---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285l"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285l"
heading: "Purpose of Institute"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285l"
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. Purpose of Institute


The general purpose of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (in this subpart referred to as the “Institute”) is the conduct and support of research, training, health information dissemination, and other [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) with respect to factors in the environment that affect human health, directly or indirectly.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 463, as added Pub. L. 99–158, § 2, Nov. 20, 1985, 99 Stat. 857; amended Pub. L. 103–43, title XIII, § 1301(b), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 170.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1993—Pub. L. 103–43 inserted “(in this subpart referred to as the ‘Institute’)” after “Sciences”.