---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13557"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13557"
heading: "Sense of Congress on risk assessments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13557"
units:
  - "Chapter 134 — Energy Policy"
  - "Subchapter XII — Miscellaneous"
  - "Part B — Other Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §13557. Sense of Congress on risk assessments


It is the sense of Congress that Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) 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](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19) 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.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–486, title XXX, § 3022, as added Pub. L. 109–58, title XIV, § 1401, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 1061.)