---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5903b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5903b"
heading: "Environmental and safety research, development, and demonstration program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5903b"
units:
  - "Chapter 74 — Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development"
---

# §5903b. Environmental and safety research, development, and demonstration program


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) shall conduct an environmental and safety research, development, and demonstration program related to fossil fuels.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–187, title III, § 316, Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1077; Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(a), title VII, §§ 703, 707, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 577, 606, 607.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as a part of the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

“Secretary”, meaning Secretary of Energy, substituted in text for “Administrator”, meaning Administrator of Energy Research and Development Administration, pursuant to sections 301(a), 703, and 707 of Pub. L. 95–91, which are classified to sections 7151(a), 7293, and 7297 of this title and which terminated Energy Research and Development Administration and transferred its functions and functions of Administrator thereof (with certain exceptions) to Secretary of Energy.