2013 US Code
Title 2 - The Congress
Chapter 15 - OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT (§§ 471 - 481)
Section 471 - Congressional findings and declaration of purpose
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 2 - THE CONGRESS |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 2 - THE CONGRESS CHAPTER 15 - OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT Sec. 471 - Congressional findings and declaration of purpose |
Contains | section 471 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Short Titles | Technology Assessment Act of 1972.</p> |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 92-484, §2, Oct. 13, 1972, 86 Stat. 797. |
Statutes at Large References | 86 Stat. 797 109 Stat. 526 |
Public Law References | Public Law 92-484, Public Law 104-53 |
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The Congress hereby finds and declares that:
(a) As technology continues to change and expand rapidly, its applications are—
(1) large and growing in scale; and
(2) increasingly extensive, pervasive, and critical in their impact, beneficial and adverse, on the natural and social environment.
(b) Therefore, it is essential that, to the fullest extent possible, the consequences of technological applications be anticipated, understood, and considered in determination of public policy on existing and emerging national problems.
(c) The Congress further finds that:
(1) the Federal agencies presently responsible directly to the Congress are not designed to provide the legislative branch with adequate and timely information, independently developed, relating to the potential impact of technological applications, and
(2) the present mechanisms of the Congress do not and are not designed to provide the legislative branch with such information.
(d) Accordingly, it is necessary for the Congress to—
(1) equip itself with new and effective means for securing competent, unbiased information concerning the physical, biological, economic, social, and political effects of such applications; and
(2) utilize this information, whenever appropriate, as one factor in the legislative assessment of matters pending before the Congress, particularly in those instances where the Federal Government may be called upon to consider support for, or management or regulation of, technological applications.
(Pub. L. 92–484, §2, Oct. 13, 1972, 86 Stat. 797.)
SHORT TITLEPub. L. 92–484, §1, Oct. 13, 1972, 86 Stat. 797, provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter and amending section 1862 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare] may be cited as the ‘Technology Assessment Act of 1972’.”
TERMINATION OF OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTPub. L. 104–53, title I, §§113, 114, Nov. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 526, provided that:
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