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title: "15 U.S.C. § 2402"
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title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
chapter_number: "51"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY AND QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE"
section: "2402"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 2402"
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# 15 U.S.C. § 2402 - Congressional statement of purpose

## Text

It is the purpose of this chapter—

(1) to establish a national policy which will encourage productivity growth consistent with needs of the economy, the natural environment, and the needs, rights, and best interests of management, the work force, and consumers; and

(2) to establish as an independent establishment of the executive branch a National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life to focus, coordinate, and promote efforts to improve the rate of productivity growth.

(Pub. L. 94–136, title I, § 102, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 734.)