[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3850 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3850

 To provide for a study of human health risks associated with National 
   Weather Service doppler radar installations, and to prohibit the 
  operation of such an installation in Ojai, California, unless such 
                study finds no significant health risk.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 10, 1994

Mr. Gallegly introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
  to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and Energy and 
                                Commerce

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for a study of human health risks associated with National 
   Weather Service doppler radar installations, and to prohibit the 
  operation of such an installation in Ojai, California, unless such 
                study finds no significant health risk.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. STUDY.

    The Secretary of Commerce shall enter into a contract with the 
National Academy of Sciences for the conduct of a study of the human 
health risks to National Weather Service employees and the public 
associated with the operation of doppler radar installations such as 
the National Weather Service's WSR-88D units. Such study shall focus on 
the unit constructed on Sulphur Mountain in Ojai, California, and shall 
examine the effect of radiation emitted by such installations on 
National Weather Service employees and on persons living in the 
vicinity of, or otherwise required to be in the vicinity of, the 
installation. The Secretary of Commerce shall transmit the results of 
such study to the Congress within 1 year after the date of enactment of 
this Act.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION.

    No Federal funds may be expended to operate the National Weather 
Service doppler radar installation on Sulphur Mountain in Ojai, 
California, unless the study carried out under section 1 finds that 
there is no significant health risk to National Weather Service 
employees or the public associated with the operation of such an 
installation.

                                 <all>