[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3568 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3568

To support and develop environmentally advanced technologies education 
                               curricula.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 1993

Mr. Minge introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to 
     the Committees on Education and Labor and Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To support and develop environmentally advanced technologies education 
                               curricula.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Environmentally Advanced 
Technologies Education Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Environmentally sound, long-term economic growth can be 
        substantially improved through the greater availability of 
        educational materials that clarify the relationships between 
        technological and economic activities and the environment.
            (2) Several State and local governments have been on the 
        forefront of developing educational materials regarding waste 
        minimization and recycling, and these activities should be made 
        known across the United States to allow other communities to 
        replicate successes.
            (3) In addition to waste minimization and recycling, 
        educational curricula should also address the full range of 
        significant environmental impacts from economic activities.
            (4) Technical and vocational schools have often been 
        overlooked in existing environmental education programs but 
        have the potential for making a significant positive 
        contribution to the development and use of more environmentally 
        sound practices and products.

 SEC. 3. GENERAL EDUCATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES.

    (a) In General.--The Director of the Office of Research and 
Development of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation and 
coordination with other Federal agencies (including the National 
Science Foundation) and agencies of State and local governments, shall 
develop and support programs and related efforts to improve 
understanding of the relationships between technology and the 
environment, including--
            (1) information on--
                    (A) relations between economic activity and the 
                environment and opportunities for improvement in such 
                relations; and
                    (B) systems which encompass resource extraction or 
                introduction, transformation, consumption, recycle and 
                disposal, and the energy and resources consumed and the 
                value-yielding results; and
            (2) any other information the Director of the Office of 
        Research and Development of the Environmental Protection 
        Agency, in consultation with other Federal agencies (including 
        the National Science Foundation) and agencies of State and 
        local governments, considers appropriate.
    (b) Program Functions and Activities.--The programs and efforts 
referred to in subsection (a) shall include, at a minimum--
            (1) the development and widest dissemination practicable of 
        model curricula, educational materials, and training programs 
        for technical college, secondary, and elementary students and 
        other interested groups;
            (2) the provision of information to local education 
        agencies, State education and natural resource agencies, and 
        others; and
            (3) the training of education professionals in the 
        development and delivery of the environmental education 
        materials developed under this Act.

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