Depleted Uranium Munitions Suspension and Study Act of 2006
Latest action · May 26, 2006 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMay 4, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Depleted Uranium Munitions Suspension and Study Act of 2006 - Requires the Secretary of Defense to direct that all elements of the Department of Defense (DOD) suspend use of depleted uranium munitions until the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) certifies to certain congressional committees that use of such munitions in future conflicts: (1) will not pose a likely long-term or residual threat to the health of U.S. or NATO military personnel; and (2) will not jeopardize the health of civilian populations in the area of such use.
Suspends federal approval of the foreign sale or export of munitions containing depleted uranium until the Secretary of HHS has made such certification.
Limits future exports to stocks certified free of transuranic matter by the Secretary of Defense.
Requires the Comptroller General to investigate and report to Congress on the contamination of stocks of depleted uranium munitions with transuranic elements.
Requires the Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly to conduct a comprehensive study of the health effects of exposure to depleted uranium munitions on veterans and on their children born after their respective exposures to uranium.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Administrator) a list and maps of all sites in the United States where depleted uranium munitions have been used or produced.
Requires the Administrator to study and report to Congress and the Secretary of Defense on the possible depleted uranium contamination of the soil, air, water, and vegetation of each listed site.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan for mitigation and cleanup at each site.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 3
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred May 4, 2006 |
| Military Personnel Subcommittee | Referred May 26, 2006 | |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred May 4, 2006 |
| Environment and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee | Referred May 15, 2006 | |
| House | Foreign Affairs Committee | Referred May 4, 2006 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 26, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- May 15, 2006Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman .
- May 4, 2006Introduced in House
- May 4, 2006Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and International Relations, 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.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To require the suspension of the use, sale, development, production, testing, and export of depleted uranium munitions pending the outcome of certain studies of the health effects of such munitions, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Depleted Uranium Munitions Suspension and Study Act of 2006
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Arms control
- Arms sales
- Child health
- Commerce
- Congress
- Congress and military policy
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional oversight
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Defense industries
- Emergency Management
- Environmental monitoring
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental research
- Epidemiology
- Export controls
- Families
- Fires
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Hazardous wastes
- Health
- International Affairs
- Iraq compilation
- Maps
- Medical personnel
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical tests
- Military bases
- Military medicine
- Military personnel
- NATO military forces
- Ordnance
- Planning
- Plutonium
- Pollution measurement
- Product safety
- Quality of products
- Radioactive wastes
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Smoke
- Soil pollution
- Treaties
- Uranium
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 4, 2006Introduced in House
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