Full Text of HR1067 095th General Assembly
HR1067 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has | 3 |
| declined to release a report about health problems near | 4 |
| contaminated sites around the Great Lakes; and
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| WHEREAS, The group that commissioned the report, the | 6 |
| International Joint Commission, has called for its release, as | 7 |
| have 2 congressional committees and individuals associated | 8 |
| with the authorship and review of the report; and
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| WHEREAS, The report's author, Christopher De Rosa, was | 10 |
| demoted from his position as the director of the division of | 11 |
| toxicology and environmental medicine at the Agency for Toxic | 12 |
| Substances and Disease Registry, a unit of the Centers for | 13 |
| Disease Control and Prevention, after raising health questions | 14 |
| in the study; and
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| WHEREAS, The report was drafted over several years and | 16 |
| points out severe health issues within a few miles of 25 known | 17 |
| areas of concern around the lakes; and
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| WHEREAS, Of the 108 hazardous waste sites in those areas, | 19 |
| 71 had a potential human health impact, according to a draft of | 20 |
| the report made available by the Center for Public Integrity; | 21 |
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| WHEREAS, The report calls for further investifation of | 2 |
| adverse health effects in the areas with the most overlap | 3 |
| between health hazards, health problems, and at-risk | 4 |
| populations, including reproductive-age women, the elderly, | 5 |
| and children younger than 6 years old; and
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| WHEREAS, The study, entitled "Public Health Implications | 7 |
| of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great Lakes | 8 |
| Areas of Concern" began in 2001 and was completed in July 2007 | 9 |
| after several rounds of scientific peer review; and
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| WHEREAS, Senior scientists at the Centers for Disease | 11 |
| Control and Prevention blocked the report's publication while | 12 |
| they review it because of questions concerning the underlying | 13 |
| data raised a few weeks before its intended release to the | 14 |
| public; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 |
| urge the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to release | 18 |
| its report about health problems near contaminated sites around | 19 |
| the Great Lakes to the public; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the | 21 |
| congressional delegation from Illinois and Dr. Julie Louise |
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| Gerberding, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and | 2 |
| Prevention.
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