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SENATE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, Chemistry is essential to human life, through 
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applications such as agriculture, the protection of public 
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health, and innovative technologies that save energy and 
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improve quality of life; and

 
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    WHEREAS, The products of chemistry can pose risks that, if 
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improperly controlled or regulated, can threaten human health 
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or the environment; and

 
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    WHEREAS, The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976 
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was enacted by Congress to give the United States Environmental 
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Protection Agency the authority to require testing and to 
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impose restrictions on industrial chemicals produced or 
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imported into the United States; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Under its TSCA authority the U.S. EPA has required 
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testing of chemicals that may pose a risk to the environment or 
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to human-health, requires reporting of substantial risks to 
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human health and the environment from chemicals, and can ban 
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the manufacture and import of those chemicals that pose such 
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risks; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Advances in technology now allow the detection of 
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chemicals at very low levels in the environment and the human 
 


 






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body, at levels that until recently were unable to be detected; 
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and

 
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    WHEREAS, Analytical testing has become so sophisticated 
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that a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council 
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Committee on Human Biomonitoring has declared that tremendous 
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challenges surround the use of biomonitoring information 
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because the ability to detect chemicals in the body far exceeds 
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the ability to determine what such data means to public health; 
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and

 
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    WHEREAS, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has cautioned 
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that the mere presence of a chemical in the human body is not 
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an indication that the chemical causes disease; that toxicity 
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of a chemical is related to its dose or concentration in 
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addition to a person's individual susceptibility; and

 
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    WHEREAS, Regulations on the production and import of 
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chemicals is best addressed at the federal level to avoid 
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disruptions in trade and commerce; and

 

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    WHEREAS, TSCA provides U.S. EPA the authority and 
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flexibility to adapt regulatory controls on chemicals as the 
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science of detection and risk evolves; therefore, be it

 
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    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL 
 


 






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ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that the U.S. EPA and the 
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Congress of the United States ensure that the Toxic Substances 
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Control Act of 1976 provides the necessary statutory and 
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regulatory controls necessary to protect human health and the 
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environment from the risks of industrial chemicals; and be it 
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further

 
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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, 
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the Minority Leader of the United States Senate, the Speaker of 
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the United States House of Representatives, the Minority Leader 
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of the United States House of Representatives, and to each 
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member of the Illinois Congressional delegation.