Risk Assessment Research and Demonstration Act of 1985

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Risk Assessment Research and Demonstration Act of 1985 - Directs the President to establish coordinated projects which shall be designed to: (1) improve the use of risk assessment within Federal agencies mandated by law to protect life, health, and the environment; (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. Describes risk assessment as the use of factual bases to quantify the effects of exposure to potentially hazardous materials and situations. Directs the President to designate an appropriate scientific advisory agency to coordinate the projects. Directs such agency to submit a report to the 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, …