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104 STAT. 1752 PUBLIC LAW 101-510—NOV. 5, 1990 retary of Energy shall designate a member of the Council as chairman for each even-numbered fiscal year. "(d) The Council shall have the following responsibilities: "(1) To prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. "(2) To enter into contracts, grants, and other financial arrangements, in accordance with other applicable law, to carry out the purposes of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. "(3) To prepare an annual five-year strategic environmental research and development plan that shall cover the fiscal year in which the plan is prepared and the four fiscal years following such fiscal year. "(4) To promote the maximum exchange of information, and to minimize duplication, regarding environmentally related research, development, and demonstration activities through close coordination with the military departments and Defense Agencies, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, other departments and agencies of the Federal Government or any State and local governments, including the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology, and other organizations engaged in such activities. "(5) To ensure that research and development activities under the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program do not duplicate other ongoing activities sponsored by the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or any other department or agency of the Federal Government. "(6) To ensure that the research and development programs identified for support pursuant to policies and procedures prescribed by the council utilize, to the maximum extent possible, the talents, skills, and abilities residing at the Federal laboratories, including the Department of Energy multiprogram and defense laboratories, the Department of Defense laboratories, and Federal contract research centers. To utilize the research capabilities of institutions of higher education and private industry to the extent practicable. "(e) In carrying out subsection (d)(1), the Council shall prescribe policies and procedures that— "(1) provide for appropriate access by Federal Government personnel. State and local government personnel, college and university personnel, industry personnel, and the general public to data under the control of, or otherwise available to, the Department of Defense that is relevant to environmental matters by— "(A) identifying the sources of such data; "(B) publicizing the availability and sources of such data by appropriately-targeted dissemination of information to such personnel and the general public, and by other means; and "(C) providing for review of classified data relevant to environmental matters with a view to declassifying or preparing unclassified summaries of such data;