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Dr. Andrea Wargo
Associate Administrator Washington Office

ATSDR leadership emphasizes timely responses to Congress, health and environmental groups, and communities on key public health issues surrounding ATSDR activities at Superfund sites. The issues and activities involving the public health concerns, legislation, and resource needs of ATSDR are dynamic, requiring the active participation of staff in Washington, D.C. The Washington Office link enables the Agency to obtain critical legislative information pertinent to ATSDR activities and to build constituents to help support the Agency's mission. Attendance of the Washington, D.C., Office staff at Congressional hearings enables the Agency to keep abreast of issues important to ATSDR, including Superfund, RCRA, lead poisoning prevention, and community-right-to-know laws.

The Washington Office staff coordinates information exchange among various environmental and health organizations, citizens, and Congress. The timely responses from ATSDR through the Washington staff have promoted the Agency's mission to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposures to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment.

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Bills that Mention the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry ATSDR)
105th Congress
Status As of June 26, 1998

(Table prepared by Molla Sarros, Washington Office)

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Table of Bills: 105th Congress

Bill Number Sponsor, Date Introduced Title Relevance to ATSDR Status
HR 1080 Saxton (R-NJ),
3/13/97
Michael Gillick Childhood Cancer Research Act "A bill to study the high rate of cancer among children in Dover Township, New Jersey, and for other purposes." Mandates that ATSDR conduct dose-reconstruction modeling and an epidemiological study of childhood cancer in Dover Township, New Jersey. Referred to Commerce Committee, 3/13/97, Companion Bill, S. 453.
HR 1411 Burr (R-NC),
4/23/97
Drug and Biological Products Modernization Act of 1997 "A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, cosmetics, and devices, and for other purposes." The Secretary of Health and Human Services "shall consult with the Administrator of ATSDR" (and consult with other agencies) in conducting a study of mercury compounds in drugs and food. Referred to Commerce Committee; Incorporated into S. 830, 10/7/97, and S. 830 was approved 11/21/97; H.R. 1411 was tabled (by voice vote) in House 10/7/97.
HR 2102 Talent (R-MO),
6/26/97
Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, Amendment "A bill to amend the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 to repeal the sunset of the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Ombudsman, and for other purposes." Mandates that the Office of Ombudsman issue a report to Congress "on the status of health and environmental concerns addressed by Ombudsman cases," including "recommendations for improvements to the hazardous waste programs for which the [EPA] and to the extent appropriate, [ATSDR] are responsible." Referred to Commerce Committee, 6/26/97.
HR 2158 Lewis, Jerry (R-CA), 7/11/97 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 "A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1998, and for other purposes." Provides "That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, $74,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to [ATSDR] to carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of SARA: . . . Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for [ATSDR] to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 1998."
Approved 10/27/97: Public Law 105-65;
S. 1034, as amended, had been incorporated into this bill, 7/22/97; Conference Committee Report that corresponds to H.R. 2158 is H.Rpt. 105-297.
HR 2451 Moran, Jim (D-VA), 9/10/97 Children's Environmental Protection Act "A bill to protect children and other vulnerable subpopulations from exposure to certain environmental pollutants, and for other purposes." Mandates that scientific research opportunities be identified by the EPA, DHHS (including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and ATSDR), the National Institutes of Health, and other Federal agencies, "to study the short-term and long-term health effects of cumulative, simultaneous, and synergistic exposures of children and other vulnerable subpopulations to environmental pollutants." Referred to Commerce Committee, 9/10/97; Companion/similar bill,
S. 599.
HR 2727 Boehlert (R-NY),
10/23/97
Superfund Acceleration, Fairness, and Efficiency Act, "SAFE." "A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to reauthorize and reform the Superfund program, and for other purposes." Mandates that the President provide the opportunity for the establishment of a Community Advisory Group, and this group "shall provide information and views to. . . as appropriate . . . [ATSDR]" (and other agencies and entities); amends the human health provisions of CERCLA, modifying, taking from, and/or adding to ATSDR's authorities with regard to toxicological profiles, preliminary and full public health assessments, strategies for obtaining the data--including community involvement with providing the data--that ATSDR evaluates in public health assessments, community involvement with ATSDR's design of public health assessments, the conduct of health studies, the distribution of materials to health professionals and medical centers, financial and technical assistance to community groups and individuals and non-profit groups, and Indian health provisions. Provides funding for the ATSDR activities out of the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Jointly referred to three committees: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means. Cleared for full committee, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute,
by House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee of Transportation Committee, 3/11/98.
HR 2750 Barcia (D-MI),
10/28/97
Superfund Cleanup Acceleration and Liability Equity Act ("SCALE"). "A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Modifies CERCLA with regard to the following provisions related to ATSDR: Hazard Ranking System; the formation of a Community Advisory Group that "shall provide information and views to. . . as appropriate . . . [ATSDR]" (and other agencies and entities); performing a "health assessment or related health activity . . . at a minimum, for each facility listed or proposed for listing on the National Priorities List"; strategies for collecting site-related data; ATSDR's distribution of educational materials to the public and to at-risk populations; the toxicological profiles ATSDR prepares; health studies ATSDR prepares; grants, contracts, and community assistance activities; and Indian health provisions. Jointly referred to the following two committees, 10/28/97: Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure.
HR 3000 Oxley (R-OH), 11/9/97 Superfund Reform Act; Land Recycling Act of 1997. "A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Affects ATSDR authorities with respect to conducting public health assessments, including prioritization of health assessments for different sites and community involvement in health assessments; performing health studies; distributing health education information; establishing an external peer review committee; responding to the recommendations of States and Indian tribes; establishing community assistance groups; and prioritizing sites based on their threat to public health (for purposes in addition to conducting public health assessments). Jointly referred to the following three committees: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means. Public hearing held by House Finance and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee of the Commerce Committee, 3/26/98.
HR 3020 Stokes (D-OH), 11/9/97 Brownfields Reclamation Act of 1997 "A bill to establish a program, primarily through the States and municipalities, and their agents, to facilitate the environmental assessment, cleanup, and reuse of abandoned or underutilized, potentially contaminated properties not on, or proposed for inclusion on, the National Priorities List." Mandates that ATSDR "provide technical assistance for public health assessments to States and tribes, local municipalities, other governmental entities, and nongovernmental organizations engaged in designing and implementing State voluntary cleanup programs, especially States receiving grant funds . . ." Jointly referred to three committees, 11/9/97: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means.
HR 3262 Pallone (D-NJ),
2/25/98
Children's Protection and Community Cleanup Act of 1998 "A bill to reauthorize the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Provisions of CERCLA that would be amended related to ATSDR include those regarding Community Advisory Groups; public health assessments--including that the bill allows for other kinds of health activities to be performed in lieu of health assessments in some cases; data collection/ community involvement in the designing of health assessments; communities'/citizens' and medical professionals' health education; and toxicological profiles. The bill also requires ATSDR to "establish and maintain an inventory of available exposure or tolerance limits for [certain] hazardous substances." Other provisions related to ATSDR that would be amended by the bill include those concerning health studies--the results of health assessments or other health activities or other information would be the basis for ATSDR deciding to conduct health studies; concerning grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements between ATSDR and other entities; concerning community assistance activities; concerning funding for [certain] environmental health clinics and health services; and concerning ATSDR or EPA explaining why they have not, when they have not [at least in certain circumstances], followed the recommendations of States or Indian tribes. The bill adds a section to CERCLA regarding children's environmental health, including provisions related to ATSDR. A total of $150 million per fiscal year for each year 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 would be provided specifically to ATSDR under this bill. Jointly referred to three committees, 2/25/98: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means.
HR 3595 Manton (D-NY), 3/30/98 Superfund Improvement Act of 1998 "A bill To reauthorize the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Joint referral to three committees, 3/30/98: Committee on Commerce, Ways and Means, and Transportation and Infrastructure.
HR 3791 Allen (D-ME), 5/5/98 Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1998 A bill "To amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements concerning the operation of fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units, commercial and industrial boiler units, solid waste incineration units, medical waste incinerators, hazardous waste combustors, chlor-alkali plants, and Portland cement plants to reduce emissions of mercury to the environment and for other purposes." Bill would establish an advisory committee, of which at least one member would be a representative of ATSDR, "to evaluate and prepare a report on the progress made . . . to implement and comply with the mercury-related amendments to the Clean Air Act" made by this bill. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, 5/5/98; Companion/similar bill S. 1915.
HR 3946 Lantos (D-CA), 5/22/98 ICCVAM Authorization Act of 1998 A bill "To establish, wherever feasible, guidelines, recommendations, and regulations that promote the regulatory acceptance of new and revised toxicological tests that protect human and animal health and the environment while reducing, refining, or replacing animal tests and ensuring human safety and product effectiveness." Bill would establish an Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM), and would mandate that a representative of ATSDR, amongst a number of other agencies, departments, and other federal bodies, be a member of the committee. Referred to the Committee on Commerce, 5/22/98.

S 8 Smith, Robert (R-NH), 1/21/97 Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act of 1997; Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act of 1998 "A bill to reauthorize and amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1980, and for other purposes." Reported out of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, with "an amendment in the nature of a substitute," 3/26/98; actual report was not filed until 5/19/98: S.Rpt. 105-192.
S 453 Torricelli (D-NJ),
3/17/97
Michael Gillick Childhood Cancer Research Act "A bill to study the high rate of cancer among children in Dover Township, New Jersey, and for other purposes . . . The Administrator of [ATSDR] shall construct dose-reconstruction modeling and an epidemiological study of childhood cancer in Dover Township, New Jersey." Referred to Committee on Labor and Human Resources, 3/17/97; Companion/similar bill to HR 1080.
S 599 Boxer (D-CA),
4/16/97
Children's Environmental Protection Act "A bill to protect children and other vulnerable subpopulations from exposure to certain environmental pollutants, and for other purposes . . . scientific research opportunities should be identified by the [EPA], the Department of Health and Human Services (including [NIEHS] and [ATSDR]), NIH, and other Federal agencies, to study the short-term and long-term health effects of cumulative, simultaneous, and synergistic exposures of children and other vulnerable subpopulations to environmental pollutants." Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 4/16/97; Companion/similar bill H.R. 2451.
S 830 Jeffords (R-VT), 6/5/97 Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997 "A Bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to facilitate the development and approval of new drugs and biological products, and for other purposes." Bill mandates that ATSDR be one of the entities consulted in a FDA study of mercury compounds in drugs and food. Became Public Law No. 105-115 (111 Stat. 2296), 11/21/97; Companion/similar bills H.R. 1411, H.R. 1710, and H.R. 2469. In the House, H.R. 1411 was incorporated into this bill, 10/07/97.
S 1034 Bond (R-MO), 7/17/97 Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 "An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes . . . That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, $68,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of SARA . . ." Companion bill H.R. 2158 was signed into law, Public Law 105-65, 10/27/97.
S 1317 Lautenberg (D-NJ), 10/24/97 Environmental Health Protection Act of 1997 "A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to expand the opportunity for health protection for citizens affected by hazardous waste sites." Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 10/24/97.
S 1497 Lautenberg (D-NJ), 11/9/97 Equity and Public Involvement in Superfund Act of 1997 "A bill to release contributors of ordinary trash and minor amounts of hazardous substances from litigation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, and for other purposes." Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 11/9/97.
S 1915 Leahy (D-VT), 4/2/98 Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1998" "A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements concerning the operation of fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units, commercial and industrial boiler units, solid waste incineration units, medical waste incinerators, hazardous waste combustors, chlor-alkali plants,
and Portland cement plants to reduce emissions of mercury to the environment, and for other purposes."
Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 4/2/98; Companion/similar bill: H.R. 3791.
S. 2168 Bond (R-MO), 6/12/98 Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1998 "An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes." Bill mentions ATSDR in the following text: "Provided further, That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, $74,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4) and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of SARA . . . Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 1998." Passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee (also see Senate Report 105-216); placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar, 6/12/98.

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Bill Number	Sponsor, Date Introduced	Title	Relevance to ATSDR	Status
HR 1080	Saxton (R-NJ), 3/13/97	Michael Gillick Childhood Cancer Research Act	"A bill to study the high rate of cancer among children in Dover Township, New Jersey, and for other purposes." Mandates that ATSDR conduct dose-reconstruction modeling and an epidemiological study of childhood cancer in Dover Township, New Jersey.	Referred to Commerce Committee, 3/13/97, Companion Bill, S. 453.
HR 1411	Burr (R-NC), 4/23/97	Drug and Biological Products Modernization Act of 1997	"A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the regulation of food, drugs, cosmetics, and devices, and for other purposes." The Secretary of Health and Human Services "shall consult with the Administrator of ATSDR" (and consult with other agencies) in conducting a study of mercury compounds in drugs and food.	Referred to Commerce Committee; Incorporated into S. 830, 10/7/97, and S. 830 was approved 11/21/97; H.R. 1411 was tabled (by voice vote) in House 10/7/97.
HR 2102	Talent (R-MO), 6/26/97	Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, Amendment	"A bill to amend the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984 to repeal the sunset of the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Ombudsman, and for other purposes." Mandates that the Office of Ombudsman issue a report to Congress "on the status of health and environmental concerns addressed by Ombudsman cases," including "recommendations for improvements to the hazardous waste programs for which the [EPA] and to the extent appropriate, [ATSDR] are responsible."	Referred to Commerce Committee, 6/26/97.
HR 2158	Lewis, Jerry (R-CA), 7/11/97	Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998	"A bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes." Provides "That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, $74,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to [ATSDR] to carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of SARA: . . . Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for [ATSDR] to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 1998."	Approved 10/27/97: Public Law 105-65; S. 1034, as amended, had been incorporated into this bill, 7/22/97; Conference Committee Report that corresponds to H.R. 2158 is H.Rpt. 105-297.
HR 2451	Moran, Jim (D-VA), 9/10/97	Children's Environmental Protection Act	"A bill to protect children and other vulnerable subpopulations from exposure to certain environmental pollutants, and for other purposes." Mandates that scientific research opportunities be identified by the EPA, DHHS (including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and ATSDR), the National Institutes of Health, and other Federal agencies, "to study the short-term and long-term health effects of cumulative, simultaneous, and synergistic exposures of children and other vulnerable subpopulations to environmental pollutants."	Referred to Commerce Committee, 9/10/97; Companion/similar bill, S. 599.
HR 2727	Boehlert (R-NY), 10/23/97	Superfund Acceleration, Fairness, and Efficiency Act, "SAFE."	"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to reauthorize and reform the Superfund program, and for other purposes." Mandates that the President provide the opportunity for the establishment of a Community Advisory Group, and this group "shall provide information and views to. . . as appropriate . . . [ATSDR]" (and other agencies and entities); amends the human health provisions of CERCLA, modifying, taking from, and/or adding to ATSDR's authorities with regard to toxicological profiles, preliminary and full public health assessments, strategies for obtaining the data--including community involvement with providing the data--that ATSDR evaluates in public health assessments, community involvement with ATSDR's design of public health assessments, the conduct of health studies, the distribution of materials to health professionals and medical centers, financial and technical assistance to community groups and individuals and non-profit groups, and Indian health provisions. Provides funding for the ATSDR activities out of the Hazardous Substance Superfund.	Jointly referred to three committees: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means. Cleared for full committee, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, by House Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee of Transportation Committee, 3/11/98.
HR 2750	Barcia (D-MI), 10/28/97	Superfund Cleanup Acceleration and Liability Equity Act ("SCALE").	"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Modifies CERCLA with regard to the following provisions related to ATSDR: Hazard Ranking System; the formation of a Community Advisory Group that "shall provide information and views to. . . as appropriate . . . [ATSDR]" (and other agencies and entities); performing a "health assessment or related health activity . . . at a minimum, for each facility listed or proposed for listing on the National Priorities List"; strategies for collecting site-related data; ATSDR's distribution of educational materials to the public and to at-risk populations; the toxicological profiles ATSDR prepares; health studies ATSDR prepares; grants, contracts, and community assistance activities; and Indian health provisions.	Jointly referred to the following two committees, 10/28/97: Commerce, and Transportation and Infrastructure.
HR 3000	Oxley (R-OH), 11/9/97	Superfund Reform Act; Land Recycling Act of 1997.	"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Affects ATSDR authorities with respect to conducting public health assessments, including prioritization of health assessments for different sites and community involvement in health assessments; performing health studies; distributing health education information; establishing an external peer review committee; responding to the recommendations of States and Indian tribes; establishing community assistance groups; and prioritizing sites based on their threat to public health (for purposes in addition to conducting public health assessments).	Jointly referred to the following three committees: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means. Public hearing held by House Finance and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee of the Commerce Committee, 3/26/98.
HR 3020	Stokes (D-OH), 11/9/97	Brownfields Reclamation Act of 1997	"A bill to establish a program, primarily through the States and municipalities, and their agents, to facilitate the environmental assessment, cleanup, and reuse of abandoned or underutilized, potentially contaminated properties not on, or proposed for inclusion on, the National Priorities List." Mandates that ATSDR "provide technical assistance for public health assessments to States and tribes, local municipalities, other governmental entities, and nongovernmental organizations engaged in designing and implementing State voluntary cleanup programs, especially States receiving grant funds . . ."	Jointly referred to three committees, 11/9/97: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means.
HR 3262	Pallone (D-NJ), 2/25/98	Children's Protection and Community Cleanup Act of 1998	"A bill to reauthorize the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980." Provisions of CERCLA that would be amended related to ATSDR include those regarding Community Advisory Groups; public health assessments--including that the bill allows for other kinds of health activities to be performed in lieu of health assessments in some cases; data collection/ community involvement in the designing of health assessments; communities'/citizens' and medical professionals' health education; and toxicological profiles. The bill also requires ATSDR to "establish and maintain an inventory of available exposure or tolerance limits for [certain] hazardous substances." Other provisions related to ATSDR that would be amended by the bill include those concerning health studies--the results of health assessments or other health activities or other information would be the basis for ATSDR deciding to conduct health studies; concerning grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements between ATSDR and other entities; concerning community assistance activities; concerning funding for [certain] environmental health clinics and health services; and concerning ATSDR or EPA explaining why they have not, when they have not [at least in certain circumstances], followed the recommendations of States or Indian tribes. The bill adds a section to CERCLA regarding children's environmental health, including provisions related to ATSDR. A total of $150 million per fiscal year for each year 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 would be provided specifically to ATSDR under this bill.	Jointly referred to three committees, 2/25/98: Commerce, Transportation and Infrastructure, and Ways and Means.
HR 3595	Manton (D-NY), 3/30/98	Superfund Improvement Act of 1998	"A bill To reauthorize the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980."	Joint referral to three committees, 3/30/98: Committee on Commerce, Ways and Means, and Transportation and Infrastructure.
HR 3791	Allen (D-ME), 5/5/98	Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1998	A bill "To amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements concerning the operation of fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units, commercial and industrial boiler units, solid waste incineration units, medical waste incinerators, hazardous waste combustors, chlor-alkali plants, and Portland cement plants to reduce emissions of mercury to the environment and for other purposes." Bill would establish an advisory committee, of which at least one member would be a representative of ATSDR, "to evaluate and prepare a report on the progress made . . . to implement and comply with the mercury-related amendments to the Clean Air Act" made by this bill.	Referred to the Committee on Commerce, 5/5/98; Companion/similar bill S. 1915.
HR 3946	Lantos (D-CA), 5/22/98	ICCVAM Authorization Act of 1998	A bill "To establish, wherever feasible, guidelines, recommendations, and regulations that promote the regulatory acceptance of new and revised toxicological tests that protect human and animal health and the environment while reducing, refining, or replacing animal tests and ensuring human safety and product effectiveness." Bill would establish an Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM), and would mandate that a representative of ATSDR, amongst a number of other agencies, departments, and other federal bodies, be a member of the committee.	Referred to the Committee on Commerce, 5/22/98.

S 8	Smith, Robert (R-NH), 1/21/97	Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act of 1997; Superfund Cleanup Acceleration Act of 1998	"A bill to reauthorize and amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1980, and for other purposes."	Reported out of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, with "an amendment in the nature of a substitute," 3/26/98; actual report was not filed until 5/19/98: S.Rpt. 105-192.
S 453	Torricelli (D-NJ), 3/17/97	Michael Gillick Childhood Cancer Research Act	"A bill to study the high rate of cancer among children in Dover Township, New Jersey, and for other purposes . . . The Administrator of [ATSDR] shall construct dose-reconstruction modeling and an epidemiological study of childhood cancer in Dover Township, New Jersey."	Referred to Committee on Labor and Human Resources, 3/17/97; Companion/similar bill to HR 1080.
S 599	Boxer (D-CA), 4/16/97	Children's Environmental Protection Act	"A bill to protect children and other vulnerable subpopulations from exposure to certain environmental pollutants, and for other purposes . . . scientific research opportunities should be identified by the [EPA], the Department of Health and Human Services (including [NIEHS] and [ATSDR]), NIH, and other Federal agencies, to study the short-term and long-term health effects of cumulative, simultaneous, and synergistic exposures of children and other vulnerable subpopulations to environmental pollutants."	Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 4/16/97; Companion/similar bill H.R. 2451.
S 830	Jeffords (R-VT), 6/5/97	Food and Drug Modernization Act of 1997	"A Bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act to facilitate the development and approval of new drugs and biological products, and for other purposes." Bill mandates that ATSDR be one of the entities consulted in a FDA study of mercury compounds in drugs and food.	Became Public Law No. 105-115 (111 Stat. 2296), 11/21/97; Companion/similar bills H.R. 1411, H.R. 1710, and H.R. 2469. In the House, H.R. 1411 was incorporated into this bill, 10/07/97.
S 1034	Bond (R-MO), 7/17/97	Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998	"An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, and for other purposes . . . That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, $68,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of SARA . . ."	Companion bill H.R. 2158 was signed into law, Public Law 105-65, 10/27/97.
S 1317	Lautenberg (D-NJ), 10/24/97	Environmental Health Protection Act of 1997	"A bill to amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 to expand the opportunity for health protection for citizens affected by hazardous waste sites."	Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 10/24/97.
S 1497	Lautenberg (D-NJ), 11/9/97	Equity and Public Involvement in Superfund Act of 1997	"A bill to release contributors of ordinary trash and minor amounts of hazardous substances from litigation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, and for other purposes."	Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 11/9/97.
S 1915	Leahy (D-VT), 4/2/98	Omnibus Mercury Emissions Reduction Act of 1998"	"A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to establish requirements concerning the operation of fossil fuel-fired electric utility steam generating units, commercial and industrial boiler units, solid waste incineration units, medical waste incinerators, hazardous waste combustors, chlor-alkali plants, and Portland cement plants to reduce emissions of mercury to the environment, and for other purposes."	Referred to Committee on Environment and Public Works, 4/2/98; Companion/similar bill: H.R. 3791.
S. 2168	Bond (R-MO), 6/12/98	Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act of 1998	"An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes." Bill mentions ATSDR in the following text: "Provided further, That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provision of law, $74,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to carry out activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4) and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of SARA . . . Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 1998."	Passed by the Senate Appropriations Committee (also see Senate Report 105-216); placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar, 6/12/98.

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