Full Text of SR0679 95th General Assembly
SR0679 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Chemistry is essential to human life, through | 3 |
| applications such as agriculture, the protection of public | 4 |
| health, and innovative technologies that save energy and | 5 |
| improve quality of life; and
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| WHEREAS, The products of chemistry can pose risks that, if | 7 |
| improperly controlled or regulated, can threaten human health | 8 |
| or the environment; and
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| WHEREAS, The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976 | 10 |
| was enacted by Congress to give the United States Environmental | 11 |
| Protection Agency the authority to require testing and to | 12 |
| impose restrictions on industrial chemicals produced or | 13 |
| imported into the United States; and
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| WHEREAS, Under its TSCA authority the U.S. EPA has required | 15 |
| testing of chemicals that may pose a risk to the environment or | 16 |
| to human-health, requires reporting of substantial risks to | 17 |
| human health and the environment from chemicals, and can ban | 18 |
| the manufacture and import of those chemicals that pose such | 19 |
| risks; and
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| WHEREAS, Advances in technology now allow the detection of | 21 |
| 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; | 2 |
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| WHEREAS, Analytical testing has become so sophisticated | 4 |
| that a National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council | 5 |
| Committee on Human Biomonitoring has declared that tremendous | 6 |
| challenges surround the use of biomonitoring information | 7 |
| because the ability to detect chemicals in the body far exceeds | 8 |
| the ability to determine what such data means to public health; | 9 |
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| WHEREAS, The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has cautioned | 11 |
| that the mere presence of a chemical in the human body is not | 12 |
| an indication that the chemical causes disease; that toxicity | 13 |
| of a chemical is related to its dose or concentration in | 14 |
| addition to a person's individual susceptibility; and
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| WHEREAS, Regulations on the production and import of | 16 |
| chemicals is best addressed at the federal level to avoid | 17 |
| disruptions in trade and commerce; and
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| WHEREAS, TSCA provides U.S. EPA the authority and | 19 |
| flexibility to adapt regulatory controls on chemicals as the | 20 |
| 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 | 2 |
| Congress of the United States ensure that the Toxic Substances | 3 |
| Control Act of 1976 provides the necessary statutory and | 4 |
| regulatory controls necessary to protect human health and the | 5 |
| environment from the risks of industrial chemicals; and be it | 6 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 |
| presented to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, | 9 |
| the Minority Leader of the United States Senate, the Speaker of | 10 |
| the United States House of Representatives, the Minority Leader | 11 |
| of the United States House of Representatives, and to each | 12 |
| member of the Illinois Congressional delegation.
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