---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2695a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "2695a"
heading: "Model guidelines for siting of school facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/2695a"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Toxic Substances Control"
  - "Subchapter V — Healthy High-Performance Schools"
---

# §2695a. Model guidelines for siting of school facilities


Not later than 18 months after December 19, 2007, the [Administrator](/usc/15/2602.md?p=1), in consultation with the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall issue voluntary school site selection guidelines that account for—

- (1) the special vulnerability of children to hazardous substances or pollution exposures in any case in which the potential for contamination at a potential school site exists;
- (2) modes of transportation available to students and staff;
- (3) the efficient use of energy; and
- (4) the potential use of a school at the site as an emergency shelter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–469, title V, § 502, as added Pub. L. 110–140, title IV, § 461(a), Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1640.)