---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300mm–52"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300mm–52"
heading: "World Trade Center Health Registry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300mm-52"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXXI — World Trade Center Health Program"
  - "Part C — Research Into Conditions"
---

# §300mm–52. World Trade Center Health Registry


For the purpose of ensuring ongoing data collection relating to victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the WTC [Program](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) [Administrator](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=4) shall ensure that a registry of such victims is maintained that is at least as comprehensive as the World Trade Center Health Registry maintained under the arrangements in effect as of January 1, 2015, with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXXIII, § 3342, as added Pub. L. 111–347, title I, § 101, Jan. 2, 2011, 124 Stat. 3657; amended Pub. L. 114–113, div. O, title III, § 302(h), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 3000.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2015—Pub. L. 114–113 substituted “January 1, 2015” for “April 20, 2009”.