---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10006"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10006"
heading: "Compliance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10006"
units:
  - "Chapter 107 — Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety"
---

# §10006. Compliance

- (a) **Implementation by Secretary—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/10003.md?p=6) shall take all actions consistent with law to effectuate the purposes of this chapter.
- (b) **Accreditation or certification program—** A [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) may utilize an accreditation or certification program administered by a private entity if—
  - (1) such [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) delegates the administration of the [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) accreditation or certification program to such private entity;
  - (2) such program is approved by the [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7); and
  - (3) such program is consistent with the minimum Federal standards promulgated under this chapter for such program.
- (c) **Noncompliance; proposed legislative changes—** Absent compliance by the [States](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) with the provisions of this chapter within three years after August 13, 1981, the [Secretary](/usc/42/10003.md?p=6) shall report to the Congress recommendations for legislative changes considered necessary to assure the [States](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7)’ compliance with this chapter.
- (d) **Repealed. Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1061(b), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 719—**
- (e) **Existing standards and guidelines—** Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, in the case of a [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) which has, prior to the effective date of standards and guidelines promulgated pursuant to this chapter, established standards for the accreditation of educational programs and certification of radiologic technologists, such [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) shall be deemed to be in compliance with the conditions of this section unless the [Secretary](/usc/42/10003.md?p=6) determines, after notice and hearing, that such [State](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7) standards do not meet the minimum standards prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/42/10003.md?p=6) or are inconsistent with the purposes of this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 981, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 600; Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1061(b), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 719.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1995—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–66 struck out subsec. (d) which read as follows: “The Secretary shall be responsible for continued monitoring of compliance by the States with the applicable provisions of this chapter and shall report to the Senate and the House of Representatives by January 1, 1982, and January 1 of each succeeding year the status of the States’ compliance with the purposes of this chapter.”