
than fifteen million school children and one million
five hundred thousand school employees to unwar-
ranted health hazards.
‘‘(2) All elementary and secondary schools are re-
quired by the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response
Act [of 1986, see Short Title of 1986 Amendment note
set out under section 2601 of Title 15, Commerce and
Trade] to inspect for asbestos, develop an asbestos
management plan, and implement such plan.
‘‘(3) The Environmental Protection Agency has es-
timated it will cost local education agencies more
than $3,000,000,000 to comply with the Asbestos Haz-
ard Emergency Response Act.
‘‘(4) W
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