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m o t/> Z 57*. 73s. Laws To Curb Chemicals In Environment Urged : WASHINGTON. May 24 (AP) The Administration's pro -- Wanting that billion of posed legislation. Train said, pounds of potentially poisonous woakl empower the environ chemical* are entering the en mental protection agency "to vironment each year, the Nixon restrict the use or distribution, Atonliilstubon has urged legis including i total prohibition, of lation to restrict their use. a chemical substance, if such "There is ao longer any valid restrictions were necessary to reaaoa for continued failure to protect health and the environ develop and exercise reason ment." able controls over toxic sob- Tram, appearing before e twees to th e environment," House Commerce subcommit saM ftesseil E- Train, chair-. MP el the Couocii on Envir- swmtal Quality. ' tee, said nearly i.M synthetic organic compounds vert in commercial sse in 190. with production totaling more than 10 billion pounds. "With the changes hi indus trial needs and technological knowledge, new and more com plex compounds with new and different ones are constantly being developed and introduced into, use," he said. `Hie rodh of die interac tion between bring organism* and chemical compounds are often unpredictable, bid such interactions may produce ma terials or concentrations that are more dangeroa* than that of the initial paflutMts/' He cited pdydftriMtei bspheoyto (PCBS) and cadmium pollutants that were not regu lated soon Enough. PCBS introduced In tie 1834*, caused skin disorders, blindness and liver and stom ach damage to more than M Japanese exposed acesdentafty to h>0t levels, Tram se*d. Mora than 10 persona dfed in Japan from eati^ rice irri gated with cadmium polluted water in Japan in toe 1954s, he said. Under toe Administration's proposed Toxic Substances Control Act, which earlier paseed the Senate in dightiy amended form, toe EPA admini*rotor would issue stan dards for (honucals compounds to insure toot human health or wifdliJe was not endangered. "A new compound 'would be forbidden to be marketed if it did not meet tone staiwhnb, ' Train said, 11