[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1311 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1311

    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize a 
                estrogenic substances screening program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 1997

Mr. Stupak (for himself, Mrs. Lowey, and Mr. Brown of Ohio) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of 
                        the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize a 
                estrogenic substances screening program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title III of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1311-1330) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 321. ESTROGENIC SUBSTANCES SCREENING PROGRAM.

    ``In addition to the substances referred to in section 408(p)(3)(B) 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 346a(p)(3)(B)) 
or in section 1457 of the title XIV of the Public Health Service Act 
(the Safe Drinking Water Act)(42 U.S.C. 300j-17), the Administrator may 
provide for testing under the screening program authorized by section 
408(p) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, in accordance with 
the provisions of section 408(p) of such Act, of any other substance 
that may be found in discharges of pollutants into navigable waters if 
the Administrator determines that a substantial population may be 
exposed to such substance.''.
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