{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s13557","title_num":"42","num":"§ 13557.","heading":"Sense of Congress on risk assessments","status":null,"guid":"id7b826983-4aa7-11eb-94f5-9ff2c44f6f3c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 102–486, title XXX, § 3022, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XIV, § 1401, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1061.)","seq_in_title":6915,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch134/schXII/ptB","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42","level":"title","num":"Title 42—","heading":"THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch134","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 134—","heading":"ENERGY POLICY","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch134/schXII","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER XII—","heading":"MISCELLANEOUS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch134/schXII/ptB","level":"part","num":"Part B—","heading":"Other Miscellaneous Provisions","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id8fa7739e-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s13557\"><num value=\"13557\">§ 13557.</num><heading> Sense of Congress on risk assessments</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">It is the sense of Congress that Federal agencies conducting assessments of risks to human health and the environment from energy technology, production, transport, transmission, distribution, storage, use, or conservation activities shall use sound and objective scientific practices in assessing such risks, shall consider the best available science (including peer reviewed studies), and shall include a description of the weight of the scientific evidence concerning such risks.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id8fa7739f-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/102/486/tXXX/s3022\">Pub. L. 102–486, title XXX, § 3022</ref>, as added <ref href=\"/us/pl/109/58/tXIV/s1401\">Pub. L. 109–58, title XIV, § 1401</ref>, <date date=\"2005-08-08\">Aug. 8, 2005</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/119/1061\">119 Stat. 1061</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-19","currency_date":"2019-05-31","congress":116,"law_num":19,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":174,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["25","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}