Arsenic-Treated Wood Prohibition Act

Bill: 108-hr-3629
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2003-11-21 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Arsenic
Building materials
Child health
Child safety
Commerce
Compost
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental assessment
Environmental education
Environmental health
Equipment and supplies
Families
Federal aid to education
Furniture industry
Government Operations and Politics
Groundwater
Hazardous wastes
Health
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Landfills
Law
Lumber trade
Paints and varnishes
Pesticide pollution
Pesticide regulation
Pesticides
Playgrounds
Product safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Risk
Soil pollution
Sports and Recreation
Water pollution control
Wood

Summary:
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: 
Arsenic-Treated Wood Prohibition Act - Amends the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations prohibiting the use of arsenic-treated wood (wood treated with a pesticide that is a chromated copper arsenical or another arsenical pesticide) in the manufacture of any product that may be used for or by children or for mulch, compost, a soil amendment, certain other construction and utility uses, and additional uses as determined to be appropriate.
 
Requires the Administrator to conduct an assessment of the risks posed by the production, processing, and use of CCA-treated wood (wood treated with a pesticide that is a chromated copper arsenical).
 
 Amends the Solid Waste Disposal Act to: (1) list arsenic-treated wood as a hazardous waste; and (2) require disposal of discarded arsenic-treated wood in a lined landfill with a leachate system and groundwater monitoring system.
 
Requires the Administrator to: (1) develop and conduct an educational program to assist consumers, State and local governments, school systems, and other institutions in testing arsenic levels and making decisions concerning arsenic-treated wood containment, removal, and decontamination; and (2) establish a pilot program of grants and technical assistance to assist school systems in removal of playground and other equipment containing arsenic-treated wood and remediation activities.
 
 Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission to report to Congress on its efforts to identify measures (including stains and sealants) for reducing children's exposure to arsenic from products or structures constructed with arsenic-treated wood that will remain in use after the prohibition established by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-12-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2003-12-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
action_date: 2003-11-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2449-2450)
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-11-21
text: Introduced in House