A bill to establish coordinated interagency research and demonstration projects for improving knowledge and use of risk assessment by those Federal agencies concerned with regulatory decisions related to the protection of human life, health, and the environment, and to provide for the establishment of a Central Board of Scientific Risk Analysis as a means of improving the scientific review and evaluation of risk analyses made by Federal agencies, with particular emphasis upon risk analyses involving issues of chronic health hazards.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Title I: Risk Assessment Research and Development - Risk Assessment Research and Demonstration Act of 1983 - Directs the President to establish and direct coordinated projects which shall be designed to: (1) improve the use of risk assessment within Federal agencies; (2) develop a systematic approach to the use of risk assessment by Federal agencies; (3) identify research needed to improve risk assessment; and (4) bring public awareness to the nature of regulated risks. Directs the President to designate an agency or agencies to coordinate the projects. Directs the coordinating agencies to submit a report to Congress which includes: (1) a review of the risk assessments presently being carried out in Federal agencies; (2) recommendations for sharing research results among Federal agencies; (3) a proposal for the risk assessment demonstration projects required by this Act to be undertaken by specified Federal agencies; and (4) identification of the areas where the use of the results of a risk assessment is required, encouraged, limited, or prohibited by current law, regulation, or practice. Requires specified Federal agencies to recommend to the coordinating agencies research project…