PRINTER'S NO. 4120
No. 375 Session of 1994
INTRODUCED BY PESCI, PETRARCA, VAN HORNE, DERMODY, KUKOVICH,
MIHALICH, TRICH, WOZNIAK, STEELMAN, COLAIZZO AND TANGRETTI,
SEPTEMBER 27, 1994
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, SEPTEMBER 27, 1994
A RESOLUTION
1 Requiring the Pennsylvania Department of Health to expand a
2 previous study on cancer rates in the Alle-Kiski Valley.
3 WHEREAS, Incidences of cancer in Armstrong County and
4 Westmoreland County are well above the State cancer rate; and
5 WHEREAS, A number of manufacturers operated a plant in
6 Apollo, Armstrong County, which processed uranium for about 30
7 years; and
8 WHEREAS, A company still operates a plant in Parks Township,
9 Armstrong County, which cleans radiation-contaminated equipment
10 and maintains a 40-acre uranium waste site; and
11 WHEREAS, Citizens of Apollo and the surrounding communities
12 have complained of high incidences of cancer in their families;
13 and
14 WHEREAS, The Department of Health conducted an inconclusive
15 study of cancer rates for the years 1984 to 1985 for the Alle-
16 Kiski Valley; and
17 WHEREAS, Upon the request of local citizens, government
1 officials and citizen groups like Physicians for Social
2 Responsibility, the Department of Health has not made a decision
3 on expanding the scope of the study to a ten-year period;
4 therefore be it
5 RESOLVED, That the Department of Health shall, within 90
6 days, expand the study on cancer rates in the Alle-Kiski Valley
7 to a ten-year period beginning with the year 1984; and be it
8 further
9 RESOLVED, That upon completion of the study, the Department
10 of Health shall send a copy to every member of the House of
11 Representatives, to the Physicians for Social Responsibility and
12 to the appropriate local government officials in the study area.
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