CHEMICALS

Addresses

Chemical Weapons Warfare: Kenneth L. Adelman, 31341 [8NO]

Science, Risk, and Public Policy, William D. Ruckelshaus, 17182 [23JN]

Analyses

Food Safety Modernization Act, 27917-27919 [7OC]

Articles and editorials

Anathema to Some Allies—Bipartisan Cabal Assails Immorality of Chemical Arms, 9545 [21AP]

Chemical Weapons Production (excerpt), 32690 [15NO]

Chemical Weapons—A Promising and Overlooked Arms Control Prospect, 8677 [14AP]

Cloudburst of Yellow Rain Reports, 23018 [4AU]

Congress Questions Binary Weapons Plan, 18056 [29JN]

Coyote-1080 Conspiracy—An Aborted Attempt To Drive Livestock Off Federal Land, 10642 [2MY]

CPSC Ban on Urea-Formaldehyde Foam Insulation, 3456 [1MR]

Dioxin Charges Are Flawed, 21057 [27JY]

Dioxin's First Victims Wait in Pain, 10843 [3MY]

Dying Vietnam Vet Videotapes Testimony, 2148 [14FE]

EPA Faults a Laboratory Involves Chemicals Now on Market, 12161 [12MY]

EPA Faults Tests on 200 Pesticides—Work by a Laboratory Involves Chemicals Now on Market, 12803 [18MY]

EPA Turns Up Safety Questions in Pesticide Probe, 12161 [12MY]

Evidence Called Strong—Dioxin Tied To Chemical Workers' Cancer, 22746 [3AU]

Experts Denounce AMA Stand on Dioxin—Reagan Applauds Position That It Is Not a Proven Health Threat, 17262 [27JN]

Fallout From Yellow Rain, 31340 [8NO]

Final Battle With Agent Orange—Hanging on for a Viet Vet, the Final Battle, 2147 [14FE]

How the Soviets Use Chemicals To Wage War, 17879 [28JN], 18077-18078 [29JN], 18240-18242 [29JN], 20379 [21JY]

Lifting the Curtain on Afghanistan's Horror, 1210 [31JA]

Make No Mistake—They're Using Yellow Rain, 17484 [27JN]

Memos Show Dow's Anxiety on Dioxin, 9072 [19AP]

Mines, Rockets and a New Nerve Agent Fatten Pentagon's Chemical Warfare Budget, 6215 [18MR]

Of Mice and Men—Toxic-Waste Fights Start in Laboratories, But How Good Are the Testing Methods?, 17183 [23JN]

Only One Recommended Herbicide To Use in Killing PIK Wheat, 16874 [22JN]

Pentagon Acknowledges Chemical Arms Supply, 17978 [29JN]

Poison Problem—Fearing New Love Canal, Chemical Firms Stress Safer Disposal of Hazardous Waste, 20161 [20JY]

Scandal in Chemical Testing, 12804 [18MY]

State's Waste Cleanup Fund Falling Short of Income Goal, 30161 [31OC], 30573 [2NO]

There Are No Plaudits for EPA Laboratory Audits, 16398 [20JN]

U.S. Proposes Destroying Chemical Weapons, 2205 [15FE]

Vote for Nerve Gas, 31344 [8NO]

Who Needs Chemical Weapons?, 18057 [29JN]

Yellow Rain and the Future of Arms Agreements, 20381-20387 [21JY]

Your Fertilizer Association—A Century of Progress, 15292 [9JN]

Bills and resolutions

Agent orange exposure (see H.R. 1914)

Bacteriological and toxin weapons: diplomatic actions (see S. Res. 31)

Benzenoid chemicals (NA-125 and NA-125-Chloride): duty (see S. 1743; H.R. 1947, 2258)

B-naphthol: duty (see H.R. 908, 4087)

Catalytic naphtha: duty (see H.R. 3785)

Chemical weapons: negotiations to ban (see S. Res. 207, 283)

Duty: suspend certain (see S. 1476, 1477, 1478; H.R. 3311, 3312, 3313)

Flecainide acetate: duty (see S. 1442; H.R. 1995)

4,Bis (a,a-dimethylbenzyl) diphenylamine: duty (see S. 1266; H.R. 1951)

4-chloro-3-methylphenol: duty (see H.R. 4329, 4337)

Guanidine: duty (see S. 2022)

Herbicide exposure (see H.R. 1914)

Hydrazone, 3-(4-methyl-piperazinyliminomethyl) rifamycin SV: duty (see H.R. 3742)

Intermediates: duty (see S. 1886; H.R. 4035)

Meta-toluic acid (MTA): duty (see H.R. 4218)

MXDA (meta-Xylene-Diamine): suspend duty (see S. 1372; H.R. 1667)

Naphtha: duty (see H.R. 4232)

Nitrogenous chemical compounds: duty (see H.R. 1946, 2215)

1,3-BAC (1,3-Bis [aminomethyl]-cyclohexane): suspend duty (see S. 1372; H.R. 1667)

Paracresol: duty (see H.R. 1957)

Parathion: duty on ethyl and methyl (see H.R. 3817)

6-Amino-1-naphthol-3-sulfonic acid: duty treatment (see H.R. 2336, 4088)

Sulfur dioxide emissions: establish tax incentives and financial assistance to reduce (see H.R. 4483)

Tartaric chemicals: duty (see H.R. 4513)

Toxic chemical exposure (see H.R. 1914)

Toxic waste sites superfund program: extend (see S. 816, 860)

2-(4-amino-phenyl) -6-methylbenzothiazole -7- sulfonic acid: duty (see H.R. 2335, 4089)

2-methyl, 4-chlorophenol: duty (see S. 1123; H.R. 2221, 3992)

Weapons: prohibit production (see S. 994; H.R. 822, 2469; H.J. Res. 267)

3-[Hydroxydiphenyl-acetyl) oxy]-1,1-dimethylpiperidinium bromide: duty (see H.R. 3740)

4-chloro-3-methylphenol: duty (see S. 1759)

5H-Dibenz [b,f] azepine-5-propanamine, 10, 11-dihydro-N-methyl-,monohydrochloride: duty (see H.R. 3741)

Letters

Chemical weapons: Charles C. Flowerree and James F. Leonard, 31334 [8NO]

———Lewis Fields (excerpt), 15807 [15JN]

———Richard L. Wagner (excerpt), 15801 [15JN]

———Sec. of State Shultz (excerpt), 15823 [15JN]

———(sundry), 15824 [15JN]

Yellow rain is a weapon, sundry scientists, 16677 [21JN]

Letters of transmittal

Use of chemical warfare agents by the Soviet Union: Acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, 23015, 23024 [4AU]

Memorandums

U.S. Chemical Warfare Preparedness Program, Library of Congress (excerpt), 31334 [8NO]

Memorials of legislature

Dimethyl sulfoxide use in prescriptions: Idaho, 13484 [24MY]

Papers

Illustrative Onsite Inspection Procedures for Verification of Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction, 23015-23018 [4AU]

Remarks in House

Acid rain: experiment for reducing, 8374 [13AP]

Agent orange: compensation for exposure, 18686 [12JY]

———compensation for illnesses caused by exposure, 2147 [14FE]

AMA: position on dangers of dioxin, 17262 [27JN]

Binary nerve gas weapons: development, 11611 [10MY]

Chemical and biological warfare, 23132 [4AU]

Chemical weapons: demilitarization of BZ, 16724 [21JN]

———production, 15781, 15783 [15JN], 22189, 22190, 22191 [2AU], 22598 [3AU], 31734 [9NO]

CPSC: ban on urea-formaldehyde foam insulation, 3456 [1MR]

Dioxin: AMA position on dangers, 17262 [27JN]

———carcinogen, 22745 [3AU]

———funds to monitor, test, and study, 18098 [29JN]

———health risks of exposure to contaminated defoliants, 10843 [3MY]

Dow Chemical Co.: failure to disclose toxicity of herbicide agents, 9072 [19AP]

Drinking water: completion of studies on barium content (H.R. 4302), 30905 [3NO]

Duty: suspend on certain, 31854 [9NO]

EPA: evaluation of regulations, 17181 [23JN]

Food safety: improve (H.R. 4121), 27916-27919, 27934 [7OC]

Hazardous substances: adequacy of regulatory programs, 16398 [20JN]

———compensation for illness and economic loss resulting from exposure (H.R. 2330), 7324 [24MR]

Hazardous waste: alternative disposal methods (H.R. 2867, 3129), 20161 [20JY]

———ban land disposal of liquid, 3083 [28FE]

———prohibit land disposal of liquid (H.R. 1632), 2894 [24FE]

———waste end tax, 30161 [31OC], 30572 [2NO]

Hazardous Waste Control and Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 2867), 26948 [3OC]

International Year of Study on the Global Consequence of Nuclear War, 29959 [31OC]

Meat: use of chemicals in production, 6078 [17MR]

Nerve gas weapons: development, 23131 [4AU]

———production, 15781, 15783 [15JN], 22188 [2AU], 32663, 32685-32693 [15NO]

Nuclear war: biological consequences conference, 29959 [31OC]

OSHA: proposed oversight hearings, 5875 [17MR]

Roundup (herbicide): used to kill wheat, 16873 [22JN]

Saccharin: extend moratorium on use, 8506 [13AP]

Southeast Asia: use of tricothecene toxin, 23132 [4AU]

Times Beach, Mo.: dioxin contamination, 3707 [2MR]

Toxic substances: establish liability for injury (H.R. 4303), 30907 [3NO]

———improve regulatory process (H.R. 4304), 30907 [3NO]

Toxic Victims Compensation Act: introduction (H.R. 2330), 7324 [24MR]

Toxic waste: relief for victims of contamination (H.R. 4369), 32769, 32785 [15NO]

Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation Corrective Measures Act: introduction (H.R. 3819), 23357 [4AU]

Veterans: waive 1-year limitation on agent orange medical disability claims (H.R. 1135), 1353 [1FE]

Vietnam-era veterans: compensation for exposure to agent orange, 18686 [12JY]

Waste site: clarify State cleanup responsibilities (H.R. 1613), 2877 [23FE]

Wilsonville, Ill.: closing of chemical waste site, 27192 [4OC]

Remarks in Senate

Acid rain: control (S. 769), 4846 [21MR]

Agent orange: health effects on veterans, 21057 [27JY]

Agent Orange Relief Act: introduction (S. 374), 1367 [2FE]

Benzenoid chemicals: duty suspension (S. 1743), 22484 [3AU]

Binary chemical weapons: delete funding, 7063 [23MR]

———prohibition of expenditures, 15299 [9JN]

Chemical and toxin weapons: condemn use by Soviet Union (S. Res. 207), 23024-23027 [4AU]

Chemical weapons: ban (S. Res. 283), 33841 [17NO]

———funding, 31325-31350 [8NO]

Clomiphene citrate: suspend duty (S. 2172), 34505 [18NO]

Desipramine hydrochloride: suspension of duty (S. 2054), 31038 [4NO]

Dimethylpiperidinium bromide: suspension of duty (S. 2056), 31038 [4NO]

Flecainide acetate: suspension of duty (S. 1442), 15280 [9JN]

4-chloro-3-methylphenol: extend suspension of duty (S. 1759), 22508 [3AU]

Hazardous Waste Identification Improvement Act: introduction (S. 346), 1296-1299 [1FE]

Rifampin: suspension of duty (S. 2054), 31038 [4NO]

Soviet Union: chemical warfare, 30183 [1NO]

———use of chemical warfare, 18076 [29JN]

———use of chemical warfare agents (S. Res. 201), 23013-23020 [4AU]

Yellow rain: investigate, 30183 [1NO]

Reports

Chemical Retalitory Stockpile Satus Review: Dept. of Defense, 29237 [25OC]

Chemical Warfare Capability, GAO (sundry excerpts), 15804 [15JN]

Chemical Weapons Stockpile: GAO (excerpt), 31332 [8NO]

———Gold Commission (excerpt), 31332 [8NO]

Hazardous Waste Disposal, Committee on Energy and Commerce (House) (excerpt), 20161 [20JY]

Summary of Arguments on the Origins of Yellow Rain, Amos Townsend, 30184 [1NO]

U.S. Alternate Energy Needs—The Synthetic Fuel Program: American Institute of Chemical Engineers (excerpt), 34739 [18NO]

Use of Chemical Warfare Agents by the Soviet Union: Acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, 23015, 23024 [4AU]

Statements

Chemical Weapons Stockpile: Frank H. Westheimer (excerpt), 31334 [8NO]

———Louis Fields (excerpt), 31333 [8NO]

———Sec. of Defense Weinberger (excerpt), 31329, 31330, 31348 [8NO], 32690 [15NO]

International Control of Benzidine, Howard D. Samuel, 28815 [20OC]

Studies

Gas Warfare, Library of Congress, 24344 [15SE]

Tables

Chemical weapon agents used during World War I, 31336 [8NO]

U.S. imports of 4-chloro-3-methylphenol, 31854 [9NO]

Texts of

H.R. 1135, waive one-year limitation on agent orange disability claims, 1353 [1FE]

H.R. 2867, Hazardous Waste Control and Enforcement Act, Mikulski amendment, 26948 [3OC]

H.R. 3819, Urea Formaldehyde Foam Insulation Corrective Measures Act, 23357 [4AU]

H.R. 4185, Dept. of Defense appropriations: chemical weapons section, 31326 [8NO]

H.R. 4302, completion of studies on barium content in drinking water, 30906 [3NO]

S. 346, Hazardous Waste Identification Improvement Act, 1298 [1FE]

S. 374, Agent Orange Relief Act, 1367 [2FE]

S. 675, Dept. of Defense appropriations: chemical weapons section (conference report), 31328 [8NO]

S. 2172, suspension of duty on clomiphene citrate, 34505 [18NO]

S. Res. 201, use of chemical warfare agents by the Soviet Union, 23013 [4AU]

S. Res. 207, condemn use of chemical and toxin weapons by Soviet Union, 23024 [4AU]

S. Res. 283, ban on chemical weapons, 33841 [17NO]