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# 42 U.S.C. § 7382e - Waste management education research consortium (WERC)

## Text

(a) 11 So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted. In general The Secretary 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.

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