---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7382e"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7382e"
heading: "Waste management education research consortium (WERC)"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7382e"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowships"
---

# §7382e. Waste management education research consortium (WERC)

- (a) **1 In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/7382b.md?p=4) is authorized to establish a partnership of Department of Energy laboratories, academic institutions, and private sector industries to conduct environmentally-related education programs, including programs involving environmentally conscious manufacturing and waste management activities that have undergraduate and graduate educational training as a component.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–382, title V, § 517, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 4044.)