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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#000099" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/memo-to-congress-protect_b_5088259.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliott-negin/memo-to-congress-protect_b_5088259.html</a></span><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<b><font size="6" color="#222222" face="Helvetica"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:25.5pt;font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#222222;font-weight:bold">Memo to Congress: Protect Public Health, Not Toxic Chemicals<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="Helvetica"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#222222">Posted: 04/04/2014 10:06 am EDT Updated: 04/04/2014 5:59 pm EDT
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#000099" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Felliott-negin%2Fmemo-to-congress-protect_b_5088259.html&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.huffingtonpost.com%2F2014-04-04-ShimkusAPSusanWalsh-thumb.jpg&amp;description=2014-04-04-ShimkusAPSusanWalsh.jpg" target="_blank"><font color="#2ba6cb" face="inherit"><span style="font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#2BA6CB;display:none;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="40" height="20" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01CF58A0.94E1C770" alt="http://assets.pinterest.com/images/pidgets/pin_it_button.png"></span></font></a></span></font><font color="#222222" face="inherit"><span style="font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222"><img border="0" width="610" height="343" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CF58A0.94E1C770" alt="2014-04-04-ShimkusAPSusanWalsh.jpg"></span></font><font color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222"><br>
<i><span style="font-style:italic">How much would the draft Chemicals in Commerce Act recently proposed by Illinois Rep. John Shimkus (above) protect public health? Not much.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Americans have long been unwitting subjects in an uncontrolled experiment.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">For decades, U.S. manufacturers -- with the federal government's blessing --
 have been producing tens of thousands of untested, potentially toxic chemicals, many of which wind up in our bodies. These substances include suspected neurotoxins, carcinogens and endocrine disruptors, and thousands of other chemicals for which there is little
 or no information. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Why? When Congress passed the landmark Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) nearly
 40 years ago, the law considered chemicals already on the market to be safe. So while it required the government to review new chemicals for their toxicity, it exempted nearly 62,000 pre-existing, commercially available ones. They included such nasty substances
 as bisphenol A (BPA), ethyl benzene and toluene, and others that health officials still know very little about, including the relatively obscure 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (MCHM). That's the chemical that leaked into the Elk River in West Virginia earlier
 this year, contaminating the water supply of 300,000 area residents. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Only about 200 of the chemicals that were on the market before TSCA was enacted
 in 1977 have been tested for safety. Since then, the number of chemicals in the marketplace has jumped to more than 80,000, and TSCA's requirements for those new chemicals have hardly been stringent. Manufacturers are supposed to supply the Environmental Protection
 Agency (EPA) with information about production volume, intended uses, and toxicity 90 days before they begin commercial-scale production. But 85 percent of the manufacturers' notifications have contained no health data, according to the EPA's own figures.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">The result of this experiment?
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">On March 12, Dr. Philip Landrigan, a renowned pediatrician and epidemiologist,
 addressed this question as it pertains to children in <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Preliminary-Transcript-EE-Chemicals-in-Commerce-Act-2014-3-12.pdf" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">testimony</span></font></a> before the House Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy. Landrigan is the dean for global health at the Mount Sinai Hospital medical school in Manhattan
 and co-author of a recent <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/272633.php" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">study</span></font></a> on the &quot;silent pandemic&quot; of toxins damaging the brains of unborn children.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">&quot;Rates of a whole series of chronic diseases are on the rise in American children,&quot;
 Landrigan said. &quot;Asthma has tripled. Childhood cancer incidence has gone up by 40 percent over the past 40 years. Autism now affects one child in 88. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder affects about one child in seven, according to data from the CDC
 [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]. These chronic diseases of children are highly prevalent in today's world. They are on the increase....&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">And many have been linked to toxic chemicals.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">&quot;There is a strong body of scientific evidence that toxic chemicals have contributed
 to diseases in children,&quot; Landrigan continued. &quot;Going back 100 years ago, lead was shown to cause mental deficiency, learning problems and loss of IQ. Seventy-five years ago, methylmercury. More recently, clinical and epidemiologic studies have linked organophosphate
 pesticides, arsenic, manganese, brominated flame retardants, phthalates and bisphenol A to learning disabilities, loss of IQ, and problems of behavior in children.&quot;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><b><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222;font-weight:bold">Weakening TSCA Under the Guise of Reform</span></font></b><font color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">While the recent MCHM spill in West Virginia heightened public awareness about
 the threat posed by unregulated chemicals, Washington has been wrestling with updating TSCA for a number of years. Lisa Jackson, the EPA administrator during the first Obama administration, stepped into the fray in 2012, proposing a half-dozen common-sense
<a href="http://www.epa.gov/oppt/existingchemicals/pubs/principles.html" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">principles</span></font></a> to strengthen public health protections. She pointed out that it is imperative that chemical manufacturers provide the EPA the data it needs to make safety evaluations
 that take into account the most vulnerable Americans, especially children. The EPA should review the most dangerous existing and new chemicals first, she said, and the new law should encourage manufacturers to produce safer, more sustainable chemicals and
 products. Finally, she stressed that Congress must shift the burden of proof to industry. Right now, the EPA has to prove a chemical is unsafe to restrict its use or take it off the market. Manufacturers, she said, should have to prove their chemicals are
 safe.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Public health, labor and environmental groups have been calling for TCSA reform
 with the same principles in mind for quite some time. Their efforts, however, have been frustrated by the chemical industry, which wields considerable
<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/background.php?cycle=2014&amp;ind=N13" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">power</span></font></a> on Capitol Hill. What's different now is chemical manufacturers and other, related industries are now taking a new tack to undermine efforts to strengthen the law.
 They are encouraging Congress to pass legislation that appears to protect public health, but in fact would not.<br>
<br>
Last May, Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and David Vitter (R-La.) introduced the Chemical Safety Improvement Act. &quot;Improvement&quot; sounds like an improvement, right? As drafted, however, the bill would
<a href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/the-chemical-safety-improvement-act-244" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">weaken</span></font></a> TSCA. For example, if TSCA has one saving grace, it permits states to establish their own safeguards to protect their residents from toxic chemicals. Some states,
 notably California, are way ahead of the federal government. The bill would largely preempt stricter state protections.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Lautenberg died shortly after introducing the bill, and after a July hearing,
 the bill stalled. Meanwhile, just a few weeks ago, the House took up the issue. On February 27, Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) introduced a
<a href="https://energycommerce.house.gov/press-release/shimkus-unveils-discussion-draft-chemicals-commerce-act" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">draft</span></font></a> of what he is calling the Chemicals in Commerce Act.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">He should have called it the More Toxic Chemicals in Commerce Act.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">&quot;Throughout the draft, the bill gives greater weight to reducing the burdens
 on industry than to protecting the public and the environment,&quot; Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, explained in a March 5
<a href="http://www.saferchemicals.org/PDF/letters_of_opposition/ucs_csd_letter_opposing_cica.pdf" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">letter</span></font></a> to House members. &quot;When chemical interests may face additional requirements, the bill gives them so many ways to evade or challenge them, that it reduces the Environmental
 Protection Agency's already insufficient authority to regulate toxic chemicals.&quot;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Rosenberg's letter pointed out other glaring problems with Shimkus' draft, including
 the fact that while it acknowledges that certain populations -- namely infants, children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people who live near chemical plants -- may be more vulnerable to chemical exposure, it doesn't require the EPA to do anything to protect
 them. In addition, Rosenberg said, the bill would allow Congress and the courts to ignore the recommendations of government and independent scientists.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) was equally dismissive. &quot;This draft would restrict
 existing testing authority so that EPA could only require testing in the limited set of circumstances,&quot; he
<a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Preliminary-Transcript-EE-Chemicals-in-Commerce-Act-2014-3-12.pdf" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">said</span></font></a> at the same March 12 House hearing where Landrigan testified. &quot;On top of that, the Catch-22 of current law would remain. The agency would be required to identify risk
 before being authorized to test for risk. This is the roadblock that has stymied the agency for years.&quot;
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Instead of taking its cues from the chemical industry, Congress could look across
 the Atlantic for a workable model. Nearly a decade ago, the European Union adopted the &quot;<a href="http://blog.ucsusa.org/a-chemical-safety-law-that-works-for-the-people-234" target="_hplink"><font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">precautionary
 principle</span></font></a>&quot; to protect its citizens from toxic chemicals. Authorities there will not allow a chemical on the market until its manufacturer demonstrates it is safe. Last year, the European Commission published a
<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-85_en.htm" target="_hplink"><font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">study</span></font></a> that found that chemicals in Europe are &quot;considerably safer&quot; since the EU established
 its Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation in 2007, and manufacturers there are finding safer substitutes for toxic chemicals.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222">Here in the United States, conversely, our toxic chemical policy is best described
 as <i><span style="font-style:italic">caveat emptor</span></i> -- let the buyer beware -- and it's making us sick.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15.0pt"><i><font size="3" color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222;font-style:italic">Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at
 the Union of Concerned Scientist. UCS is a member of the <a href="http://www.saferchemicals.org/" target="_hplink">
<font color="#2ba6cb"><span style="color:#2BA6CB;text-decoration:none">Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Coalition</span></font></a>, which includes nearly 400 organizations and businesses.</span></font></i><font color="#222222" face="inherit"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:&quot;inherit&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font><b><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Email: &nbsp;&nbsp;Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</span></font></b><b><i><font size="2" color="red"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><br>
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<a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/">www.deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Virginia Department of Environmental Quality</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Office of Water Permits
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</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Location:&nbsp; 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA&nbsp; 23219</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
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