Environment & Energy Committee

Filed: 3/14/2007

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 680

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 680 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
5 Biomonitoring Safety Net Act.
 
6     Section 5. Findings and purposes.
7     (a) The General Assembly finds all of the following:
8         (1) An estimated 100,000 chemicals are registered for
9     use today in the United States. Another 2,000 chemicals are
10     added each year.
11         (2) Some toxicological screening data exists for only
12     7% to 10% of these chemicals. More than 90% of these
13     chemicals have never been tested for their effects on human
14     health. Large numbers of these chemicals are found in
15     cosmetics, personal care products, pesticides, food dyes,
16     cleaning products, fuels, and plastics.

 

 

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1         (3) As a result, people are exposed to chemicals daily.
2     Many of these chemicals persist in the environment or
3     accumulate and remain in body fat and have been shown to be
4     toxic.
5         (4) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
6     documented the presence of 148 environmental chemicals in
7     the blood and urine of Americans of all ages and races.
8     (b) The purposes of this Act are as follows:
9         (1) for the University of Illinois at Chicago, the
10     Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental
11     Safety and Health, to conduct an environmental contaminant
12     biomonitoring feasibility study that proposes the best way
13     to monitor the presence and concentration of designated
14     chemicals in the bodies of the people of this State;
15         (2) to produce biomonitoring studies that provide data
16     helping scientists, researchers, public health personnel,
17     and community members explore linkages between chemical
18     exposure and health concerns; and
19         (3) to support Illinois public health by establishing
20     trends in chemical exposures, validating modeling and
21     survey methods, supporting epidemiological studies,
22     identifying highly exposed communities, addressing the
23     data gaps between chemical exposures and specific health
24     outcomes, informing health responses to unanticipated
25     emergency exposures, assessing the effectiveness of
26     current regulations, and setting priorities for reform.
 

 

 

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1     Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
2     "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection
3 Agency.
4     "Department" means the Department of Public Health.
5     "Program" means the Environmental Contaminant
6 Biomonitoring Program.
 
7     Section 15. Scientific Guidance Panel. In implementing the
8 Program, the Department and the Agency shall establish a
9 Scientific Guidance Panel. The Directors of the Department and
10 the Agency shall appoint the members of the Panel. The Panel
11 shall be composed of 11 members, whose expertise shall
12 encompass the disciplines of public health, epidemiology,
13 biostatistics, environmental medicine, risk analysis, exposure
14 assessment, developmental biology, laboratory sciences,
15 bioethics, maternal and child health with a specialty in
16 breastfeeding, and toxicology. Members shall be appointed for
17 2-year terms. Members may be reappointed for additional terms
18 without limitation. Members shall serve until their successors
19 are appointed and have qualified. Vacancies shall be filled in
20 the same manner as the original appointments, and any member so
21 appointed shall serve during the remainder of the term for
22 which the vacancy occurred. The Panel shall meet, at a minimum,
23 3 times per year. The Agency shall be responsible for staffing
24 and administration of the Panel. Members of the Panel shall be

 

 

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1 reimbursed for travel and other necessary expenses incurred in
2 the performance of their duties under this Act, but shall not
3 receive a salary or compensation.
4     The Panel shall provide guidance to the University of
5 Illinois at Chicago, the Great Lakes Center for Occupational
6 and Environmental Safety and Health, and make recommendations
7 regarding the design and implementation of the feasibility
8 study, including specific recommendations for chemicals that
9 are priorities for biomonitoring. The Panel shall recommend
10 priority chemicals for inclusion in the Program using all of
11 the following criteria:
12         (1) The degree of potential exposure to the public or
13     specific subgroups, including, but not limited to, certain
14     occupations.
15         (2) The likelihood of a chemical being a carcinogen or
16     toxicant based on peer-reviewed health data, its chemical
17     structure, or the toxicology of chemically related
18     compounds.
19         (3) The limits of laboratory detection for the
20     chemical, including the ability to detect the chemical at
21     levels low enough to be expected in the general population.
22         (4) Any other criteria the Panel deems significant.
23     The Panel may recommend additional designated chemicals
24 not included in the National Report on Human Exposure to
25 Environmental Chemicals for inclusion in the Program using all
26 of the following criteria:

 

 

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1         (A) Exposure or potential exposure to the public or
2     specific subgroups.
3         (B) The known or suspected health effects resulting
4     from some level of exposure based on peer-reviewed
5     scientific studies.
6         (C) The need to assess the efficacy of public health
7     actions to reduce exposure to a chemical.
 
8     Section 20. Feasibility study report. Two years after the
9 effective date of this Act, the University of Illinois at
10 Chicago, the Great Lakes Center for Occupational and
11 Environmental Safety and Health, shall submit a report to the
12 Governor and the General Assembly containing findings of the
13 feasibility study and shall include in the report recommended
14 activities and estimated costs of establishing an Illinois
15 Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program.".