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1 General Counsel shall be the chief legal officer of the De- 



2 partment and shall provide legal assistance to the Sec- 



3 retary concerning the programs and poUcies of the Depart- 



4 ment. 



5 SEC. 107. OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. 



6 The Office of Inspector Greneral of the Environmental 



7 Protection Agency, established in accordance with the In- 



8 spector General Act of 1978, is hereby redesignated as the 



9 Office of Inspector Greneral of the Department of the 



10 Environment. 



1 1 SEC. 108. BUREAU OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS. 



12 (a) Establishment. — (1) There is estabHshed with- 



13 in the Department a Bureau of Environmental Statistics 



14 (hereafter referred to as the "Bureau"). The Bureau shall 



15 be responsible for — 



16 (A) compiling, analyzing, and publishing a com- 



17 prehensive set of environmental quality statistics 



18 which should provide timely summary in the form of 



19 industrywide a^regates, multiyear averages, or to- 



20 tals or some similar form and include information 



21 on— 



22 (i) the nature, source, and amount of pol- 



23 lutants in the environment; and 



24 (ii) the effects on the public and the envi- 



25 ronment of those pollutants; 



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