The National Science Policy and Priorities Act of 1972,'' (S. 32) provides funds to retrain scientists and engineers and a program to put them to work creating systems to improve public services. (BL)

Examines the legislative accomplishment of the 94th Congress on bills relating to energy, health, research, and topics relating to general science. Includes a diagram of bills introduced, committee and floor action by the house and senate, and the final outcome. (SL)

Nixon administration and chemical industry won some concessions on legislation being proposed to regulate new and existing toxic chemicals. (Author/RH)

Discusses legislation recently passed by Congress in response to the energy crisis, and the Nixon Administration's proposal for creating a new Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and a Nuclear Energy Commission (NEC). (JR)

Discusses recent developments in Congressional legislation pertaining to science and technology, particularly in relation to the chemical industry. (MLH)

Outlines Research and Development appropriations for fiscal year 1978 which have been passed by Congress. (SL)

Describes details of a bill now before the Senate covering the National Science Foundation (NSF) budget for fiscal 1977. Among its provisions are requirements for various NSF research reports to Congressional committees, and a provision that gives NSF a greater role in United States international science affairs. (MLH)

Summarizes the Administration's amendments to the Clean Air Act and indicates that the proposals are more moderate and less exacerbating than some previous options. (CC)

Summarizes the recommendations made by the Panel on Chemical and Health of the President's Science Advisory Committee. Indicates the need of research in the biological effect of chemicals and a scientific flexibility rather than legal rigidity in their regulation. (CC)

The content of recent American Chemical Society public policy letters to government officials on the subject of women in science and patent legislation is detailed. (BT)

Notes the direction manufacturing industries are moving in the change-over to use of the metric system. Chances for a metric bill's becoming public law seem mixed. (EB)

The position of industry vs. that of Government-labor-ACS on the proposed work-place standard for vinyl chloride is specified. (DT)

Reports on the ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which set aside the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations on lead in gasoline. (GS)

Second of three articles that probe the nature of federal involvement in science. The role of Congress in formulating and implementing science policy is changing to a more activist one. Congress is seetting up mechanisms to interpret the flood of information used in making policy decisions. (Author/TS)

Calls on the users and producers and publishers of scientific information to aid in the design of practical systems for information dissemination that will encompass not only copyright law but also computer file access. (GS)