Sec. 113. Societal dimensions of nanotechnology
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The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall designate an associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy or other appropriate senior government official as the Coordinator for Environmental, Health, and Safety Research. The Coordinator shall be responsible for oversight of the coordination, planning, and budget prioritization of research and other activities related to environmental, health, safety, and other appropriate societal concerns related to nanotechnology. The responsibilities of the Coordinator shall include— ensuring that a research plan for the environmental, health, and safety research activities required under subsection
(b)is developed, updated, and implemented and that the plan is responsive to the recommendations of the Advisory Panel established under section 4(a) of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act ( 15 U.S.C. 7503(a) ); and encouraging and monitoring the efforts of the agencies participating in the Program to allocate the level of resources and management attention necessary to ensure that the environmental, health, safety, and other appropriate societal concerns related to nanotechnology are addressed under the Program. The Coordinator for Environmental, Health, and Safety Research shall convene and chair a panel comprised of representatives from the agencies funding research activities under the Environmental, Health, and Safety program component area of the Program, or any successor program component area, and from such other agencies as the Coordinator considers necessary to develop, periodically update, and coordinate the implementation of a research plan for this program component area. Such panel may be a subgroup of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. In developing and updating the plan, the panel convened by the Coordinator shall solicit and be responsive to recommendations and advice from— the Advisory Panel established under section 4(a) of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act ( 15 U.S.C. 7503(a) ); and the agencies responsible for environmental, health, and safety regulations associated with the production, use, and disposal of nanoscale materials and products. The plan required under paragraph
(1)shall include a description of how the Program will help to ensure the development of— standards related to nomenclature associated with engineered nanoscale materials; engineered nanoscale standard reference materials for environmental, health, and safety testing; and standards related to methods and procedures for detecting, measuring, monitoring, sampling, and testing engineered nanoscale materials for environmental, health, and safety impacts. The plan required under paragraph
(1)shall, with respect to activities described in paragraphs
(1)and (2)— specify near-term research objectives and long-term research objectives; specify milestones associated with each near-term objective and the estimated time and resources required to reach each milestone; with respect to subparagraphs
(A)and (B), describe the role of each agency carrying out or sponsoring research in order to meet the objectives specified under subparagraph
(A)and to achieve the milestones specified under subparagraph (B); and specify the funding allocated to each major objective of the plan and the source of funding by agency for the current fiscal year. Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the plan required under paragraph
(1)shall be transmitted to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives. The plan required under paragraph
(1)shall be updated at least every 3 years and may be submitted as part of the report required under section 2(c)(4) of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act ( 15 U.S.C. 7501(c)(4) ).
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