PRINTER'S NO. 2624

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

No. 209 Session of 1985

        INTRODUCED BY NAHILL, REBER, FOX, BUNT, GLADECK, SAURMAN, VROON,
           HAGARTY AND GODSHALL, DECEMBER 4, 1985

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, DECEMBER 4, 1985

                                  A RESOLUTION

     1  Memorializing Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency
     2     to prohibit the incineration of PCB waste materials in
     3     special vessels in the Atlantic Ocean off the New Jersey
     4     coast.

     5     WHEREAS, The Environmental Protection Agency recently
     6  proposed to permit the incineration of PCB waste materials in
     7  special ships in the Atlantic Ocean off the New Jersey coast;
     8  and
     9     WHEREAS, The potential for serious environmental hazards has
    10  not been eliminated and there is the possibility of ocean
    11  contamination or rain-carried contamination reaching from
    12  Virginia to Ohio, Maine and Canada, thereby affecting large
    13  numbers of individuals; and
    14     WHEREAS, PCB is a well-known and well-documented carcinogen;
    15  therefore be it
    16     RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
    17  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the Congress of the
    18  United States and the Environmental Protection Agency to

     1  prohibit the incineration of PCB waste materials in the Atlantic
     2  Ocean; and be it further
     3     RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
     4  the presiding officers of each house of Congress, to each member
     5  of Congress from Pennsylvania and to the Administrator of the
     6  Environmental Protection Agency.
















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