[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2408 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2408

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
    prescribe a rule that prohibits the importation for disposal of 
polychlorinated biphenyls at concentrations of 50 parts per million or 
                                greater.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1999

  Ms. Rivers introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
    prescribe a rule that prohibits the importation for disposal of 
polychlorinated biphenyls at concentrations of 50 parts per million or 
                                greater.

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

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS FOR 
              DISPOSAL.

    Section 6(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 
2605(e)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(6)(A) The Administrator shall promulgate rules to prohibit the 
importation into the United States for disposal of polychlorinated 
biphenyls, or polychlorinated biphenyl items, at concentrations of 50 
parts per million or greater.
    ``(B)(i) The Administrator may use the authority under paragraph 
(3)(B) to accept and consider petitions to exempt from the prohibition 
prescribed under subparagraph (A) of this paragraph specific 
transboundary shipments into the United States for disposal of 
polychlorinated biphenyls, or polychlorinated biphenyl items, at 
concentrations of 50 parts per million or greater.
    ``(ii) In any case in which the Administrator grants an exemption 
pursuant to such a petition, the Administrator shall submit to Congress 
a report containing notice of the exemption and the reasons for the 
exemption. The exemption may not take effect until the expiration of 
the 60-day period beginning on the date the report is received by 
Congress.''.
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