Congress 107 - HR 2727 - Arsenic-Lumber Child Protection Act

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Administrative procedure Arsenic Building materials Child safety Commerce Consumer goods Consumer protection Environmental health Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Agency Environmental research Equipment and supplies Families Furniture industry Government Operations and Politics Governmental investigations Health Home repair and improvement Housing and Community Development Labeling Law Lumber trade Medical research Pesticides Playgrounds Public Lands and Natural Resources Science, Technology, Communications Warning labels Wood

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Arsenic-Lumber Child Protection Act - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate lumber treated with inorganic arsenicals or chromated copper arsenicals (CCA lumber) under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), notwithstanding exemptions from FIFRA regulation of pesticides used in the treatment of wood products. Requires that such regulation deem CCA lumber as misbranded unless its labeling discloses that: (1) it has been treated with arsenic; and (2) manufacture or commercial distribution of a product constructed with such lumber is a violation of Federal law if the product is playground equipment or any item intended for use primarily by children.

Requires a study concerning the health effects of using consumer products whose usual use involves direct contact with CCA lumber.

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Aug 28, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
Aug 16, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Aug 2, 2001

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Aug 2, 2001

Introduced in House

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