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RIVERDAIE. ILL. OPINION SOUTH SUBURBAN EDITION WEEKLY dUN 1 3 1976 ( ,v" - i P.C.B. bill passes house / by Representative Getty ^ Dolton - A bill retracting an average half life in the and eventually banning the environment of twenty manufacture, sale and use of years, with some having a compounds containing life of about two hundred concentrations of years. They are a continuing polychlorinated biphenyls hazard." explained F.C.B.'i, sponsored by Representative Getty. "The | Representative L Michael sooner we stop using them } Getty (D-Dolten) and and putting them into our Representative Daniel M. environment the safer it will , Pierce (D-Chicago) has been be for all of ua." Getty ; passed by the Illinois Hbuse continued. I of Representatives and sent to the Senate for their ^consideration. . . j- Since their introduction , some forty-five years ago. P.C.B.'a have been used in a ` variety of commercial and . industrial products. s,uch as transformers. capacitors, i paints, paper, inks, plasties, J adhesives, sealants an<L Research into P.C.B.'s has found that they are known to cause significant adverse affects in flsh and aquatic life. In addition, they have been found in laboratory teats to causa reproductive failures,* gastric disorders, skin lesions and tumors in mammals. . , hydraulic fluid. , ... . More than one thousand [1 P.C.B.'s are xpersistent Japanese developed yusho pollutants which do not break dowp easily in the environment. One-halfof the ` 1.4 billion pounds of P.C.B.'s manufactured over the past forty-five years have en- disease in 1968 from use of rice oil contaminated with P.C.B.'s. Their symptoms included eye discharge, severe acne, ulcers of the uterus, hearing loss and stersd the environment through discharges to the air. water and land. ' neurological disorders. Pregnaht women suffered miscarriages and stillbirths, and Surviving infants "I am pleased that the suffered from abnormal House of Representatives pigmentation as a result of agrees with Rsprssonlatives agrees., with Representative Pierce and transplacental .transmission of P.C.B.'s. Since then, Japan has banned the myself that the need is great manufacture of P.C.B.'s and to regulate this dangerous has controlled and limited chemical, 7 stated their import. They have also , Representative Getty. been outlawed in some eight ``The most significant fact other countries and several behind tbs introduction of states. - this bOi is that P.C.B.'s have House BUI 3866. the tietty-Pierce bans the manufacture, sale and use of in Illinois, except in closed capacitors and electrical transformers, by January, 1977. Manufac turers and users of P.C.B.'s for closed sysllms will have two additional years to develop adequate sub stitutes before the banning of P.C.B.'s in transformers and capacitors will go into effect. "1 wish to commend the industries involved in the use of P.C.B.'s for their cooperation in agreeing to an orderly and. workable transition to adequate and safe substitutes for P.C.B.' s." said Getty. The Mn#^j santo Corporation it the (Himiipil manufacturer of the produce and electronic and transformer manufacturers are the principal users in , dosed systems.' ' An amendment was also added in committee hearings to allow the Pollution Control Board to recommend earlier discontinuation even in transformers and capacitors if a safe substitute is (bund before the two year research lime la concluded. The Pollution Control Board is also empowered to extend I the period not to exceed an additional two yoer limit if specific, need > exists. Proposed Federal iegialalion will ban ail use in three er j four years. ; MQNS 037282