[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1712 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1712

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 1999

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 an 
                estrogenic substances screening program.

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

SECTION 1. ESTROGENIC SUBSTANCES SCREENING PROGRAM.

    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 
(commonly known as 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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