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House Passes Legislation to Strengthen Nanotechnology Safety Research (Nanotechwire, 6/7/08) |
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June 07, 2008 |
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H.R. 5940, the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments
Act of 2008 passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 407 to 6. H.R.
5940 reauthorizes and refines the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI),
notably strengthening the commitment to environmental and safety research.
…H.R. 5940 assigns responsibility to a senior White House
official to ensure that a detailed implementation plan for Environmental,
Health, and Safety (EHS) research is developed and executed – a plan that
specifies both near-term and long term objectives, provides a timeline for
achieving the near-term objectives, and identifies the funding, by objective and
by agency, necessary to carry it out. The legislation also requires the plan to
be responsive to recommendations from the NNI external advisory committee and
requires the development of a publicly accessible database containing every EHS
research project supported under the NNI.
Read the full article here.
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Last Updated ( June 09, 2008 )
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