IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1031 
Requesting the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a 
plan for a comprehensive and permanent program to medically monitor 
individuals who were exposed to the toxins of 9/11 Ground Zero in 
New York City and to provide medical treatment for all such individuals 
who are sick as a result of exposure to the toxins. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 
Mr. FOSSELLA (for himself, Mrs. MALONEY, Mrs. MCCARTHY, Mr. TOWNS, 
Mrs. KELLY, Mr. OWENS, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. GRIJALVA, and Mr. KING of 
New York) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
RESOLUTION 
Requesting the Department of Health and Human Services 
to develop a plan for a comprehensive and permanent 
program to medically monitor individuals who were ex-
posed to the toxins of 9/11 Ground Zero in New York 
City and to provide medical treatment for all such indi-
viduals who are sick as a result of exposure to the 
toxins. 
Whereas on the morning of September 11, 2001, while Amer-
icans were attending to their daily routines, terrorists hi-
jacked four civilian aircraft, crashing two of them into 
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the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City 
and a third into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C.; 
Whereas as a result of the attacks on the World Trade Cen-
ter, towers one, two and seven collapsed releasing pulver-
ized materials that are known to cause adverse health ef-
fects; 
Whereas the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Pro-
gram has documented 70 percent of screened 9/11 re-
sponders have experienced respiratory problems following 
the attacks and 60 percent continue to experience res-
piratory problems; 
Whereas the New York City Fire Department has docu-
mented that, on average, a firefighter who responded to 
the World Trade Center has experienced a loss of 12 
years of lung capacity; 
Whereas the New York City Fire Department and the World 
Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program have both 
documented extensive mental health effects on rescue and 
recovery workers; 
Whereas rescue and recovery workers came from across the 
country to assist in the rescue, recovery and clean-up ef-
forts of the attacks; 
Whereas the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mi-
chael Leavitt, has appointed Dr. John Howard as the 
Federal coordinator of 9/11 health and has announced a 
task force on 9/11 health to supplement Dr. Howard’s 
work; and 
Whereas the passage of five years since September 11, 2001, 
has provided concrete medical evidence of continued and 
persistent health effects: Now, therefore, be it 
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Resolved, That the House of Representatives requests 
the Department of Health and Human Services— 
(1) to develop a plan for a comprehensive and 
permanent program to medically monitor all individ-
uals who were exposed to the toxins of 9/11 Ground 
Zero in New York City and to provide medical treat-
ment for all such individuals who are sick as a result 
of exposure to the toxins, including all rescue, recov-
ery and clean-up workers, all residents, school chil-
dren, and area workers, and all other individuals 
who were exposed to the toxins; and 
(2) to submit the plan to the Congress and the 
President by December 1, 2006. 
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