[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2221 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2221

   To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take no 
    further action on a proposed regulation relating to the use of 
             chlorofluorocarbons in metered-dose inhalers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 22, 1997

 Mr. Stearns (for himself and Mr. Smith of New Jersey) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take no 
    further action on a proposed regulation relating to the use of 
             chlorofluorocarbons in metered-dose inhalers.

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

SECTION 1. CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS IN METERED-DOSE INHALERS.

    The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take no action to 
promulgate a final rule on the basis of the proposed regulation of the 
Food and Drug Administration (62 Fed. Reg. 10242) to designate the use 
of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in metered-dose inhalers (MDI) as 
nonessential so as to make MDI's which use CFC an adulterated device. 
The Secretary shall focus efforts on implementing existing Montreal 
Protocol decisions that will facilitate a transition to CFC-free by the 
year 2005.
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