| 1. | U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8. See http://www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html. |
| 2. | 15 USC 7501, Page 117 STAT. 1923. See http://www.nano.gov/html/news/PresSignsNanoBill.htm for a press release and a pointer to the text of the law. |
| 3. | http://www.nano.gov/NNI_Strategic_Plan_2004.pdf. |
| 4. | http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/rddis06b.pdf. |
| 5. | http://www.nano.gov/html/society/EHS.htm. See also the nanotechnology Web sites at the Food and Drug Administration (http://www.fda.gov/nanotechnology/), the Environmental Protection Agency (http://www.epa.gov/ordntrnt/ORD/accomplishments/nanotechnology.html), and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/nanotech/). |
| 6. | NNI Strategic Plan, http://www.nano.gov/NNI_Strategic_Plan_2004.pdf, Preface, p. iii. |
| 7. | See http://nnin.org/. |
| 8. | Network for Computational Nanotechnology, http://ncn.purdue.edu/. |
| 9. | NNI Strategic Plan, http://www.nano.gov/NNI_Strategic_Plan_2004.pdf, Executive Summary, p. i. |
| 10. | Interagency Working Group on Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Implications (NEHI). See http://www.nano.gov/html/society/EHS.htm. |
| 11. | See the NSF Grant Policy Manual, http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02151/, in particular Chapter VII, "Other Grant Requirements," and the sections in Chapter IX on research misconduct and on termination policies and procedures. |
| 12. | http://www.cpsc.gov. |
| 13. | http://www.osha.gov. |
| 14. | http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/. |
| 15. | http://www.epa.gov. |
| 16. | http://www.niehs.nih.gov. |
| 17. | http://www.fda.gov. |
| 18. | See U.S. Federal Register notice, volume 70, number 89 (May 10, 2005): 2457424576 (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html). |
