---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285l–6"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285l–6"
heading: "Methods of controlling certain insect and vermin populations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285l-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 12 — national institute of environmental health sciences"
---

# §285l–6. Methods of controlling certain insect and vermin populations


The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute shall conduct or support research to identify or develop methods of controlling insect and vermin populations that transmit to humans diseases that have significant adverse health consequences.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 463B, as added Pub. L. 108–75, § 3, Aug. 15, 2003, 117 Stat. 902.)