Congress & Federal Records
- Determination of Numbers of Lead-Exposed American Children as a Function of Lead Source: Integrated Summary of a Report to the U.S. Congress on Childhood Lead Poisoning (Mushak and Crocetti, Environmental Research)
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Summarizes chapters VI and VIII of the report on childhood lead poisoning that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry submitted to Congress in July 1988, as Section 118(f) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 directed. The authors estimate that about 6 million children under 7 lived in the oldest housing, where leaded paint posed the highest exposure risk.
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Mushak P, Crocetti AF. Determination of numbers of lead-exposed American children as a function of lead source: integrated summary of a report to the U.S. Congress on childhood lead poisoning. Environ Res. 1989;50(2):210-229.
- Orphan Drug Amendments of 1990: Report to Accompany H.R. 4638, House Report 101-635, Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Reported by Mr. Dingell. The bill revised the orphan drug provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Orphan Drug Act. Succimer (Chemet), designated an orphan drug for childhood lead poisoning in 1984, went on the market in January 1991 for children with blood lead above 45 µg/dL.
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US House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce. Orphan Drug Amendments of 1990: Report to Accompany H.R. 4638. H.R. Rep. No. 101-635, 101st Cong, 2nd Sess. July 27, 1990.
- Lead Poisoning: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on H.R. 2840 (April 25 and July 26, 1991; Serial No. 102-28)
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The full 676-page hearing record, as distributed by ERIC (ED 339 515). H.R. 2840 would have amended the Public Health Service Act to reduce lead exposure in homes, schools for young children, and day care centers, including lead in drinking water.
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Lead Poisoning: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, 102nd Cong, 1st Sess, on H.R. 2840. April 25 and July 26, 1991. Serial No. 102-28. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 1991.
- Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, S. 2341 as Introduced in the Senate
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Introduced by Mr. Cranston for himself and Senators D’Amato, Sarbanes, Kerry, Lieberman, and Akaka, and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Title X of Public Law 102-550 carries the same short title.
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Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, S 2341, 102nd Cong, 2nd Sess (1992). Introduced March 11, 1992. https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/senate-bill/2341/text
- Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, Public Law 102-550 (H.R. 5334), 106 Stat. 3672
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Title X, the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, set the federal framework for lead-based paint hazard reduction: HUD and EPA authority, hazard reduction standards, worker training and certification, and the Section 1018 disclosure rule for home sales and rentals. NIEHS issued the TLC trial solicitations (RFPs NIH-ES-92-31 and NIH-ES-92-32) on July 31, 1992.
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Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, Pub L No. 102-550, 106 Stat 3672 (1992).
- Environmental Justice Folder, Kathleen McGinty Files, Council on Environmental Quality (Clinton Presidential Records, FOIA 2012-0769-F)
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Includes a memo from Pam McElwee, Special Assistant in the Office on Environmental Policy, to HUD stating that the President would sign an executive order on environmental justice and set up an interagency working group, and a September 1993 letter from Robert Bullard, Bunyan Bryant, and others asking the Department of Energy to sponsor the February 1994 conference “Health Research Needs to Eliminate Environmental Injustices.” The order became Executive Order 12898.
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Clinton Presidential Records, Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen (Katie) McGinty. Environmental Justice [folder]. OA/ID 4299. FOIA 2012-0769-F.
- Statement of Kenneth Olden, NIEHS Director, on Superfund Research, Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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Testimony on the NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program: hazardous waste site remediation, biomarkers of toxic exposure, and children’s environmental health research. It does not discuss lead or the TLC trial.
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Olden K. Statement before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives: Superfund research and development hearing. November 9, 1993. Federal Document Clearing House Congressional Testimony.
- Statement of Kenneth Olden, NIEHS and National Toxicology Program Director, on Risk Assessment Research, Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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Testimony on federal risk assessment research, the structure of NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program, and recommendations for improving risk assessment. It does not discuss lead or the TLC trial.
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Olden K. Statement before the Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives: risk assessment research hearing. November 16, 1993. Federal Document Clearing House Congressional Testimony.
- February 1994 Backup Folder, Kathleen McGinty Files, Council on Environmental Quality (Clinton Presidential Records, FOIA 2012-0769-F)
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Correspondence, meeting lists, and administrative files from Kathleen McGinty’s office, 171 pages, with the Library’s withdrawal sheets for records withheld from release.
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William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Clinton Presidential Records, Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen (Katie) McGinty. February 1994 Backup [1] [folder]. OA/ID 2611. FOIA 2012-0769-F.
- Kenneth Olden’s Testimony and Written Answers on NIEHS, House Appropriations Hearings on Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations for 1995, 1996, and 1997 (Excerpts)
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In the hearings for 1995, Olden lists among NIEHS’s new clinical research activities “a multi-center project, which will examine the efficacy of the oral chelator succimere [sic], to treat children with low blood lead levels” (p. 161), and answers Rep. Louis Stokes that the treatment of lead-exposed children clinical trial “is expected to be approximately $29 million” (p. 293).
In the hearings for 1996, he answers that NIEHS has one clinical trial, the Treatment of Lead-Exposed Children (TLC) trial, and that it is ongoing (p. 444).
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1995, 1996, and 1997: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 1994-1996. Excerpts: 1995, pp. 161, 165, 292-293, 302; 1996, pp. 438-439, 444; 1997, pp. 1350, 1363.
- Testimony of James A. Merchant on Appropriations for NIEHS and the Environmental Health Sciences Centers, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
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Merchant directed the Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa. He testifies that at least 3 million children have elevated blood lead levels and cites lead research from the Environmental Health Sciences Centers at Harvard and the University of Cincinnati, the homes of the TLC data coordinating center and one of its clinical centers.
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Merchant JA. Testimony on behalf of appropriations for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the NIEHS-supported Environmental Health Sciences Centers program. Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, Committee on Appropriations, US House of Representatives: FY96 Labor-HHS appropriations. January 24, 1995. Federal Document Clearing House Congressional Testimony.
- Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Act of 1995, H.R. 1022 as Passed by the House
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Would have required federal agencies to base major health, safety, and environmental rules on risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses. Passed the House 286–141 on February 28, 1995, and was not enacted. The House also passed its text as Division D of H.R. 9, the Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act of 1995; the Senate did not act on H.R. 9.
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Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Act of 1995, HR 1022, 104th Cong, 1st Sess (1995). Engrossed in the House February 28, 1995.
- Kenneth Olden’s Testimony, Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996, Part 4: National Institutes of Health (pp. 417–426)
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Rep. Nita Lowey questions Olden about the risk assessment and cost-benefit requirements then moving through Congress and opposition to lead research from the lead industry. Olden answers on p. 418: “The costs for regulatory compliance as well as for health care costs are enormous, and it seems to me that it would be a wise policy to make the investment to do the science. And as soon as that could be done, with a fraction of the resources that it would take to enforce regulations that may or may not be required, we could rehabilitate or treat humans who have disabilities or diseases as a consequence of these exposures.”
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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1996: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 104th Cong, 1st Sess. Part 4: National Institutes of Health. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 1995:417-426.
- Prepared Statement of Francis Collins, Richard Klausner, and Kenneth Olden on Cancer, Genetics, and the Environment, Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources
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Joint statement by the directors of the National Center for Human Genome Research, the National Cancer Institute, and NIEHS on the Human Genome Project, cancer genetics, environmental causes of cancer, risk assessment, and transgenic animal models.
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Collins F, Klausner R, Olden K. Prepared statement on cancer, genetics, and the environment before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. March 6, 1996. Federal News Service.
- Minutes of the 103rd Meeting of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, NIEHS
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Kenneth Olden chaired the meeting in the Rodbell Auditorium. Among the papers he handed out with his report were Walter Rogan’s New England Journal of Medicine article on the NIEHS-supported succimer trial and a New York Times article on the same study.
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Minutes of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council, 103rd regular meeting. May 21, 2001. Research Triangle Park, NC: NIEHS.
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences—American Chemistry Council Donation, GAO Decision B-303689
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Letter to Reps. Bart Gordon, Mark Udall, and Eddie Bernice Johnson on whether NIEHS could accept a conditional gift from the American Chemistry Council, which in July 2001 donated funds for NIEHS grants on environmental developmental toxicants. GAO found that the agreement gave the Council only an opportunity to advise NIEHS and did not limit NIEHS’s final decisions on grant awards.
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US Government Accountability Office. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences—American Chemistry Council Donation. B-303689. September 30, 2005.
- Witness Disclosure (“Truth in Testimony”) and Curriculum Vitae of William Banner Jr., House Committee on Energy and Commerce
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Banner, Medical Director of the Oklahoma Center for Poison & Drug Information and Board President of the American Association of Poison Control Centers, testified for the Association and listed the Center’s HRSA Poison Control Program grants.
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Banner W Jr. Witness disclosure requirement (“Truth in Testimony”) and curriculum vitae. Committee on Energy and Commerce, US House of Representatives. Signed March 19, 2018.