20 USC § 3601 - Congressional statement of findings and purposes
(a)
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 concentrations 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 identifying hazardous conditions in schools or for remedying those conditions;
(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;
(b)
It is the purpose of this chapter to—
(1)
direct the Secretary of Education to establish a task force 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)
require States receiving administrative funds for any applicable program (as defined under section
1221
(c)(1)(A)
[1]
of this title) to prepare a plan describing the manner in which information relating to programs established under this chapter shall be distributed to local educational agencies;
(3)
provide scientific, technical, and financial assistance to State educational agencies and local educational agencies to enable them to conduct an asbestos detection program to identify asbestos hazards in schools;
[1] See References in Text note below.
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(a)
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 concentrations 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 identifying hazardous conditions in schools or for remedying those conditions;
(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;
(b)
It is the purpose of this chapter to—
(1)
direct the Secretary of Education to establish a task force 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)
require States receiving administrative funds for any applicable program (as defined under section
1221
(c)(1)(A)
[1]
of this title) to prepare a plan describing the manner in which information relating to programs established under this chapter shall be distributed to local educational agencies;
(3)
provide scientific, technical, and financial assistance to State educational agencies and local educational agencies to enable them to conduct an asbestos detection program to identify asbestos hazards in schools;
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source
(Pub. L. 96–270, § 2,June 14, 1980, 94 Stat. 487.)
References in Text
Section
1221 of this title, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), was amended generally by Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 211,Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3912, and, as so amended, no longer contains a subsec. (c)(1)(A). However, the term “applicable program” is defined in subsec. (c)(1) of that section.
Short Title
Section 1 ofPub. L. 96–270provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter and amending section
1411 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980’.”
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