§ 2413. Biennial report. The commissioner shall submit a report on or
before January first commencing in nineteen hundred ninety-nine, and
biennially thereafter, to the governor, the temporary president of the
senate and the speaker of the assembly concerning the operation of the
health research science board. Such report shall include recommendations
from the health research science board including, but not limited to,
the types of data that would be useful for breast cancer researchers and
whether private citizen use of residential pesticides should be added to
the reporting requirements. The report shall also include a summary of
research requests granted or denied. In addition, such report shall
include an evaluation by the commissioner, the commissioner of the
department of environmental conservation and the health research science
board of the basis, efficiency and scientific utility of the information
derived from pesticide reporting pursuant to sections 33-1205 and
33-1207 of the environmental conservation law and recommend whether such
system should be modified or continued. The report shall include a
summary of the comments and recommendations presented by the public at
the board's public hearings.