15 USC § 2695 - Grants for healthy school environments

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s2695"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 2695 - Grants for healthy school environments"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "2695"
section_name: "Grants for healthy school environments"
chapter_number: 53
chapter_name: "TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "HEALTHY HIGH-PERFORMANCE SCHOOLS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 94–469, title V, § 501, as added Pub. L. 110–140, title IV, § 461(a), Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1640.)"
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# § 2695. Grants for healthy school environments

**(a)** **In general** The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, may provide grants to States for use in—

**(1)** providing technical assistance for programs of the Environmental Protection Agency (including the Tools for Schools Program and the Healthy School Environmental Assessment Tool) to schools for use in addressing environmental issues; and

**(2)** development and implementation of State school environmental health programs that include—

**(A)** standards for school building design, construction, and renovation; and

**(B)** identification of ongoing school building environmental problems, including contaminants, hazardous substances, and pollutant emissions, in the State and recommended solutions to address those problems, including assessment of information on the exposure of children to environmental hazards in school facilities.

**(b)** **Sunset** December 19, 2007

The authority of the Administrator to carry out this section shall expire 5 years after .

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 94–469, title V, § 501, as added Pub. L. 110–140, title IV, § 461(a), Dec. 19, 2007, 121 Stat. 1640.)

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