Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act

A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other purposes.

7/19/2007--Introduced.
Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act - Declares that the United States should develop policies and programs that will reduce:
(1) mercury use and emissions;
(2) mercury releases from the reservoir of mercury currently in use or circulation; and
(3) exposures to mercury, particularly exposures of women of childbearing age and young children.
Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to prohibit the manufacture of chlorine or caustic soda using mercury cells, effective January 1, 2012. Requires the owner or operator of each chlor-alkali facility to submit to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator and the state in which the facility is located an annual report for 2008-2012 concerning mercury waste, emissions, and content in products.
Requires EPA to conduct a comprehensive mercury inventory covering the life and closure of chlor-alkali facilities that cease operations on or after July 1, 2008. Establishes the Mercury Storage Advisory Committee, which shall report to Congress on:
(1) requirements necessary to prevent the release of, or worker exposure to, elemental mercury; and
(2) annual costs of, federal facilities needed for, barriers to, and an optimal plan for, mercury storage. Requires:
(1) EPA to establish regulations to facilitate the transfer and storage of mercury located at closed facilities; and
(2) beginning on July 1, 2008, the transfer of elemental mercury located at a closed facility that has ceased operations to a storage facility established by EPA in accordance with such regulations.
Requires EPA, in coordination with the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Administrator, by July 1, 2009, to conduct a health assessment of employees at chlor-alkali facilities that continue to operate as of July 1, 2008.


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Sponsor

• Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL]
• and 5 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. Joseph Biden [D, DE]
  • Sen. Benjamin Cardin [D, MD]
  • Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Robert Menendez [D, NJ]
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Committees

• Senate Environment and Public Works

Amendments

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Introduced		Voted on by Senate		Voted on by House		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
July 19, 2007

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• Jul 19, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
• Jul 19, 2007: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9615)
• Introduced on Jul 19, 2007.

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Related Issue Areas:

• Hazardous substances
• Administrative procedure
• Business
• Business records
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• Child health
• Children
• Chlorine
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmental health
• Environmental protection
• Environmental research
• Executive departments
• Federal advisory bodies
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Hazardous wastes
• Health surveys
• Labor
• Law
• Manufacturing industries
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Mercury
• Occupational health and safety
• Science policy
• Solid wastes
• Storage
• Women
• Women's health

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