---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4364"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4364"
heading: "Expenditure of funds for research and development related to regulatory program activities"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4364"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §4364. Expenditure of funds for research and development related to regulatory program activities

- (a) **Coordination, etc., with research needs and priorities of program offices and Environmental Protection Agency—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection Agency shall assure that the expenditure of any [funds](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) appropriated pursuant to this Act or any other provision of law for environmental research and development related to regulatory [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) activities shall be coordinated with and reflect the research needs and priorities of the [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) [offices](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1), as well as the overall research needs and priorities of the Agency, including those defined in the five-year research plan.
- (b) **Program offices subject to coverage—** For purposes of [subsection (a)](#a), the appropriate [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) [offices](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) are—
  - (1) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Air and Waste Management, for air quality activities;
  - (2) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Water and Hazardous Materials, for water quality activities and water supply activities;
  - (3) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Pesticides, for environmental effects of pesticides;
  - (4) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of [Solid Waste](/usc/42/7546.md?p=a-1), for [solid waste](/usc/42/7546.md?p=a-1) activities;
  - (5) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Toxic Substances, for toxic substance activities;
  - (6) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Radiation [Programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4), for radiation activities; and
  - (7) the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Noise Abatement and Control, for noise activities.
- (c) **Report to Congress; contents—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) shall submit to the President and the Congress a report concerning the most appropriate means of assuring, on a continuing basis, that the research efforts of the Agency reflect the needs and priorities of the regulatory [program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) [offices](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1), while maintaining a high level of scientific quality. Such report shall be submitted on or before March 31, 1978.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–155, § 7, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1259.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 95–155, Nov. 8, 1977, 91 Stat. 1257, known as the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, which to the extent classified to the Code enacted sections 300j–3a, 4361a, 4361b, and 4363 to 4367 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Environmental Research, Development, and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978, and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.