---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6631"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6631"
heading: "Establishment of Committee"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6631"
units:
  - "Chapter 79 — Science and Technology Policy, Organization and Priorities"
  - "Subchapter III — President’s Committee on Science and Technology"
---

# §6631. Establishment of Committee


The President shall establish within the Executive Office of the President a President’s Committee on Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as the “Committee”).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–282, title III, § 301, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 468.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Abolition of President’s Committee on Science and Technology; Transfer of Functions

The President’s Committee on Science and Technology, established pursuant to this subchapter, was abolished and its functions transferred to the President, by Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1977, § 5A, 42 F.R. 56101, 91 Stat. 1634, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, effective Feb. 26, 1978, as provided by section 1(b) of Ex. Ord. No. 12039, Feb. 24, 1978, 43 F.R. 8095, set out under section 6601 of this title.