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- %~u W 8IPHBKr" (reM They We 209 different hydrocarbons containing from one to 10 chlorine atoms per molecule. They are Insoluble In water, very stable to heat with most of the mixtures or individual compounds shoving little or no tendency to burn* Health end Environmental Hatsrdst . Health har.ards to htanins associated with the manufacture and use of PCBs were reported at early as 1936. Almost 1)00 people in Japan were affected by PCB contaminated rice oil In 1968. Aji_a result, s number dle and.|!*ny..more_vcre seriously, affected* ~. Studies on rhesus monkeys fed 2.5 to 9*0 parts per million (ppm) PCB in their diet showed serious reproductive effocts, facial lesions, loss of hair and enlarged livers. H Is estimated that half of all Americans carry a body burden of from 1 to 3 ppm PCBe in their tissues. Japan has banned all uses of PCBs since 1979* The limit on the PCB concentration in fish for human consumption in Canada is 2 ppm. PCBs behave in the environment elmilarly to BBT. They are absorbed from the water by organisms and stored In fatty tissue, Sxcasslve residues wore found in Croat Lakes fish in 1969. Concentration factors for PCBs in tissue over that present in the water osn be 100,000. Many of tho individual PCB compounds have half-lives of tens to hundreds of years in the environment. The 0, 8* PDA limit for PCBs In the edible portion of fish is % ppm* The concentration of PCBs in lake trout in Lake Michigan is 197li was 23 ppm. Poliowing tho ban of the use of BDT in the early 70*s, tho BDT levels in lake Michigan fish has dropped by 50 to *7*. The concentration of PCB# In those fish is as high or higher than in 1972. pcfe levels ranging from hi to 8l ppm have been found in oerp In 17 public and private lakes throughout Illinois. Theso carp were caught in Orson Bay, Vieooneln, Prom Lake Michigan, which is thought to be the source of the PCBs in the fish. It Is thought that high PCB lovels may be the reason for the failure of natural reproduction in lake trout in Lake Michigan. - Boost , Bseauso of their physical and eleotrical properties, they hsve found numerous Industrial and smnufacturing uses. Sines 1971, the sole V. S. manufacturer has voluntarily limited sales exoipt for use in electrical transformTM and capacitors. An ls|>orUnt use of the capacitors Is in fluorescent light fixtures. Economic factors: ' The high concentration of PCBs In fish in Uke Michigan and the other Orest Lakes jeopardises the . salmon program in Illinois and ths antira $3<>0 million, Oreat Lakes sports fishery industry. BubstHuiest * Other products, one or more of uhloh osn satisfactorily substitute for the different applications of PCBs, * are available from five different V. 8. and foreign suppliers. Solid state electronic devices are being developed to replace the ballasts used on fluorescent light fixtures, a major use of PCB filled espseltors. Other Legislation! - Mils to ban ths sale, manufacture and, in some eases, the disposal of PCBs have been passed in Indiana and Michigan, and are pending In Wisconsin and Minnesota. - The Indiana law recites that, "Becauao an emergency exists, this act takes effect on Kay 1, 1976." Sponsoring Organisations! "fc& 1/virK Illinois Wildlife Federation Amorlesn Association of University Wemn lobe County (Ind.) fish and Care Preservation Association Isaak Walton League Lake Michigan Interleave Group of tho League of women Voters National Council of Jewish '^nen, Area 111 Independent Votora of Illinois Business and Professional People for Public Interest Lake Michigan Fsdoratlon ` . HONS 051^* Sumary of the Illinois Bill! This bill goln * tlniliblo for the orderly phase out of the uoo of PCBc le materials manufactured, sold used or dlaoored of In flllnoln after July 1, 1976. A certificate of u?e *.rd an report be raaulred for product* cor.t**n!n" more than ICO pm cf Tho Tll<r.olr. *'oI]uUo.i Control ''oird will #.ct r.if'ts for tr*' d of J'.JPa or rite: i *1.* conUinin- V t * on of t!:*> J'jr'il.ilion/i