Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act

Bill: 109-hr-2410
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2005-05-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Child health
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense industries
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Families
Fires
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Health
Iraq compilation
Maps
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Military bases
Military medicine
Military personnel
Ordnance
Planning
Pollution measurement
Radioactive wastes
Refuse and refuse disposal
Science, Technology, Communications
Smoke
Soil pollution
Uranium

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: 
Depleted Uranium Munitions Study Act - Requires the Director of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry and the Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to study and report jointly to Congress on: (1) the health effects of exposure to depleted uranium munitions upon veterans and their children born after such exposure; and (2) a public health assessment of persons thought to have an epidemiological link to any U.S. military installation or production facility at which depleted uranium munitions have either been, or currently are being, used or produced.
 
 Instructs the Secretary of Defense to provide to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a list of all sites in the United States where depleted uranium munitions have been used or produced, and a site-specific map of each site.
 
Directs the Administrator to report to the Secretary and to certain congressional committees on the results of a comprehensive environmental evaluation of possible contamination of the soil, air, water, and vegetation by depleted uranium at the listed sites.
 
Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a plan for the mitigation and cleanup of depleted uranium at the pertinent sites.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-06-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2005-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-05-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2005-05-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3338)
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-17
text: Introduced in House