[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 141 (Monday, October 3, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


[Congressional Record: October 3, 1994]
From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

 
                         INDOOR AIR ACT OF 1994

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the 
bill (H.R. 2919) to amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize a 
national program to reduce the threat to human health posed by exposure 
to contaminants in the air indoors, as amended.
  The Clerk read as follows:

                               H.R. 2919

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       This Act may be cited as the ``Indoor Air Act of 1994''.

     SEC. 2. COORDINATION.

       The Administrator shall consult and coordinate with the 
     Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of 
     the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 
     the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and other appropriate 
     agencies in implementing this Act.

     SEC. 3. GUIDELINES FOR IDENTIFYING, REDUCING, AND PREVENTING 
                   SIGNIFICANT INDOOR AIR HEALTH RISKS.

       (a) List.--Not later than 4 years after the enactment of 
     this Act, the Administrator shall, after notice and 
     opportunity of at least 90 days for public comment, publish a 
     list of common significant indoor air health risks. In 
     identifying a common significant indoor air health risk, the 
     Administrator shall use the best reasonably available 
     scientific data.
       (b) Guidelines.--Concurrently with the listing of each 
     common significant indoor air health risk under subsection 
     (a), the Administrator shall, after notice and opportunity of 
     at least 90 days for public comment, publish voluntary 
     guidelines for identifying, reducing, and preventing the 
     common significant indoor air health risk. Such guidelines 
     may include information and a range of recommendations for 
     operation and maintenance of existing buildings, the design 
     and construction of new buildings, building renovation, and 
     such other activities as necessary to identify and reduce or 
     prevent the common significant indoor air health risks listed 
     under subsection (a). The guidelines shall achieve 
     significant risk reduction, be technologically achievable and 
     readily implementable, take into consideration safety, 
     energy, and other relevant factors, include an assessment of 
     their effectiveness and cost, and be based on available 
     research and expertise and the study priorities established 
     by the Administrator pursuant to subsection (e).
       (c) Review and Revision.--The Administrator shall 
     periodically review and, as necessary, after notice and 
     opportunity of at least 90 days for public comment, revise 
     the list of common significant indoor air health risks and 
     the guidelines published under this section. At a minimum, a 
     review and revision shall be completed not later than 4 years 
     after the initial publication of the list and guidelines.
       (d) Consistency with Indoor Air Regulations of Other 
     Federal Agencies.--The Administrator shall, after 
     consultation with the Secretary of Labor, insure that the 
     guidelines under this section are fully consistent with any 
     Federal workplace regulations addressing indoor air quality 
     risks. The guidelines may recommend such additional voluntary 
     actions as may be necessary to protect persons other than 
     workers covered by such regulations from common significant 
     indoor air health risks listed under subsection (a). The 
     Administrator shall, after consultation with the Secretary of 
     Energy, insure that the guidelines under this section are 
     consistent with applicable energy conservation and efficiency 
     laws and regulations administered by the Secretary.
       (e) Priority for Indoor Air Health Studies.--The 
     Administrator shall, subject to the availability of 
     appropriations and using existing authorities, give priority 
     to conducting and providing financial or other assistance to 
     studies concerning indoor air quality, including the 
     following:
       (1) Human exposure to indoor air pollutants, including 
     baseline levels of exposure in various types of buildings.
       (2) The sources of indoor air pollutants.
       (3) The effects on human health of indoor air pollutants, 
     including additive, cumulative, and synergistic effects on 
     the general population and subpopulations particularly at 
     risk.
       (4) Methods for identifying, reducing, and preventing 
     common significant indoor air health risks.

     Appropriate studies, such as those under paragraph (1) and 
     (3), shall be subject to peer review.

     SEC. 4. INDOOR AIR CONTRACTORS.

       (a) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the commencement 
     of fiscal year 1996, and after notice and opportunity of at 
     least 90 days for public comment, the Administrator shall 
     submit a report to Congress on persons operating contractor 
     businesses engaged in the identification, reduction, and 
     prevention of significant indoor air health risks. Such 
     report shall identify the types or classes of contractors 
     regularly engaged in identifying and reducing or preventing 
     significant indoor air health risks and shall determine the 
     need for a program to certify contractors engaged in 1 or 
     more activities relating to the identification and reduction 
     or prevention of significant indoor air health risks, taking 
     into account costs, benefits, the availability of persons 
     with adequate training, experience, and expertise, the funds 
     needed for such a program, and other relevant factors. The 
     report shall also consider whether such a program should be 
     carried out by the Administrator directly or by contract, or 
     by another Federal agency or by State or local government.
       (b) Certification.--(1) Based on the report under 
     subsection (a), not later than 2 years after the report 
     required by subsection (a) is submitted to Congress, and 
     after notice and opportunity of at least 90 days for public 
     comment, the Administrator shall establish a program to 
     provide for the certification of contractors engaged on a 
     regular basis in the identification of common significant 
     indoor air health risks. Based on the report under subsection 
     (a), and after notice and opportunity of at least 90 days for 
     public comment, the Administrator may also establish a 
     program to certify appropriate contractors engaged in the 
     reduction or prevention of common significant indoor air 
     health risks.
       (2) No person may be certified under any program 
     established under paragraph (1) unless, at a minimum--
       (A) such person demonstrates an ability to comply with the 
     guidelines established under section 3; and
       (B) individuals engaged in the identification, reduction, 
     or prevention of common significant indoor air health risks 
     on behalf of such person complete an appropriate course of 
     training, as defined by the Administrator.

     Persons certified under this subsection shall comply with the 
     guidelines under section 3 when engaged in the 
     identification, reduction, or prevention of common 
     significant indoor air health risks.
       (c) Fees.--A reasonable nondiscriminatory annual fee for 
     the certification of persons under this section shall be 
     imposed by the Administrator or by such other agency or 
     contractor that operates the program. The fee shall be 
     periodically established at such level as is necessary to 
     cover all costs of the certification program under this 
     section. Such fees shall be structured such that a person's 
     liability for such fees is reasonably based on the proportion 
     of the program's operating costs that relate to such person, 
     and such person's liability for such fees shall not be based 
     on the income of such person. Such fees, if collected by the 
     Administrator, shall be available, subject to appropriations, 
     to the Administrator to pay for such costs or to reimburse 
     another Federal agency or a State or local government. The 
     collection and use of fees shall be audited by the 
     Administrator.
       (d) Suspension or Revocation.--The Administrator may 
     suspend or revoke any certification issued under this section 
     whenever the Administrator determines, after notice of at 
     least 60 days to such person, that the holder of the 
     certification has violated any requirement of this section or 
     condition of such certification. Any person whose 
     certification is proposed to be suspended or revoked, or 
     whose certification is denied, by the Administrator shall be 
     entitled to an administrative hearing.
       (e) Participation.--Participation in the certification 
     program under this section shall be voluntary.

     SEC. 5. PUBLIC AWARENESS.

       (a) Information.--The Administrator shall publish and 
     disseminate--
       (1) the list of common significant indoor air health risks 
     under section 3,
       (2) the guidelines under section 3 for identifying, 
     reducing, and preventing common significant indoor air health 
     risks, and
       (3) the indoor air health advisories under subsection (b).
       (b) Indoor Air Health Advisories.--The Administrator shall, 
     after notice and opportunity of at least 90 days for public 
     comment, and after review and comment by the Science Advisory 
     Board, publish health advisories addressing the health 
     effects of common significant indoor air health risks. Each 
     health advisory shall, at a minimum--
       (1) describe the adverse human health effects of a common 
     significant indoor air health risk, including the risk to 
     vulnerable subpopulations;
       (2) characterize the causes of the significant indoor air 
     health risk; and
       (3) summarize the guidelines under section 3 for 
     identifying, reducing, and preventing the significant indoor 
     air health risk.

     The Administrator shall publish a health advisory for a 
     common significant indoor air health risk at the same time 
     that the Administrator publishes guidelines for such health 
     risk under section 3.

     SEC. 6. HEALTHY BUILDINGS PROGRAM.

       The Administrator shall, after notice and opportunity of at 
     least 90 days for public comment, develop a voluntary program 
     to provide Federal recognition to buildings that are operated 
     and maintained, taking into consideration all uses of the 
     building, to prevent or minimize common significant indoor 
     air health risks in an exemplary manner while at the same 
     time providing significant energy efficiency benefits and for 
     which there are no outstanding indoor air quality citations 
     by other agencies. Such recognition shall be based on 
     objective, nondiscriminatory criteria.

     SEC. 7. STATE AND LOCAL INDOOR AIR HEALTH GRANTS.

       (a) In General.--The Administrator may provide grants to 
     States and to local governments to develop and implement 
     programs proposed by any such State or local government to 
     identify, reduce , and prevent common significant indoor air 
     health risks.
       (b) Federal Share of Funding.--The Federal share of grants 
     under this section shall not exceed 75 percent of the costs 
     incurred in developing and implementing such programs. Such 
     share shall be based on the availability of funds 
     appropriated annually and shall supplement State funds for 
     this purpose. The Administrator, in making such grants, shall 
     seek to treat all States equitably.

     SEC. 8. BUILDING HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROGRAM.

       (a) Authority.--The Director of the National Institute for 
     Occupational Safety and Health shall implement a Building 
     Assessment Program to provide assistance and guidance to 
     employers and employees on measures to reduce significant 
     indoor air health risks.
       (b) Selection of Buildings for Assessment.--An assessment 
     may be initiated in response to a request from any employer 
     or employee (including an authorized representative of the 
     employee) submitted to the Director for a building 
     assessment. In making such voluntary assessment, the Director 
     shall have the authority, pursuant to such request, to 
     conduct on-site assessments of individual buildings, 
     including Federal, State, and municipal buildings. In 
     selecting a building for assessment pursuant to such request, 
     the Director shall consider (1) the seriousness and extent of 
     significant indoor air health risks, and (2) the potential 
     for the building assessment to expand knowledge of building 
     assessment methods and response measures.
       (c) Assessment Elements.--Assessments shall include, at a 
     minimum, identification of (1) probable significant indoor 
     air health risks, (2) probable sources and health effects of 
     identified significant indoor air health risks, and (3) in 
     cases where a probable health risk has been identified, 
     measures for eliminating, controlling, or reducing 
     significant indoor air health risks. If there are applicable 
     guidelines under section 3, the measures included in the 
     assessment shall be consistent with the guidelines, unless 
     the Director adequately explains otherwise.
       (d) Reports.--The Director shall prepare and provide a 
     report to the employer, employees (and the authorized 
     representative of the employees), and the building owner or 
     representative as promptly as possible.

     SEC. 9. DISCLAIMER.

       Nothing in this Act shall affect the Administrator's 
     authority under other provisions of law to conduct research, 
     development, or demonstration projects relating to indoor air 
     quality or be construed as providing new authority to conduct 
     research, development, or demonstrations. Nothing in this Act 
     shall be construed as applying to motor vehicles of any kind.

     SEC. 10. RELATION TO OTHER LAW.

       (a) State and Local Authority.--Nothing in this Act shall 
     preempt any Federal, State, or local law or rule of law which 
     is more protective of human health than this Act.
       (b) Occupational Safety and Health.--In exercising any 
     authority under this Act, the Administrator shall not, for 
     purposes of section 4(b)(1) of the Occupational Safety and 
     Health Act of 1970, be deemed to be exercising statutory 
     authority to prescribe or enforce standards or regulations 
     affecting occupational safety and health.
       (c) Relationship to Other EPA Authorities.--The 
     Administrator shall insure that any action under this Act is 
     consistent with, and does not duplicate, actions of the 
     Administrator under other authority of law addressing indoor 
     air quality. Except as provided in section 4, nothing in this 
     Act shall be construed as authorizing the Administrator to 
     exercise any authority to prescribe or enforce any standards 
     or regulations regarding common significant indoor air health 
     risks.

     SEC. 11. REPORTS.

       Not later than 2 years after the commencement of fiscal 
     year 1996 and every 2 years thereafter, the Administrator 
     shall submit to the Congress a report on the activities 
     carried out by the Administrator pursuant to this Act.

     SEC. 12. RISK ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION.

       (a) Goal.--It is the intent of Congress that risk 
     assessments conducted under this Act be conducted in 
     accordance with sound, unbiased, and objective scientific 
     practices.
       (b) Public Documents.--The Administrator, in carrying out 
     the Administrator's responsibilities under this Act, shall 
     ensure that the presentation of information on significant 
     indoor air health risks is unbiased and informative. To the 
     extent feasible, documents made available to the general 
     public which describe the degree of risk from exposure shall, 
     at a minimum, characterize the population or populations 
     addressed by any risk estimates; state the expected risk for 
     the specific population; and state the reasonable range of 
     uncertainty.

     SEC. 13. DEFINITIONS.

       For the purposes of this Act:
       (1) The term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
     the Environmental Protection Agency.
       (2) The term ``significant indoor air health risk'' means a 
     level of indoor air pollutants, or a condition that may 
     result in a level of indoor air pollutants, that, based on 
     adequate scientific and technical evidence and measurement, 
     is reasonably anticipated to adversely affect human health.
       (3) The term ``indoor air pollutant'' means any substance 
     or biological organism which is emitted into, or otherwise 
     enters, air of any kind in a building, structure, or 
     facility.
       (4) The term ``person'' includes an individual, a 
     corporation, partnership, association, State, municipality, 
     political subdivision of a State, and any agency, department, 
     or instrumentality of the executive, legislative or judicial 
     branch of the Government of the United States or of any State 
     and any officer, agent or employee thereof.
       (5) The term ``State'' includes the District of Columbia, 
     Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 
     the Commonwealth of the Northern Maraiana Islands.

     SEC. 14. AUTHORIZATIONS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary to carry out this Act.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Waxman] will be recognized for 20 minutes, and the 
gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Bliley] will be recognized for 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California [Mr. Waxman].


                             General Leave

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may 
have 5 legislative days within which to revise and extend their remarks 
on H.R. 2919.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, today, we are considering an important environmental 
issue--the quality of indoor air, the air people breathe 90 percent of 
the time.
  Experts tell us that some of the greatest--and most neglected--
environmental threats to health occur in the indoor environment. In 
recent years, Congress has tried hard to focus attention on these 
threats.
  Indoor air quality is an important part of this agenda. Some experts 
say that there are hundreds of thousands of buildings with indoor air 
problems in the United States.
  H.R. 2919 protects the public from significant indoor air health 
risks through a variety of measures designed to encourage the 
identification and mitigation of these risks. Important provisions in 
the legislation direct EPA, one, to issue guidelines for identifying 
and preventing indoor air problems; two, to establish a program to 
certify contractors regularly engaged in identifying indoor air 
problems; and three, to publish health advisories to warn the public 
about indoor air problems.
  The legislation also provides statutory recognition to a number of 
valuable programs currently underway at EPA, including the healthy 
building baseline assessment and the building air quality alliance to 
promote good indoor air quality practices.
  I am pleased to report that H.R. 2919 is endorsed by the Clinton 
administration and a broad coalition of industry, labor, health, and 
public interest organizations, including:
  American Lung Association.
  Building Owners and Managers Association [BOMA].
  Carpet and Rug Institute.
  Consumer Federation of America.
  Council of American Building Officials [CABO].
  Institute of Real Estate Management.
  International Council of Shopping Centers.
  NAIOP [the Association for Commercial Real Estate].
  National Association of Home Builders.
  National Association of Realtors.
  National Multi Housing Council.
  National Realty Committee.
  Sheet Metal Workers International Association.
  In closing, I especially want to commend the leaders of indoor air in 
the Congress--Joe Kennedy and George Mitchell. For years, Congressman 
Kennedy and Senator Mitchell have worked to raise public awareness 
about indoor air hazards and to achieve enactment of new indoor air 
legislation. It's time for their vision to become a reality.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  (Mr. BLILEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, as the chairman of the subcommittee, Mr. 
Waxman, has already explained, this legislation has been substantially 
modified since it was first introduced. I opposed the bill in its 
original form because it gave EPA new and extensive authority to 
regulate indoor air quality. I was concerned that we do not have 
sufficient scientific information to justify such regulation. I was 
also concerned that the bill would interfere with OSHA's current 
efforts to develop comprehensive standards for indoor air quality in 
workplaces.
  The bill before us today is substantially improved over the original 
version. The bill, as amended, does not give EPA new authority to 
regulate indoor air quality. Instead, the bill authorizes EPA to 
provide information to the public on ``significant indoor air health 
risks,'' including ``guidelines'' for addressing such risks and 
``health advisories'' for understanding the health effects of various 
contaminants.
  The bill also ensures that EPA will not prevent OSHA from going 
forward with its rulemaking on indoor air quality in the workplace.
  In addition, the legislation has been amended to include several 
provisions to ensure that EPA uses the best available scientific 
information when it develops information for the public on indoor air 
hazards. These provisions include specific language directing EPA to 
conduct risk assessments that are based on sound, unbiased, and 
objective scientific principles, and language requiring EPA to ensure 
that the presentation of risk information on indoor air contaminants is 
unbiased and informative.
  In conclusion, I want to commend the work of Chairman Waxman and 
Chairman Dingell, and their staffs, for improving this legislation, and 
I look forward to working with them to make further improvements in the 
bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

                              {time}  1710

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I insert in the Record a letter that the 
gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell] the chairman of the Committee on 
Energy and Commerce, has received from the gentleman from California 
[Mr. George Brown] the chairman of the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology. The gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell] has informed us 
that he concurs with the views expressed in the letter. The text of the 
letter is as follows:
                                             Committee on Science,


                                          Space and Technology

                                  Washington, DC, October 2, 1994.
     Hon. John D. Dingell,
     Chairman, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rayburn HOB, 
         Washington, DC. 20515
       Dear Mr. Chairman: Recently, the Energy and Commerce 
     Committee reported H.R. 2919, the Indoor Air Act of 1994, 
     which is listed on the suspension calendar for consideration 
     this week. I understand that it is your intention to link 
     this bill up with the Senate companion bill, S. 656, which is 
     being held at the desk. As you know, the virtually identical 
     predecessor of S. 656 in the 102nd Congress, S. 455, was 
     jointly referred to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, 
     Education and Labor, and Science, Space, and Technology.
       We understand that your Committee agrees that, should a 
     conference occur, our Committee would be represented on the 
     Conference concerning provisions within our Committee's 
     jurisdiction. We would also request that a copy of this 
     letter be included in the floor debate on the provision.
           Sincerely,
                                              George E. Brown, Jr.
                                                         Chairman.
                                  ____

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 6 minutes to the gentleman from 
Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] the lead author of this legislation.
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, first and foremost, I want to thank my good 
friend, the gentleman from California [Mr. Waxman] for the hard and 
diligent work he has done on this bill over the period of the last 
several years. Without the continued efforts of the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Waxman] we would never have seen this legislation come 
to the floor.
  I say with great sincerity, of all the hard word he does on behalf of 
keeping Americans healthy, this piece of legislation will help millions 
of Americans with the quality of the air they are breathing.
  I want to thank the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Bliley] for his 
spirit of compromise and willingness to make this bill happen. I hope I 
have not lost him too many votes by telling him that he does a good 
job. I wanted to thank him for his efforts.
  If we would all just take a deep breath, the air we just breathed in 
could contain a whole range of different air contaminants, from benzene 
to formaldehyde, from all sorts of molds to carcinogens. Yet, this 
country does not have one single health standard for the quality of the 
air we breathe indoors.

  We spend as a nation hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning up 
outdoor air. We spend billions of dollars cleaning up hazardous waste. 
Yet, the EPA and its independent Science Advisory Board--under the 
Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administrations--have consistently ranked 
indoor air pollution as one of the top five unaddressed environmental 
risks to health, ahead of hazardous waste and outdoor air pollution.
  Indoor air pollution is a serious national problem. Poor indoor air 
quality silently robs our public health and economy. It endangers our 
citizens' health, worker productivity, and increases health care 
expenditures.
  Traditionally, air pollution has been considered a problem limited to 
the outdoors. Indoor environments were considered the safe havens--seen 
as actual barriers protecting us from the contaminated world outside.
  Today, we know the other half of the story. Americans spend 90 
percent of their time indoors in some of our dirtiest air. The fact is 
that the air indoors can be up to 1000 times more polluted than outdoor 
air.
  The right to breathe clean air should not end the moment we walk 
indoors.
  Ignoring indoor air pollution has major costs to society. The human 
health toll is significant. Nine out of ten Americans are inhaling 
contaminants that have been identified by the EPA and the scientific 
community as serious health risks. Long-term health effects, including 
respiratory diseases and cancer, can be debilitating or even fatal.
  These contaminants may cause as many as 30,000 radon-related deaths 
in addition to 6,000 deaths from cancer each year. The threat of 
spreading serious diseases, like Legionnaire's Disease and 
tuberculosis, is paramount. In addition, inhalation of contaminants 
accounts for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of complaints of 
immediate sick building symptoms such as asthma, bronchitis, headaches, 
fatigue, and dizziness, and nausea.
  The costs are also economic. In its 1989 Report to Congress, EPA 
estimated that indoor air pollution costs tens of billions of dollars a 
year in direct medical costs; lost worker productivity; decreased 
efficiency while on the job; and equipment damages due to indoor 
contaminant exposure. This translates into a enormous costs to our 
businesses that cannot be tolerated.
  The Indoor Air Act embodies a responsible, non-regulatory approach to 
help protect the public from indoor air health risks and equip building 
owners with information to do the right thing in order to prevent 
indoor air problems.
  The EPA, in coordination with and consistent with other Federal 
agencies, will identify common and significant indoor health risks and 
issue voluntary guidelines to identify, reduce and prevent them. The 
EPA, after review and report to Congress, will also establish a 
voluntary program to certify indoor air contractors to ensure that 
those in the field are appropriately trained.
  The bill gets the information out to the community through a public 
awareness program that includes the publication of health advisories 
that describe adverse health effects, the causes of those health risks, 
and guidelines for addressing them.
  The EPA will be given authority to conduct indoor air quality studies 
that focus on human exposure to indoor air pollutants, the source of 
those pollutants, the effects on human health, and technologies to deal 
with and prevent indoor health threats.
  The bill authorizes a grant program to state and local governments to 
confront indoor air pollution at the local level. And it establishes a 
program to provide Federal recognition of healthy buildings that have 
effective indoor air programs in place.
  Another important aspect of the bill is a building assessment 
program, whereby the National Institute of Occupational Safety and 
Health is authorized to inspect buildings and to make recommendations 
on indoor air health risks at the request of an employer or an 
employee.
  I want to point out that this bill contains provisions at every 
juncture to ensure that indoor air information is based on sound 
science and subject to adequate public notice and comment.
  This is consensus legislation. It has the broad support of a 
coalition of industry, health, labor and consumer organizations, 
including: AFL-CIO, American Lung Association, Building Owners and 
Managers Association, Carpet and Rug Institute, Consumer Federation of 
America, Council of American Building Officials, Institute of Real 
Estate Management, International Council of Shopping Centers, NAIOP, 
the Association of Commercial Real Estate, National Apartment 
Association, National Association of Home Builders, National 
Association of Realtors, National Multi Housing Council, National 
Realty Committee, and Sheet Metal Workers' International Association.
  I would like to thank these organizations for the constructive role 
they played in crafting this legislation.
  H.R. 2919 is endorsed by the Administration, with the support of both 
EPA Administrator Carol Browner and Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. 
And as I indicated earlier, previous Republican Administrations have 
underscored that indoor air pollution is a key unaddressed health risk.
  I would like to take this opportunity to thank the gentleman from 
Michigan [Mr. Dingell]. Most particularly, I would like to acknowledge 
the efforts of Senator Mitchell, the author of the Senate bill, who has 
worked closely with me over the course of the last 8 years in trying to 
get this legislation passed.
  Again, I want to thank the gentleman from California [Mr. Waxman] for 
all the hard work he has done.
  Mr. Speaker, in conclusion, the Congress has a landmark opportunity 
to take decisive steps to confront this major public health threat. I 
look forward to working with the members of the other body to take 
swift action to enact indoor air legislation this year. Once again, I 
urge my colleagues to support this bill and better indoor air quality.
  Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume, 
just merely to thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for his kind 
words.
  I do not think they will be critical of this, but I do thank the 
gentleman and look forward to working with him in the future.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman 
from California [Mr. Moorhead] the ranking Republican on the full 
committee.
  (Mr. MOORHEAD asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.
  Mr. MOORHEAD. Mr. Speaker, as the previous speakers have indicated, 
this legislation has been substantially modified--and I would say 
substantially improved--since it was first introduced. The bill before 
us today requires EPA to identify certain indoor air hazards and 
develop guidelines for identifying and preventing those hazards. 
However, the bill does not give EPA any authority to regulate indoor 
air quality or interfere with the efforts of other Federal agencies to 
develop indoor air quality standards for workplaces.
  While we all recognize that poor indoor air quality can be the source 
of serious health problems, there is much we still do not know about 
what contaminants are in the indoor air and how they affect our health. 
One of my concerns with this legislation as it was originally 
introduced was that it did not give enough emphasis to identifying 
problems using sound, scientific information.
  I am pleased that the bill has been amended to include several 
provisions to ensure that the information that EPA uses to identify 
indoor air hazards is peer-reviewed and that it is objective and 
unbiased information. I am also pleased that this legislation now 
requires EPA to explain to the public the assumptions it makes 
concerning which populations are at risk and how significant those 
risks are. This is a provision from a bill that I introduced with 
Congressman George Brown earlier this year, the Risk Communications 
Act, and I am confident that it will improve the quality and the 
reliability of the information EPA is required to develop on indoor air 
quality.
  I appreciate the efforts of congressman Joe Kennedy, ranking member 
of the subcommittee Tom Bliley, Chairman Dingell, and Chairman Waxman 
to improve this legislation, and I look forward to working with them as 
this bill moves forward.
  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. BLILEY. I yield to the gentleman from Massachusetts.
  Mr. KENNEDY. I want to just thank members of the staff that worked 
very hard on trying to get this legislation passed, most especially 
Phil Barnett, Greg Wetstone, Donna Fox from my staff and Charles 
Ingebretson from the minority staff who worked very hard on trying to 
work this compromise out.
  Mr. ROGERS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition to the bill H.R. 
2919 and urge my colleagues to vote no on final passage. The Indoor Air 
Act of 1994 is simply the wrong approach to a perceived problem. It is 
premature, duplicative, and confusing.
  First, it is premature. Before considering solutions to this 
perceived problem, we should have comprehensive scientific data on 
indoor air and the alleged health effects associated with it. Passing 
laws without proper information on these questionable threats to human 
health is unwise. We need hard facts to see what the problem is, then 
assess possible fixes.
  Second, if we think this is a real problem--which I would question--
the solution in this bill is unacceptable. We have heard a lot of talk 
about streamlining government and making it more user friendly. This 
bill does just the opposite by adding another bureaucratic layer to the 
indoor air regulatory regime. As we all know, the Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration [OSHA] is already implementing regulations on 
indoor air--which I also oppose.
  Finally, if the Environmental Protection Agency is added to the 
regulatory mix, the resulting chaos and confusion on who is doing what 
would be unthinkable. Even supporters of this bill should think twice 
before making two Federal agencies responsible for the same problem. 
History has taught us that this is not the best approach.
  For all these reasons, I oppose H.R. 2919 and urge its defeat.

                              {time}  1720

  Mr. BLILEY. Mr. Speaker, I have no further requests for time, and I 
yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. de la Garza). The question is on the 
motion offered by the gentleman from California [Mr. Waxman] that the 
House suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 2919, as amended.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor 
thereof) the rules were suspended and the bill, as amended, was passed.
  The title of the bill was amended so as to read: ``A bill to 
authorize a national program to reduce the threat to human health posed 
by exposure to contaminants in the air indoors.''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the 
Speaker's table the Senate bill (S. 656) to provide for indoor air 
pollution abatement, including indoor radon abatement, and for other 
purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the Senate bill.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  The Clerk read the Senate bill, as follows:

                                 S. 656

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

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Indoor Air 
     Quality Act of 1993''.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents of this Act 
     is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Purposes.
Sec. 4. Definitions.
Sec. 5. Indoor air quality research.
Sec. 6. Management practices, voluntary partnership programs, and 
              ventilation standards.
Sec. 7. Indoor air contaminant health advisories.
Sec. 8. National indoor air quality response plan.
Sec. 9. Federal building response plan and demonstration program.
Sec. 10. State and local indoor air quality programs.
Sec. 11. Office of Radiation and Indoor Air.
Sec. 12. Council on Indoor Air Quality.
Sec. 13. Indoor air quality information clearinghouse.
Sec. 14. Building assessment demonstration.
Sec. 15. State and Federal authority.
Sec. 16. Authorization of appropriations.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress finds that--
       (1) Americans spend up to 90 percent of a day indoors and, 
     as a result, have a significant potential for exposure to 
     contaminants in the air indoors;
       (2) exposure to indoor air contamination occurs in 
     workplaces, schools, public buildings, residences, and 
     transportation vehicles;
       (3) recent scientific studies indicate that pollutants in 
     the indoor air include radon, asbestos, volatile organic 
     chemicals (including formaldehyde and benzene), combustion 
     byproducts (including carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides), 
     metals and gases (including lead, chlorine, and ozone), 
     respirable particles, biological contaminants, 
     microorganisms, and other contaminants;
       (4) a number of contaminants found in both ambient air and 
     indoor air may occur at higher concentrations in indoor air 
     than in outdoor air;
       (5) indoor air pollutants pose serious threats to public 
     health (including cancer, respiratory illness, multiple 
     chemical sensitivities, skin and eye irritation, and related 
     effects);
       (6) up to 15 percent of the population of the United States 
     may have heightened sensitivity to chemicals and related 
     substances found in the air indoors;
       (7) radon is among the most harmful indoor air pollutants 
     and is estimated to cause between 5,000 and 20,000 lung 
     cancer deaths each year;
       (8) other selected indoor air pollutants are estimated to 
     cause between 3,500 and 6,500 additional cancer cases per 
     year;
       (9) indoor air contamination is estimated to cause 
     significant increases in medical costs and declines in work 
     productivity;
       (10) as many as 20 percent of office workers may be exposed 
     to environmental conditions manifested as ``sick building 
     syndrome'';
       (11) sources of indoor air pollution include conventional 
     ambient air pollution sources, building materials, consumer 
     and commercial products, combustion appliances, indoor 
     application of pesticides, and other sources;
       (12) there is not an adequate effort by Federal agencies to 
     conduct research on the seriousness and extent of indoor air 
     contamination, to identify the health effects of indoor air 
     contamination, and to develop control technologies, education 
     programs, and other methods of reducing human exposure to the 
     contamination;
       (13) there is not an adequate effort by Federal agencies to 
     develop response plans to reduce human exposure to indoor air 
     contaminants and there is a need for improved coordination of 
     the activities of these agencies;
       (14) there is not an adequate effort by Federal agencies to 
     develop methods, techniques, and protocols for assessment of 
     indoor air contamination in non-residential, non-industrial 
     buildings and to provide guidance on measures to respond to 
     contamination; and
       (15) State governments can make significant contributions 
     to the effective reduction of human exposure to indoor air 
     contaminants and the Federal Government should assist States 
     in development of programs to reduce exposures to the 
     contaminants.

     SEC. 3. PURPOSES.

       The purposes of this Act are to--
       (1) develop and coordinate through the Environmental 
     Protection Agency and at other departments and agencies of 
     the United States a comprehensive program of research and 
     development that addresses the seriousness and extent of 
     indoor air contamination, the human health effects of indoor 
     air contaminants, and the technological and other methods of 
     reducing human exposure to the contaminants;
       (2) establish a process under which the existing 
     authorities of Federal laws will be directed and focused to 
     ensure the full and effective application of the authorities 
     to reduce human exposure to indoor air contaminants where 
     appropriate;
       (3) provide support to State governments to demonstrate and 
     develop indoor air quality management strategies, 
     assessments, and response programs; and
       (4) authorize activities to ensure the general coordination 
     of indoor air quality-related activity, provide for reports 
     on indoor air quality to Congress, provide for assessments of 
     indoor air contamination in specific buildings by the 
     National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ensure 
     that data and information on indoor air quality issues is 
     available to interested parties, provide training, education, 
     information, and technical assistance to the public and 
     private sector, and for other purposes.

     SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

       As used in this Act:
       (1) Administrator.--The term ``Administrator'' means the 
     Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
       (2) Administration.--The term ``Administration'' means the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
       (3) Agency.--The term ``Agency'' means the Environmental 
     Protection Agency.
       (4) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
     the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
       (5) Federal agency.--The term ``Federal agency'' or 
     ``agency of the United States'' means any department, agency 
     or other instrumentality of the Federal Government, including 
     any independent agency or establishment of the Federal 
     Government or government corporation.
       (6) Federal building.--The term ``Federal building'' means 
     any building that is used primarily as an office building, 
     school, hospital, or residence that is owned, leased, or 
     operated by any Federal agency and is over 10,000 square feet 
     in area, any building occupied by the Library of Congress, 
     the White House, or the Vice Presidential residence, and any 
     building that is included in the definition of Capitol 
     Buildings under section 193m(1) of title 40, United States 
     Code.
       (7) Indoor.--The term ``indoor'' means the enclosed 
     portions of buildings, including nonindustrial workplaces, 
     public buildings, Federal buildings, schools, commercial 
     buildings, and residences, and the occupied portions of 
     vehicles.
       (8) Indoor air contaminant.--The term ``indoor air 
     contaminant'' means any solid, liquid, semisolid, dissolved 
     solid, biological organism, aerosol, or gaseous material, 
     including combinations or mixtures of substances, known to 
     occur in indoor air that may reasonably be anticipated to 
     have an adverse effect on human health.
       (9) Local air pollution control agency.--The term ``local 
     air pollution control agency'' means any city, county, or 
     other local government authority charged with the 
     responsibility for implementing programs or enforcing laws or 
     ordinances relating to the prevention and control of air 
     pollution, including indoor air pollution.
       (10) Local education agency.--The term ``local education 
     agency'' means any educational agency as defined in section 
     198 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
     U.S.C. 3381).

     SEC. 5. INDOOR AIR QUALITY RESEARCH.

       (a) Authority.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator shall, in coordination 
     with other appropriate Federal agencies, establish a national 
     research, development, and demonstration program to ensure 
     the quality of air indoors. As part of the program, the 
     Administrator shall promote the coordination and acceleration 
     of research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, 
     surveys, and studies relating to the causes, sources, 
     effects, extent, prevention, detection, and correction of 
     contamination of indoor air.
       (2) Duties of administrator.--In carrying out this section, 
     the Administrator is authorized, subject to the availability 
     of appropriations, to--
       (A) collect and make available to the public, through 
     publications and other appropriate means, the results of 
     research, development, and demonstration activities conducted 
     pursuant to this section;
       (B) conduct research, development, and demonstration 
     activities and cooperate with other Federal agencies, State 
     and local government entities, interstate and regional 
     agencies, other public agencies and authorities, nonprofit 
     institutions and organizations, and other persons in the 
     preparation and conduct of the research, development, and 
     demonstration activities;
       (C) make grants to States or local government entities, 
     other public agencies and authorities, nonprofit institutions 
     and organizations, and other persons;
       (D) enter into contracts or cooperative agreements with 
     public agencies and authorities, nonprofit institutions and 
     organizations, and other persons;
       (E) conduct studies, including epidemiological studies, of 
     the effects of indoor air contaminants or potential 
     contaminants on mortality and morbidity and clinical and 
     laboratory studies on the immunologic, biochemical, 
     physiological, and toxicological effects (including the 
     carcinogenic, teratogenic, mutagenic, cardiovascular, and 
     neurotoxic effects) of indoor air contaminants or potential 
     contaminants;
       (F) develop and disseminate information documents on indoor 
     air contaminants describing the nature and characteristics of 
     the contaminants in various concentrations;
       (G) develop effective and practical processes, protocols, 
     methods, and techniques for the prevention, detection, and 
     correction of indoor air contamination and work with the 
     private sector, other governmental entities, and schools and 
     universities to encourage the development of innovative 
     techniques to improve indoor air quality;
       (H) construct such facilities, employ such staff, and 
     provide such equipment as are necessary to carry out this 
     section;
       (I) call conferences concerning the potential or actual 
     contamination of indoor air giving opportunity for interested 
     persons to be heard and present papers at the conferences;
       (J) utilize, on a reimbursable basis, facilities and 
     personnel of existing Federal scientific laboratories and 
     research centers;
       (K) acquire secret processes, technical data, inventions, 
     patent applications, patents, licenses, and an interest in 
     lands, plants, equipment and facilities, and other property 
     rights, by purchase, license, lease, or donation, and if the 
     Administrator expects or intends that research conducted 
     pursuant to this subsection will primarily affect worker 
     safety and health, the Administrator shall consult with the 
     Assistant Secretary of Occupational Safety and Health and the 
     Director; and
       (L) conduct research, development, and demonstration 
     activities through nonprofit institutions on the use of 
     indoor foliage as a method to reduce indoor air pollution.
       (b) Program Requirements.--The Administrator, in 
     coordination with other appropriate Federal agencies, shall 
     conduct, assist, or facilitate research, investigations, 
     studies, surveys, or demonstrations with respect to the 
     following:
       (1) The effects on human health of contaminants or 
     combinations of contaminants (whether natural or 
     anthropogenic) at various levels including additive, 
     cumulative, and synergistic effects on populations both with 
     and without heightened sensitivity that are found or are 
     likely to be found in indoor air.
       (2) The exposure of persons to contaminants that are found 
     in indoor air (including exposure to the substances from 
     sources other than indoor air contamination, including 
     drinking water, diet, or other exposures).
       (3) The identification of populations at increased risk of 
     illness from exposure to indoor air contaminants and 
     assessment of the extent and characteristics of the exposure.
       (4) The exposure of persons to contaminants in buildings of 
     different classes or types, and in vehicles, and assessment 
     of the association of particular contaminants and particular 
     building classes or types and vehicles.
       (5) The identification of building classes or types and 
     design features or characteristics that increase the 
     likelihood of exposure to indoor air contaminants.
       (6) The identification of the sources of indoor air 
     contaminants, including association of contaminants with 
     outdoor sources, building or vehicle design, classes or types 
     of products, building management practices, equipment 
     operation practices, building materials, and related factors.
       (7) The assessment of relationships between contaminant 
     concentration levels in ambient air and the contaminant 
     concentration levels in the indoor air.
       (8) The development of methods and techniques for 
     characterizing and modeling indoor air movement and flow 
     within buildings or vehicles, including the transport and 
     dispersion of contaminants in the indoor air.
       (9) The assessment of the fate, including degradation and 
     transformation, of particular contaminants in indoor air.
       (10) The development of methods and techniques to 
     characterize the association of contaminants, the levels of 
     contaminants, and the potential for contamination of new 
     construction with climate, building location, seasonal 
     change, soil and geologic formations, and related factors.
       (11) The assessment of indoor air quality in facilities of 
     local education agencies and buildings used as child care 
     facilities and development of measures and techniques for 
     control of indoor air contamination in the buildings.
       (12) The development of protocols, methods, techniques, and 
     instruments for sampling indoor air to determine the presence 
     and level of contaminants, including sample collection and 
     the storage of samples before analysis and development of 
     methods to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of 
     analysis.
       (13) The development of air quality sampling methods and 
     instruments that are inexpensive and easy to use and may be 
     used by the general public.
       (14) The development of control technologies, building 
     design criteria, and management practices to prevent the 
     entrance of contaminants into buildings or vehicles (such as 
     air intake protection, sealing, and related measures) and to 
     reduce the concentrations of contaminants indoor (such as 
     control of emissions from internal sources of contamination, 
     improved air exchange and ventilation, filtration, and 
     related measures).
       (15) The development of materials and products that may be 
     used as alternatives to materials or products that are now in 
     use and that contribute to indoor air contamination.
       (16) Research, to be carried out principally by the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the 
     National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, for 
     the purpose of assessing--
       (A) the exposure of workers to indoor air contaminants, 
     including an assessment of resulting health effects; and
       (B) the costs of declines in productivity, sick time use, 
     increased use of employer-paid health insurance, and worker 
     compensation claims.
       (17) Research, to be carried out in conjunction with the 
     Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary 
     of the Department of Energy for the purpose of developing 
     methods for assessing the potential for indoor air 
     contamination of new construction and design measures to 
     avoid indoor air contamination.
       (18) Research, to be carried out in conjunction with the 
     Secretary of Transportation, for the purposes of--
       (A) assessing the potential for indoor air contamination in 
     public and private transportation; and
       (B) designing measures to avoid the indoor air 
     contamination.
       (19) Research, to be carried out in consultation with the 
     Administrator for the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, for the purpose of assessing the use of 
     indoor foliage as a means to reduce indoor air contamination, 
     including demonstration projects to determine the level of 
     pollutants reduced by indoor plants in buildings.
       (c) Technology Demonstration Program.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator may enter into 
     cooperative agreements or contracts with, or provide 
     financial assistance in the form of grants to, public 
     agencies and authorities, nonprofit institutions and 
     organizations, employee advocate organizations, local 
     educational institutions, or other appropriate entities or 
     persons to demonstrate practices, methods, technologies, or 
     processes that may be effective in controlling sources or 
     potential sources of indoor air contamination, preventing the 
     occurrence of indoor air contamination, and reducing 
     exposures to indoor air contamination.
       (2) Requirements for assistance.--The Administrator may 
     assist a demonstration activity under paragraph (1) only if--
       (A) the demonstration activity will serve to demonstrate a 
     new or significantly improved practice, method, technology, 
     or process or the feasibility and cost effectiveness of an 
     existing, but unproven, practice, method, technology, or 
     process and will not duplicate other Federal, State, local, 
     or commercial efforts to demonstrate the practice, method, 
     technology, or process;
       (B) the demonstration activity meets the requirements of 
     this section and serves the purposes of this Act;
       (C) the demonstration of the practice, technology, or 
     process will comply with all other laws and regulations for 
     the protection of human health, welfare, and the environment; 
     and
       (D) in the case of a contract or cooperative agreement, the 
     practice, method, technology, or process--
       (i) would not be adequately demonstrated by State, local, 
     or private persons, or in the case of an application for 
     financial assistance, by a grant; and
       (ii) is not likely to receive adequate financial assistance 
     from other sources.
       (3) Solicitations.--The demonstration program established 
     by this subsection shall include solicitations for 
     demonstration projects, selection of suitable demonstration 
     projects from among the proposed demonstration projects, 
     supervision of the demonstration projects, evaluation and 
     publication of the results of demonstration projects, and 
     dissemination of information on the effectiveness and 
     feasibility of the practices, methods, technologies, and 
     processes that are proven to be effective.
       (4) Published solicitations.--Not later than 180 days after 
     the date of enactment of this Act, and not less often than 
     every 12 months thereafter, the Administrator shall publish a 
     solicitation for proposals to demonstrate, prototype or at 
     full-scale, practices, methods, technologies, and processes 
     that are (or may be) effective in controlling sources or 
     potential sources of indoor air contaminants. The 
     solicitation notice shall prescribe the information to be 
     included in the proposal, including technical and economic 
     information derived from the research and development efforts 
     of the applicant, and other information sufficient to permit 
     the Administrator to assess the potential effectiveness and 
     feasibility of the practice, method, technology, or process 
     proposed to be demonstrated.
       (5) Applications.--Any person and any public or private 
     nonprofit entity may submit an application to the 
     Administrator in response to the solicitations required by 
     paragraph (4). The application shall contain a proposed 
     demonstration plan setting forth how and when the project is 
     to be carried out and such other information as the 
     Administrator may require.
       (6) Review.--In selecting practices, methods, technologies, 
     or processes to be demonstrated, the Administrator shall 
     fully review the applications submitted and shall evaluate 
     each project according to the following criteria:
       (A) The potential for the proposed practice, method, 
     technology, or process to effectively control sources or 
     potential sources of contaminants that present risks to human 
     health.
       (B) The consistency of the proposal with the 
     recommendations provided pursuant to section 8(d)(8).
       (C) The capability of the person or persons proposing the 
     project to successfully complete the demonstration as 
     described in the application.
       (D) The likelihood that the demonstrated practice, method, 
     technique, or process could be applied in other locations and 
     circumstances to control sources or potential sources of 
     contaminants, including considerations of cost, 
     effectiveness, and technological feasibility.
       (E) The extent of financial support from other persons to 
     accomplish the demonstration as described in the application.
       (F) The capability of the person or persons proposing the 
     project to disseminate the results of the demonstration or 
     otherwise make the benefits of the practice, method, or 
     technology widely available to the public in a timely manner.
       (7) Selection of projects.--The Administrator shall select 
     or refuse to select a project for demonstration under this 
     subsection in an expeditious manner. In the case of a refusal 
     to select a project, the Administrator shall notify the 
     applicant of the reasons for the refusal.
       (8) Performance of projects.--Each demonstration project 
     under this section shall be performed by the applicant, or by 
     a person satisfactory to the applicant, under the supervision 
     of the Administrator. The Administrator shall enter into a 
     written agreement with each applicant granting the 
     Administrator the responsibility and authority for testing 
     procedures, quality control, monitoring, and other 
     measurements necessary to determine and evaluate the results 
     of the demonstration project.
       (9) Agreements.--The Administrator shall enter into 
     agreements, if practicable and desirable, to provide for 
     monitoring testing procedures, quality control, and such 
     other measurements as are necessary to evaluate the results 
     of demonstration projects or facilities intended to control 
     sources or potential sources of contaminants.
       (10) Schedules.--Each demonstration project under this 
     section shall be completed within such time as is established 
     in the demonstration plan. The Administrator may extend any 
     deadline established under this subsection by mutual 
     agreement with the applicant concerned.
       (11) Federal funds.--The total amount of Federal funds for 
     any demonstration project under this section shall not exceed 
     75 percent of the total cost of the project. If the 
     Administrator determines that research under this section is 
     of a basic nature that would not otherwise be undertaken, or 
     the applicant is a local educational agency, the 
     Administrator may approve a grant under this section with a 
     matching requirement other than that specified in this 
     subsection, including full Federal funding.
       (12) Reports.--The Administrator shall, from time to time, 
     publish general reports describing the findings of 
     demonstration projects conducted pursuant to this section. 
     The reports shall be provided to the indoor air quality 
     information clearinghouse provided for in section 13.
       (d) Study of Schools and Child Care Facilities.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator shall conduct a national 
     study of the seriousness and extent of indoor air 
     contamination in buildings owned by local educational 
     agencies and child care facilities.
       (2) Advisory group.--The Administrator shall establish an 
     advisory group composed of representatives of school 
     administrators, teachers, child care organizations, parents 
     and service employees and other interested parties, including 
     scientific and technical experts familiar with indoor air 
     pollution exposures, effects, and controls, to provide 
     guidance and direction in the development of the national 
     study.
       (3) Report.--Not later than 2 years after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall provide a 
     report to Congress of the results of the national study. The 
     report required by this paragraph shall provide such 
     recommendations for activities or programs to reduce and 
     avoid indoor air contamination in buildings owned by local 
     educational agencies and in child care facilities as the 
     Administrator determines appropriate.
       (e) Report to Congress.--Not later than 2 years after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall 
     prepare and submit to Congress a report reviewing and 
     assessing issues related to chemical sensitivity disorders, 
     including multiple chemical sensitivities. The Advisory 
     Committee established pursuant to section 7(c) shall review 
     and comment on the report prior to submittal to Congress.
       (f) Healthy Buildings Baseline Assessment.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator and the Director shall 
     conduct research on indoor air quality in commercial 
     buildings to develop baseline information on indoor air 
     quality in the buildings.
       (2) Requirements of research.--Research carried out under 
     this subsection shall comply with generally accepted 
     principles of the proper design, maintenance, and operation 
     of ventilation, filtration, and other building systems.
       (3) Persons that may conduct research.--The Administrator 
     and the Director may arrange to have all or a portion of the 
     research to be carried out by appropriate private persons and 
     academic institutions.
       (4) Contents of study.--The study shall include--
       (A) monitoring of respirable particulate matter, volatile 
     compounds, biological contaminants, and other contaminants of 
     interest; and
       (B) identification of the sources of indoor air 
     contaminants.
       (g) Clarification of Authority.--Title IV of the Superfund 
     Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 7401 
     note) is repealed.

     SEC. 6. MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, VOLUNTARY PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS, 
                   AND VENTILATION STANDARDS.

       (a) Technology and Management Practice Assessment 
     Bulletins.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator shall publish bulletins 
     providing an assessment of technologies and management 
     practices for the control and measurement of contaminants in 
     the air indoors.
       (2) Bulletins.--The bulletins published pursuant to this 
     subsection shall, at a minimum--
       (A) describe the control or measurement technology or 
     practice;
       (B) describe the effectiveness of the technology or 
     practice in control or measurement of indoor air contaminants 
     and, to the extent feasible, the resulting reduction in risk 
     to human health;
       (C) assess the feasibility of the application of the 
     technology or practice in buildings of different types, 
     sizes, ages, and designs;
       (D) assess the cost of the application of the technology or 
     practice in buildings of different types, sizes, ages, and 
     designs, including capital and operational costs; and
       (E) assess any risks to human health that the technology or 
     practice may create.
       (3) Format.--The Administrator shall establish and utilize 
     a standard format for presentation of the technology and 
     management practice assessment bulletins. The format shall be 
     designed to facilitate assessment of technologies or 
     practices by interested parties, including homeowners and 
     building owners and managers.
       (4) Schedule of publication.--The Administrator shall 
     provide that, to the extent practicable, bulletins published 
     pursuant to this subsection shall be published on a schedule 
     consistent with the publication of health advisories pursuant 
     to section 7(b).
       (5) Public review.--In developing bulletins pursuant to 
     this subsection, the Administrator shall provide for public 
     review and shall consider public comment prior to the 
     publication of bulletins. If the technology or management 
     practice is expected to have significant implications for 
     worker safety or health, the Administrator shall consult with 
     the Director prior to seeking review and comment.
       (6) Distribution.--The bulletins published pursuant to this 
     subsection shall be provided to the indoor air quality 
     information clearinghouse established under section 13 and, 
     to the extent practicable, shall be made available to 
     architecture, design, and engineering firms, building owners 
     and managers, and organizations representing the parties.
       (b) Voluntary Partnership Programs.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator shall develop a 
     voluntary partnership program in cooperation with 
     corporations and other entities that own, operate, or occupy 
     buildings.
       (2) Partnerships.--The Administrator shall enter into the 
     voluntary partnerships as an incentive to promote the 
     implementation of pollution prevention, problem mitigation, 
     and energy-wise technology strategies in exchange for indoor 
     air quality technical support and recognition of the Agency.
       (3) Recognition.--The Administrator may award recognition 
     to corporations or other persons that comply with management 
     practices that are necessary to improve air quality.
       (c) Model Building Management Practices Training.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute 
     of Occupational Safety and Health, in cooperation with the 
     Administrator of the General Services Administration and the 
     Administrator, shall develop an indoor air training course 
     providing training with respect to--
       (A) principles, methods, and techniques related to 
     ventilation system operation and maintenance, including 
     applicable ventilation guidelines and standards;
       (B) the maintenance of records concerning indoor air 
     quality, including maintenance of ventilation systems, 
     complaints of indoor air quality, and actions taken to 
     address indoor air quality problems;
       (C) health threats posed by indoor air contaminants, 
     including a knowledge of health advisories published pursuant 
     to this Act and other information concerning contaminant 
     levels;
       (D) identification of potential indoor air contaminant 
     sources and options for reducing exposures to contaminants;
       (E) special measures that may be necessary to reduce indoor 
     air contaminant exposures in new buildings and in portions of 
     buildings that have been renovated or substantially 
     refurbished within the 6-month period preceding the measures; 
     and
       (F) special measures that may be necessary to reduce 
     exposures to contaminants associated with pesticide 
     applications, installation of products, furnishings, or 
     equipment, and cleaning operations.
       (2) Training courses.--Not later than 2 years after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 
     Institute for Occupational Safety and Health shall provide, 
     or contract for the provision of, training courses pursuant 
     to paragraph (1) sufficient, at a minimum, to ensure training 
     on a schedule consistent with the requirements of section 
     9(f)(2).
       (3) Fees.--The Director of the National Institute of 
     Occupational Safety and Health, or firms or organizations 
     operating under contract with the Administrator of the 
     General Services Administration, are authorized to establish 
     a fee for training pursuant to this subsection. The fees 
     shall be in an amount not to exceed the amount necessary to 
     defray the costs of the training program.
       (4) Report.--Not later than 4 years after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of the National Institute 
     of Occupational Safety and Health, in consultation with the 
     Administrator of the General Services Administration, and the 
     Administrator, shall prepare a report to Congress assessing 
     the training program under this subsection and making 
     recommendations concerning the application of training 
     requirements to classes and types of buildings not covered 
     under this subsection.
       (d) Ventilation Program.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator, in coordination with 
     other Federal agencies, shall conduct a program to analyze 
     the adequacy of ventilation standards and guidelines to 
     protect the public and workers from indoor air contaminants.
       (2) Duties of administrator.--The Administrator shall--
       (A) identify and describe ventilation standards adopted by 
     State and local governments and professional organizations, 
     including the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and 
     Air Conditioning Engineers;
       (B) determine the adequacy of the standards for protecting 
     public health and promoting worker productivity;
       (C) assess the costs of compliance with the standards;
       (D) determine the degree to which the standards are being 
     adopted and enforced;
       (E) identify the extent to which buildings are being 
     operated in a manner that achieves the standards; and
       (F) assess the potential for the standards to complement 
     controls over specific sources of contaminants in reducing 
     indoor air contamination.

     SEC. 7. INDOOR AIR CONTAMINANT HEALTH ADVISORIES.

       (a) List of Contaminants.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 18 months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall prepare and 
     publish in the Federal Register a list of indoor air 
     contaminants (referred to in this section as ``listed 
     contaminants''). The list may include combinations or 
     mixtures of contaminants and may refer to the combinations or 
     mixtures by a common name.
       (2) Review of list.--The Administrator shall from time to 
     time and as necessary to carry out this Act, but not less 
     often than biennially, review and revise the list by adding 
     other contaminants pursuant to this Act.
       (3) Contents of list.--The list provided for in paragraph 
     (1) shall include, at a minimum, benzene, biological 
     contaminants, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, lead, methylene 
     chloride, nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, asbestos, 
     polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and radon.
       (4) Consultation and public review.--In developing the list 
     provided for in paragraph (1) or in revising the list 
     pursuant to paragraph (2), the Administrator shall consult 
     with the advisory panel provided for in subsection (c), 
     provide for public review, and consider public comment prior 
     to the issuance of a final list.
       (b) Contaminant Health Advisories.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator shall, in consultation 
     with the advisory panel, provided for in subsection (c), and 
     after providing for public review and comment pursuant to 
     paragraph (6), publish advisory materials addressing the 
     adverse human health effects of listed contaminants.
       (2) Contents of materials.--The advisory materials shall, 
     at a minimum, describe--
       (A) the physical, chemical, biological, and radiological 
     properties of the contaminant;
       (B) the adverse human health effects of the contaminant in 
     various indoor environments and in various concentrations, 
     including the health threat to subpopulations that may be 
     especially sensitive to exposure to the contaminant;
       (C) the extent to which the contaminant, or a mixture of 
     contaminants, is associated with a particular substance of 
     material and emissions rates that are expected to result in 
     varying levels of contaminant concentration in indoor air;
       (D) any Technology and Management Practice Assessment 
     Bulletin that is applicable to the contaminant and any 
     actions that are identified for the contaminant in the 
     National Indoor Air Quality Response Plan prepared pursuant 
     to this Act; and
       (E) any indoor air contaminant standards or related action 
     levels that are in effect under any authority of a Federal 
     law or regulation, the authority of State laws or 
     regulations, the authority of any local government, or the 
     authority of another country, including standards or action 
     levels suggested by appropriate international organizations.
       (3) Statutory construction.--Health advisories published 
     pursuant to his section shall in no way limit or restrict the 
     application of requirements or standards established under 
     any other Federal law.
       (4) Format.--The Administrator shall establish and utilize 
     a standard format of presentation of indoor air contaminant 
     health advisories. The format shall be designed to facilitate 
     public understanding of the range of risks of exposure to 
     indoor air contaminants and shall include a summary of the 
     research and information concerning the contaminant that is 
     understandable to public health professionals and to 
     individuals who lack training in toxicology.
       (5) Schedule of publication.--The Administrator shall 
     publish health advisories for listed contaminants as 
     expeditiously as practicable. At a minimum, the Administrator 
     shall publish not less than 6 advisories not later than 24 
     months after the date of enactment of this Act and shall 
     publish an additional 6 advisories not later than 36 months 
     after the date of enactment of this Act.
       (6) Scientific information.--Health advisories shall be 
     based on sound scientific information that has undergone peer 
     review.
       (7) Review and revision.--Health advisories shall be 
     reviewed, revised, and republished to reflect new scientific 
     information on a periodic basis but not less frequently than 
     every 5 years.
       (8) Review and comment.--In developing and revising health 
     advisories pursuant to this subsection, the Administrator 
     shall provide for public review and comment, including 
     providing notice in the Federal Register of the intent to 
     publish a health advisory not later than 90 days prior to 
     publication, and shall consider public comment prior to 
     issuance of an advisory.
       (c) Advisory Panel.--The Indoor Air Quality and Total Human 
     Exposure Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency 
     Science Advisory Board shall advise the Administrator with 
     respect to the implementation of this section, including the 
     listing of contaminants, the contaminants for which 
     advisories should be published, the order in which advisories 
     should be published, the content, quality, and format of 
     advisory documents, and the revision of the documents. The 
     Administrator shall provide that a representative of each of 
     the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the 
     Office of Health and Environmental Research of the Department 
     of Energy, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and 
     Health, and the National Institute for Environmental Health 
     Sciences shall participate in the work of the Advisory Panel 
     as ex officio members.

     SEC. 8. NATIONAL INDOOR AIR QUALITY RESPONSE PLAN.

       (a) Authority.--The Administrator shall, in coordination 
     with other appropriate Federal agencies, develop and publish 
     a national indoor air quality response plan. The response 
     plan shall provide for the implementation of a range of 
     response actions identified in subsections (b) and (c) that 
     will result in the reduction of human exposure to indoor air 
     contaminants listed pursuant to section 7(a) and the 
     attainment, to the fullest extent practicable, of indoor air 
     contaminant levels that are protective of human health.
       (b) Existing Authority.--The Administrator, in coordination 
     with other appropriate Federal agencies, shall include in the 
     plans provided for in subsection (a) a description of 
     specific response actions to be implemented based on existing 
     authorities provided in--
       (1) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.);
       (2) the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 201 et 
     seq.);
       (3) the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 
     (7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.);
       (4) title XIV of the Public Health Service Act (commonly 
     known as the ``Safe Drinking Water Act'') (42 U.S.C. 300f et 
     seq.);
       (5) the authorities of the Consumer Product Safety 
     Commission;
       (6) the authorities of the Occupational Safety and Health 
     Administration and the National Institute for Occupational 
     Safety and Health; and
       (7) other regulatory and related authorities provided under 
     any other Federal law.
     In implementing response actions pursuant to paragraph (6), 
     the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health 
     shall consult with representatives and employees of State and 
     local governments with respect to States over which the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Administration lacks 
     jurisdiction over State and local employees.
       (c) Supporting Actions.--The Administrator, in coordination 
     with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall 
     include in the plans provided for in subsection (a) a 
     description of specific supporting actions, including, but 
     not limited to--
       (1) programs to disseminate technical information to public 
     health, design, and construction professionals concerning the 
     risks of exposure to indoor air contaminants and methods and 
     programs for reducing exposure to the contaminants;
       (2) the development of guidance documents addressing 
     individual contaminants, groups of contaminants, sources of 
     contaminants, or types of buildings or structures and 
     providing information on measures to reduce exposure to 
     contaminants, including--
       (A) the estimated cost of the measures;
       (B) the technologic feasibility of the measures; and
       (C) the effectiveness and efficiency of the measures;
       (3) education programs for the general public concerning 
     the health threats posed by indoor air contaminants and 
     appropriate individual response actions;
       (4) technical assistance, including the design and 
     implementation of training seminars for State and local 
     officials, private and professional firms, and labor 
     organizations dealing with indoor air pollution and 
     addressing topics such as monitoring, analysis, mitigation, 
     building management practices, ventilation, health effects, 
     public information, and program design;
       (5) the development of model building codes, including 
     ventilation rates, for various types of buildings designed to 
     reduce levels of indoor air contaminants;
       (6) the identification of contaminants, or circumstances of 
     contamination for which immediate action to protect public 
     and worker health is necessary and appropriate and a 
     description of the actions needed;
       (7) the identification of contaminants, or circumstances of 
     contamination, in cases in which regulatory or statutory 
     authority is not adequate to address an identified 
     contaminant or circumstance of contamination and 
     recommendation of legislation to provide needed authority;
       (8) the identification of contaminants, or circumstances of 
     contamination, in cases in which the continued reduction of 
     contamination requires development of technology or 
     technological mechanisms; and
       (9) the identification of remedies to the ``sick building 
     syndrome'', including proper design and maintenance of 
     ventilation systems, building construction and remodeling 
     practices, and safe practices for the application of 
     pesticides, herbicides, and disinfectants, and a standardized 
     protocol for investigating and solving indoor air quality 
     problems in sick buildings.
       (d) Contents of Plan.--In describing specific actions to be 
     taken under subsections (b) and (c), the Administrator, in 
     coordination with the heads of other appropriate Federal 
     agencies, shall--
       (1) identify the health effects, and any contaminant or 
     contaminants thought to cause health effects to be addressed 
     by a particular action and to the fullest extent feasible, 
     the relative contribution to indoor air contamination from 
     all sources of contamination;
       (2) identify the statutory basis for the action;
       (3) identify the schedule and process for implementation of 
     the action;
       (4) identify the Federal agency with jurisdiction for the 
     specific action that will implement the action; and
       (5) identify the financial resources needed to implement 
     the specific action and the source of the resources.
       (e) Schedule.--Response plans provided for in subsection 
     (a) shall be submitted to Congress not later than 2 years 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, and biennially 
     thereafter.
       (f) Review.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator shall provide for public 
     review and comment on the response plan provided for in this 
     section, including provision of notice in the Federal 
     Register for public review and comment not later than 90 days 
     prior to submission to Congress. The Administrator shall 
     include in the response plan a summary of public comments.
       (2) Review by council.--The Administrator shall provide for 
     the review and comment on the response plan by the Council on 
     Indoor Air Quality provided for under section 12.
       (g) Reports in Plan.--
       (1) Monitoring and mitigation services.--In the first plan 
     published pursuant to this section shall include an 
     assessment and report on indoor air monitoring and mitigation 
     services provided by private firms and other organizations, 
     including the range of the services, the reliability and 
     accuracy of the services, and the relative costs of the 
     services. The assessment shall include a review and analysis 
     of options for oversight of indoor air monitoring and 
     mitigation firms and organizations, including registration, 
     licensing, and certification of the firms and organizations 
     and options for imposing a user fee on the firms and 
     organizations.
       (2) Ventilation program.--The first plan published pursuant 
     to this section shall include an assessment and report on the 
     ventilation program carried out under this Act, including 
     recommendations concerning--
       (A) the establishment of ventilation standards that protect 
     public health and worker health and take into account comfort 
     and energy conservation goals; and
       (B) ensuring that adequate ventilation standards are being 
     adopted and that buildings are being operated in a manner 
     that achieves standards.
       (3) Indoor plants.--The first plan published pursuant to 
     this section shall include an assessment and report on the 
     research program authorized under section 5(b)(20). In 
     preparing the report, the Administrator shall consult with 
     the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration.

     SEC. 9. FEDERAL BUILDING RESPONSE PLAN AND DEMONSTRATION 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) Authority.--The Administrator and the Administrator of 
     the General Services Administration shall develop and 
     implement a program to respond to and reduce indoor air 
     contamination in Federal buildings and to demonstrate methods 
     of reducing indoor air contamination in new Federal 
     buildings.
       (b) Federal Building Response Plan.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator of the General Services 
     Administration, in consultation with the Administrator, the 
     Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health 
     Administration, the Director, and the heads of affected 
     Federal departments or agencies shall prepare response plans 
     addressing indoor air quality in Federal buildings. The plans 
     shall, to the fullest extent practicable, be developed in 
     conjunction with response plans developed pursuant to section 
     8.
       (2) Contents of response plan.--The response plan shall 
     provide for the implementation of a range of response actions 
     that will result in the reduction of human exposure to indoor 
     air contaminants listed pursuant to section 7(a), and the 
     attainment, to the fullest extent practicable, of indoor air 
     contaminant concentration levels that are protective of 
     public and worker health.
       (3) Requirements for response plan.--Each Federal building 
     response plan provided for in paragraph (1) shall include--
       (A) a list of all Federal buildings;
       (B) a description and schedule of general response actions, 
     including general building management practices, product 
     purchase guidelines, air quality problem identification 
     practices and methods, personnel training programs, and other 
     actions to be implemented to reduce exposures to indoor air 
     contaminants in the buildings listed pursuant to subparagraph 
     (A);
       (C) a list of individual Federal buildings listed pursuant 
     to subparagraph (A) for which there is sufficient evidence of 
     indoor air contamination or related employee health effects 
     to warrant assessment of the building pursuant to section 14 
     and a schedule for the development and submittal of building 
     assessment proposals pursuant to section 14(d);
       (D) a description and schedule of specific response actions 
     to be implemented in each specific building identified in 
     subparagraph (C) and assessed pursuant to section 14;
       (E) an identification of the Federal agency responsible for 
     the funding and implementation of each response action 
     identified in subparagraphs (B) and (D); and
       (F) an identification of the estimated costs of each 
     response action identified in subparagraphs (B) and (D) and 
     the source of resources to cover the costs.
       (4) Requirement for response plan.--The response plan 
     provided for in this subsection shall address each Federal 
     building identified in paragraph (3)(A), except that a 
     specific building may be exempted from coverage under this 
     subsection. A building may be exempted on the grounds of--
       (A) national security;
       (B) the anticipated demolition or termination of Federal 
     ownership not later than 3 years after the exemption; and
       (C) a specialized use of a building that precludes 
     necessary actions to reduce indoor air contamination.
       (5) Submission to congress.--The plan provided for in this 
     subsection shall be submitted to Congress not later than 2 
     years after the date of enactment of this Act, and biennially 
     thereafter.
       (6) Public review and comment.--The Administrator of the 
     General Services Administration shall provide for public 
     review and comment on the response plan provided for in this 
     section, including the provision of notice in the Federal 
     Register, not later than 90 days prior to the submission to 
     Congress of the plan.
       (7) Public comments.--The response plan shall include a 
     summary of public comments. The Council on Indoor Air Quality 
     provided for under section 12 shall review and comment on the 
     plan.
       (c) Indoor Air Quality Reserve.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator of the General Services 
     Administration shall reserve 0.5 percent of any funds used 
     for the construction of new Federal buildings for the design 
     and construction of measures to reduce indoor air contaminant 
     concentrations within the buildings.
       (2) Measures that may be funded.--The measures that may be 
     funded with the reserve provided for in this subsection 
     include--
       (A) the development and implementation of general design 
     principles intended to avoid or prevent contamination of 
     indoor air;
       (B) the design and construction of improved ventilation 
     techniques or equipment;
       (C) the development and implementation of product 
     purchasing guidelines;
       (D) the design and construction of contaminant detection 
     and response systems;
       (E) the development of building management guidelines and 
     practices; and
       (F) training in building and systems operations for 
     building management and maintenance personnel.
       (3) Report.--On completion of construction of each Federal 
     building covered by this section, the Administrator of the 
     General Services Administration shall file with the 
     Administrator, the clearinghouse established under section 
     13, and the Council established under section 12, a report 
     describing the uses made of the reserve provided for in this 
     subsection. The report shall be in sufficient detail to 
     provide design and construction professionals with models and 
     general plans of various indoor air contaminant reduction 
     measures adequate to assess the appropriateness of the 
     measures for application in other buildings.
       (4) Exemptions.--The Administrator of the General Services 
     Administration, with the concurrence of the Administrator, 
     may exempt a planned Federal building from the requirements 
     of this subsection if the Administrator of the General 
     Services Administration finds that the exemption is required 
     on the grounds of national security or that the intended use 
     of the building is not compatible with this section.
       (d) New Environmental Protection Agency Buildings.--Any new 
     building constructed for use by the Agency as headquarters 
     shall be designed, constructed, maintained, and operated as a 
     model to demonstrate principles and practices for the 
     protection of indoor air quality.
       (e) Building Comments.--
       (1) In general.--The Administrator of the General Services 
     Administration, in consultation with the Administrator, the 
     Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health 
     Administration, and the Director, shall provide, by 
     regulation, a method and format for filing and responding to 
     comments and complaints concerning indoor air quality in 
     Federal buildings by workers in the buildings and by the 
     public. The procedure for filing and responding to worker 
     complaints shall supplement and not diminish or supplant 
     existing practices or procedures established under the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et 
     seq.) and executive orders pertaining to health and safety 
     for Federal employees.
       (2) Listing of filings.--A listing of each filing and an 
     analysis of the filing shall be included in each response 
     plan prepared pursuant to this section. The listing shall 
     preserve the confidentiality of individuals making filings 
     under this section.
       (3) Regulations.--The regulations implementing this 
     subsection shall be issued at the earliest practicable date, 
     but not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
     this Act.
       (f) Building Ventilation and Management Training.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the General 
     Services Administration shall designate, or require that a 
     lessee designate, an Indoor Air Quality Coordinator for each 
     Federal building that is owned or leased by the General 
     Services Administration.
       (2) Schedule for completion of training courses.--Not later 
     than 4 years after the date of enactment of this Act, each 
     Indoor Air Quality Coordinator shall complete the indoor air 
     training course operated pursuant to section 6(b). Beginning 
     on the date that is 3 years after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, each newly designated Indoor Air Quality 
     Coordinator shall complete the indoor air training course not 
     later than 1 year after designation.
       (3) Failure to designate an indoor air quality 
     coordinator.--If the Administrator of the General Services 
     Administration finds that a lessee has failed to designate 
     and train an Indoor Air Quality Coordinator pursuant to the 
     requirements of this Act, the Administrator of the General 
     Services Administration may not reestablish a lease for the 
     building.

     SEC. 10. STATE AND LOCAL INDOOR AIR QUALITY PROGRAMS.

       (a) Management and Assessment Strategy Demonstration.--
       (1) In general.--The Governor of a State may apply to the 
     Administrator for a grant to support demonstration of the 
     development and implementation of a management strategy and 
     assessment with respect to indoor air quality within the 
     State.
       (2) Strategies.--Each State indoor air quality management 
     strategy shall--
       (A) identify a lead agency and provide an institutional 
     framework for protection of indoor air quality;
       (B) identify and describe existing programs, controls, or 
     related activities concerning indoor air quality within State 
     agencies, including regulations, educational programs, 
     assessment programs, or other activities;
       (C) identify and describe existing programs, controls, or 
     related activities concerning indoor air quality of local and 
     other sub-State agencies and ensure coordination among local, 
     State, and Federal agencies involved in indoor air quality 
     activities in the State; and
       (D) ensure the coordination of indoor air quality programs 
     with ambient air quality programs and related activities.
       (3) Assessment programs.--Each State indoor air quality 
     assessment program shall--
       (A) identify indoor air contaminants of concern and, to the 
     extent practicable, assess the seriousness and the extent of 
     indoor air contamination by contaminants listed in section 
     7(a);
       (B) identify the classes or types of buildings or other 
     indoor environments in which indoor air contaminants pose the 
     most serious threat to human health;
       (C) if applicable, identify geographic areas in the State 
     where there is a reasonable likelihood of indoor air 
     contamination as a result of the presence of contaminants in 
     the ambient air or the existence of sources of a contaminant;
       (D) identify methods and procedures for indoor air 
     contaminant assessment and monitoring;
       (E) provide for periodic assessments of indoor air quality 
     and identification of indoor air quality changes and trends; 
     and
       (F) establish methods to provide information concerning 
     indoor air contamination to the public and to educate the 
     public and interested groups, including building owners and 
     design and engineering professionals, about indoor air 
     contamination.
       (4) State authority.--As part of a management strategy and 
     assessment under this subsection, the applicant may develop 
     contaminant action levels, guidance, or standards and may 
     draw on health advisories developed pursuant to section 7.
       (5) Requirements for states.--Each State that is selected 
     to demonstrate the development of management and assessment 
     strategies shall provide to the Administrator a management 
     strategy and assessment pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) 
     not later than 3 years after the date of selection and shall 
     certify to the Administrator that the strategy and assessment 
     meet the requirements of this Act.
       (6) Public review and comment.--Each State referred to in 
     paragraph (5) shall provide for public review and comment on 
     the management strategy and assessment prior to submission of 
     the strategy and assessment to the Administrator.
       (b) Response Programs.--
       (1) In general.--A Governor of a State or the executive 
     officer of a local air pollution control agency may apply to 
     the Administrator for grant assistance to develop a response 
     program designed to reduce human exposure to an indoor air 
     contaminant or contaminants in the State, a specific class or 
     type of building in that State, or a specific geographic area 
     of that State.
       (2) Requirements for response program.--A response program 
     shall--
       (A) address a contaminant or contaminants listed pursuant 
     to section 7(a);
       (B) identify existing data and information concerning the 
     contaminant or contaminants to be addressed, the class or 
     type of building to be addressed, and the specific geographic 
     area to be addressed;
       (C) describe and schedule the specific actions to be taken 
     to reduce human exposure to the identified contaminant or 
     contaminants, including the adoption and enforcement of any 
     ventilation standards;
       (D) identify the State or local agency or public 
     organization that will implement the response actions;
       (E) identify the Federal, State, and local financial 
     resources to be used to implement the response program; and
       (F) provide for the assessment of the effectiveness of the 
     response program.
       (3) State authority.--As part of a response program 
     pursuant to this subsection, an applicant may develop 
     contaminant action levels, guidance, or standards based on 
     health advisories developed pursuant to section 7.
       (4) Ventilation rates.--As part of a response program 
     established pursuant to this subsection, an applicant may 
     develop a standard establishing 1 or more ventilation rates 
     for a class or classes of buildings. The standard shall 
     include development of the assessment and compliance programs 
     needed to implement the standard.
       (5) Response plans.--As part of a response program 
     established pursuant to this subsection, an applicant may 
     develop a response plan addressing indoor air quality in 
     State and local government buildings. The plan shall, to the 
     fullest extent practicable, be consistent with response plans 
     developed pursuant to section 9.
       (c) Grant Management.--
       (1) Amount.--The amount of each grant made under subsection 
     (a)(1) shall not be less than $75,000 for each fiscal year.
       (2) Selection criteria.--In selecting States for the 
     demonstration and implementation of management strategies and 
     assessments under subsection (a)(1), the Administrator shall 
     consider--
       (A) the previous experience of a State in addressing indoor 
     air quality issues;
       (B) the seriousness of the indoor air quality issues 
     identified by the State; and
       (C) the potential for demonstration of innovative 
     management or assessment measures that may be of use to other 
     States.
       (3) Focus of resources.--In selecting States for the 
     demonstration of management strategies and assessments under 
     subsection (a)(1), the Administrator shall focus resources to 
     ensure that sufficient funds are available to selected States 
     to provide for the development of comprehensive and thorough 
     management strategies and assessments in each selected State 
     and to adequately demonstrate the implementation of the 
     strategies and assessments.
       (4) Amount.--The amount of each grant made under subsection 
     (b)(1) shall not exceed $250,000 for each fiscal year and 
     shall be available to the State for a period of not to exceed 
     3 years.
       (5) Selection criteria.--In selecting response programs 
     developed under subsection (b) for grant assistance, the 
     Administrator shall consider--
       (A) the potential for the response program to bring about 
     reductions in indoor air contaminant levels;
       (B) the contaminants to be addressed, giving priority to 
     contaminants for which health advisories have been developed 
     pursuant to section 207;
       (C) the type of building to be addressed, giving priority 
     to building types in which substantial human exposures to 
     indoor air contaminants occur;
       (D) the potential for development of innovative response 
     measures or methods that may be of use to other States or 
     local air pollution control agencies; and
       (E) the State indoor air quality management strategy and 
     assessment, giving priority to States with complete indoor 
     air management strategies and assessments.
       (6) Federal share.--The Federal share of each grant made 
     under subsections (a) and (b) shall not exceed 75 per cent of 
     the costs incurred in the demonstration and implementation of 
     the activities and shall be made on the condition that the 
     non-Federal share is provided from non-Federal funds.
       (7) Availability of funds.--Funds awarded as a grant 
     pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) for a fiscal year shall 
     remain available for obligation for the next fiscal year 
     following the fiscal year in which the funds are obligated 
     and for the next following fiscal year.
       (8) Restriction.--No grant shall be made under this section 
     for any fiscal year to a State or local air pollution control 
     agency that in the preceding year received a grant under this 
     section unless the Administrator determines that the agency 
     satisfactorily implemented the grant activities in the 
     preceding fiscal year.
       (9) Information.--States and air pollution control agencies 
     shall provide such information in applications for grant 
     assistance and pertaining to grant funded activities as the 
     Administrator requires.

     SEC. 11. OFFICE OF RADIATION AND INDOOR AIR.

       (a) Establishment.--The Administrator shall establish an 
     Office of Radiation and Indoor Air within the Office of Air 
     and Radiation of the Agency.
       (b) Responsibilities.--The Office of Radiation and Indoor 
     Air shall--
       (1) list indoor air contaminants and develop health 
     advisories pursuant to section 7;
       (2) develop national indoor air quality response plans as 
     provided for in section 8;
       (3) manage Federal grant assistance provided to air 
     pollution control agencies under section 10;
       (4) ensure the coordination of Federal laws and programs 
     administered by the Agency relating to indoor air quality and 
     reduce duplication or inconsistencies among the programs;
       (5) work with other Federal agencies, including the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the 
     National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, to 
     ensure the effective coordination of programs related to 
     indoor air quality; and
       (6) work with public interest groups, labor organizations, 
     and the private sector in development of information related 
     to indoor air quality, including the health threats of human 
     exposure to indoor air contaminants, the development of 
     technologies and methods to control the contaminants, and the 
     development of programs to reduce contaminant concentrations.

     SEC. 12. COUNCIL ON INDOOR AIR QUALITY.

       (a) Authority.--There is established a Council on Indoor 
     Air Quality.
       (b) Responsibilities.--The Council on Indoor Air Quality 
     shall--
       (1) provide for the full and effective coordination of 
     Federal agency activities relating to indoor air quality;
       (2) provide a forum for the resolution of conflicts or 
     inconsistencies in policies or programs related to indoor air 
     quality;
       (3) review and comment on the national indoor air quality 
     response program developed pursuant to section 8 and the 
     Federal building response plans developed pursuant to section 
     9(b); and
       (4) prepare a report to Congress pursuant to subsection 
     (d).
       (c) Organization.--
       (1) In general.--The Council on Indoor Air Quality shall 
     include a senior representative of each Federal agency 
     involved in indoor air quality programs, including--
       (A) the Agency;
       (B) the Occupational Safety and Health Administration;
       (C) the National Institute of Occupational Safety and 
     Health;
       (D) the Department of Health and Human Services;
       (E) the Department of Housing and Urban Development;
       (F) the Department of Energy;
       (G) the Department of Transportation;
       (H) the Consumer Product Safety Commission; and
       (I) the General Services Administration.
       (2) Chairperson.--The representative of the Agency shall 
     serve as the Chairperson of the Council.
       (3) Staff.--The Council shall be served by a staff that 
     shall include an Executive Director and not less than 3 full-
     time equivalent employees who shall be employees of the 
     Agency.

     SEC. 13. INDOOR AIR QUALITY INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE.

       (a) National Indoor Air Quality Clearinghouse.--The 
     Administrator shall establish a national indoor air quality 
     clearinghouse to be used to disseminate indoor air quality 
     information to other Federal agencies, State, and local 
     governments, and private organizations and individuals.
       (b) Functions.--The clearinghouse shall be a repository for 
     reliable indoor air quality related information to be 
     collected from and made available to government agencies and 
     private organizations and individuals. At a minimum, the 
     clearinghouse established by this section shall make 
     available reports, programs, and materials developed pursuant 
     to this Act.
       (c) Hotline.--The clearinghouse shall operate a toll-free 
     hotline on indoor air quality that shall be available to 
     provide to the public general information about indoor air 
     quality and general guidance concerning response to indoor 
     air quality problems.
       (d) Contractual Agreement.--The Administrator may provide 
     for the design, development, and implementation of the 
     clearinghouse through a contractual agreement.

     SEC. 14. BUILDING ASSESSMENT DEMONSTRATION.

       (a) Authority.--
       (1) In general.--The Director of the National Institute for 
     Occupational Safety and Health shall, in consultation with 
     the Administrator, implement a Building Assessment 
     Demonstration Program to support the development of methods, 
     techniques, and protocols for the assessment of indoor air 
     quality in nonresidential, nonindustrial buildings and to 
     provide assistance and guidance to building owners and 
     occupants on measures to improve air quality.
       (2) Onsite assessments.--In implementing this section, the 
     Director shall have the authority to conduct onsite 
     assessments of individual buildings, including Federal, 
     State, and municipal buildings.
       (3) Statutory construction.--Nothing in this section shall 
     in any way limit or constrain existing authorities under the 
     Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 651 et 
     seq.).
       (b) Assessment Elements.--Assessments of individuals 
     buildings conducted pursuant to this section shall, at a 
     minimum, provide--
       (1) an identification of suspected building conditions or 
     contaminants (or both) and the magnitude of the conditions or 
     contaminants;
       (2) an assessment of the probable sources of contaminants 
     in the air in the building;
       (3) a review of the nature and extent of health concerns 
     and symptoms identified by building occupants;
       (4) an assessment of the probable association of indoor air 
     contaminants with the health and related concerns of building 
     occupants, including an assessment of occupational and 
     environmental factors that may relate to the health concerns;
       (5) an identification of appropriate measures to control 
     contaminants in the air in the building, to reduce the 
     concentration levels of contaminants, and to reduce exposure 
     to contaminants; and
       (6) an evaluation of the effectiveness of response measures 
     in the control and reduction of contaminants and contaminant 
     levels, the change in occupant health concerns and symptoms, 
     the approximate costs of the measures, and any additional 
     response measures that may reduce health concerns of 
     occupants.
       (c) Assessment Reports.--
       (1) In general.--The Director shall prepare--
       (A) a preliminary report of each building assessment that 
     shall document findings concerning assessment elements in 
     paragraphs (1) through (5) of subsection (b); and
       (B) a final report that shall provide an overall summary of 
     the building assessment, including information on the 
     effectiveness and cost of response measures, and the 
     potential for application of response measures to other 
     buildings.
       (2) Schedule of reports.--Each preliminary assessment 
     report shall be prepared not later than 180 days after the 
     selection of a building for assessment. A final assessment 
     report shall be prepared not later than 180 days after 
     completion of a preliminary report.
       (3) Availability of reports.--Preliminary and final reports 
     shall be made available to building owners, occupants, and 
     the authorized representatives of occupants.
       (d) Building Assessment Proposal.--
       (1) In general.--The Director shall consider individual 
     buildings for assessment under this section in response to a 
     proposal identifying a building and the building owner and 
     providing preliminary, background information about the 
     nature of the indoor air contamination, previous response to 
     air contamination problems, and the characteristics, 
     occupancy, and uses of the building.
       (2) Building assessment proposals.--A Building assessment 
     proposal may be submitted by a building owner or occupants or 
     the authorized representatives of building occupants, 
     including the authorized representatives of employees working 
     in a building.
       (e) Building Assessment Selection.--
       (1) In general.--In selecting buildings to be assessed 
     under this section, the Director shall consider--
       (A) the seriousness and extent of apparent indoor air 
     contamination and human health effects of the contamination;
       (B) the proposal for a building assessment submitted 
     pursuant to subsection (d);
       (C) the views and comments of the building owners;
       (D) the potential for the building assessment to expand 
     knowledge of building assessment methods, including 
     identification of contaminants and other relevant building 
     conditions, assessment of sources, and development of 
     response measures; and
       (E) the listing of a building pursuant to section 
     9(b)(3)(C).
       (2) Preliminary response.--The Director shall provide a 
     preliminary response and review of building assessment 
     proposals to applicants and the applicable building owner not 
     later than 60 days after receipt of a proposal and, to the 
     extent practicable, shall provide a final decision concerning 
     selection of a proposal not later than 120 days after the 
     submittal of the proposal.
       (f) Building Assessment Support.--
       (1) In general.--The Director may enter into agreements 
     with private individuals, firms, State and local governments, 
     or academic institutions for services and related assistance 
     in conduct of assessments under this section.
       (2) Other federal agencies.--The Director may enter into 
     agreements with any other Federal agency for the assignment 
     of Federal employees to a specific building assessment 
     project for a period of not to exceed 180 days.
       (g) Summary Report.--
       (1) In general.--The Director shall provide, on an annual 
     basis, a report on the implementation of this section to the 
     Administrator and to the Council on Indoor Air Quality 
     established pursuant to section 12.
       (2) General reports.--The Director shall, from time to time 
     and in consultation with the Administrator, publish general 
     reports containing materials, information, and general 
     conclusions concerning assessments conducted pursuant to this 
     section. The reports may address concerns related to the 
     remediation of indoor air contamination problems, the 
     assessment of health related concerns and the prevention of 
     the problems through improved design, materials, product 
     specifications, and management practices.
       (3) Availability of reports.--The reports prepared pursuant 
     to this subsection and subsection (c) shall be provided to 
     the indoor air quality information clearinghouse provided for 
     in section 13 and, to the extent practicable, the reports 
     shall be made available to architectural, design, and 
     engineering firms and to organizations representing the 
     firms.

     SEC. 15. STATE AND FEDERAL AUTHORITY.

       (a) General Authority.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
     construed, interpreted, or applied to preempt, displace, or 
     supplant any other State or Federal law, whether statutory or 
     common law, or any local ordinance.
       (b) Occupational Safety and Health.--In exercising any 
     authority under this title, the Administrator shall not, for 
     purposes of section 4(b)(1) of the Occupational Safety and 
     Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 653(b)(1)), be considered to be 
     exercising statutory authority to prescribe or enforce 
     standards or regulations affecting occupational safety and 
     health.

     SEC. 16. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) Sections 5 Through 7.--There are authorized to be 
     appropriated $20,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1994 
     through 1998. Of such sums as are appropriated pursuant to 
     this subsection, for each of fiscal years 1994 through 1998, 
     \1/5\ shall be reserved for the implementation of section 7, 
     \1/4\ shall be reserved for the implementation of section 
     5(c), and $1,000,000 shall be reserved for the implementation 
     of section 6(c).
       (b) Sections 8, 9, 11, and 13.--There are authorized to be 
     appropriated $10,000,000 for each for fiscal years 1994 
     through 1998, to carry out sections 8, 9, 11, and 13. Of such 
     sums as are appropriated pursuant to this subsection, \1/5\ 
     shall be reserved for implementation of section 9 and \1/5\ 
     shall be reserved for implementation of section 13.
       (c) Section 10.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     $12,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1994 through 1998, to 
     carry out section 10. Of such sums that are appropriated 
     pursuant to this section, \1/3\ shall be reserved for the 
     purpose of carrying out section 10(b).
       (d) Section 12.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     $1,500,000 for each of fiscal years 1994 through 1998, to 
     carry out section 12.
       (e) Section 14.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1994 through 1998 to 
     carry out section 14.


                      motion offered by mr. waxman

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I offer a motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Waxman moves to strike all after the enactment clause 
     of S. 656 and insert in lieu thereof the text of H.R. 2919 as 
     passed by the House.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from California [Mr. Waxman].
  The motion was agreed to.
  The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the 
third time, and passed.
  The title of the Senate bill was amended so as to read: ``A bill to 
authorize a national program to reduce the threat to human health posed 
by exposure to contaminants in the air indoors.''.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  A similar House bill (H.R. 2919) was laid on the table.

                          ____________________