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HONS 0 3 5 2 3 1 THE HEW YORK TIMES TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1976 HouscVotesBanonOutput Of PCB's Within 3 Years \ 8y RICHARD D. LYONS SwUl tTt*WV*TqctTUii WASHINGTON, Aug. 23--'er to Japan, of the harm that The House voted tonight to ban! they can cause to humans and' within three years the manufac-j animals, ture of PCB's, a class of chemi-j "We have identified a mad cal that has been linked to;dog in PCB and it's time to get cancer and birth defects, watenrid of It," said Representative pollution and the contamination!Gilbert Glide, the Maryland Re* of wildlife. publican who cosponsored the The action is an amendment amendment that would impose to the toxic substances control;**** ban. bill, which would give to the; The amendment Itself passed head of the Environmental Pro- by a voice vote with only token tection Agency additional pow-jresistance. Opponents contend ers to regulate the use of haz-!*d that the Environmental Pro* ardous chemicals and even tojtection Agency already had the ban them. power to ban the chemical. PC3-, -- polychlorinated w-j TlK b'n itself passed by a phenyls--were singled ont for!vote * 319 45* A similar special legislate attention h*3 !ssed the Senate, cause of widespread reports.!601 -ithont_the_PCB prohibi- ranging from the Hudson Riv-Continued ou page 19, rvam j House Votes Ban on the Output of PCB's Continued From Page 1, Col 3 sett. Democrat of California, ileen tested to see if they are --------------Isay Qjat PCB*s were not bio-{harmful. , tion. The difference w2t bra'i gradate ^ if the] Also, they argued, about', to be resolved in a Senate-were ^ ^gy ft would-1.000 new chemicals come into- House conference. 'be 100 to 200 years before!csc annually with no require-! With orwithout the PCB ban,1pcgj cleared out of!nwnt ***** they be tested. f the Ml faces the possibility oi;the environment-" j The main elements of the bill[ a veto by President Ford. Thej ^ $. White House has taken the po*| covered in the human milk ofi sition that its broad previsions;more than 30 women living E^iSq!2! ?[**"**> *** would impose testing require*; Michigan. The single most dra-` thJ 9 days' **W that would be almost anpossi-!jn jg^g w{Kn morc l.00Q;begmnmg commercial produc-j Ne to meet. (persons became ill from PCB's 'tion of a new chemical. i But tome House members;that bad leaked into rice oil <JThe agency may impose re-] said during today's debate that;used for cooking, [strictions on the uses of chem they felt that banning PCB's} PCB's, wh:-.h have been used1 icals it deems hazardous. 1 was "a. inoral responsibility tolby the thor'-ands of tons as ^The public may sue_to force] the people." as it'was phrased [insulation in electrical equip-1 compliance with the bSI's pro-' by ' Representative Ronald U.ment, have been linked to can- j visions. * Delhims, Democrat of Califor- cer of the Hver. the realfunc-1 3Smafl chemical makers mar, aia. j,tion of chfldrta bom to women ;be exempted from the bill's pro* Representative John M. Mur-jwho had been exposed to the;visions under certain ciraim- phy, the Democrat from Staten chemical, and a variety of skin .sunces- Istand who was the floor man-[disorders. . j Similar legislation was passed ager of the bin. estimated that! With the case of PCB s m^v the Senate and the House in the cost of cleaning PCB's out?nd, supporters of the toxic ;^>th ^e 92d and 93d Con-| of the Hudson River would he`substances bill said that J^y'gresses. But conference commit- j "over 20 million to New York * few thousand of the 30,900:tees to resolve the dif| State atone." -chemicals on the market baveifergnceSj j Earlier in the year the Had- The chemical industry had) ton River was closed to com- ` lo.bb.ie.d strenuous.l.y...a...g..a..i.n..s..t..t.h..e...j mercial fishing because of the, [legislation, contending that the contamination of the food! [provisions ' were unnecessary chain, particularly striped bass,! land would be too expensive, by PCB's. ; j The PCB amendment would Representative John D. Dm- ban. by Oct. 1. 197S. the man*j gell, the Michigan Democrat Sufacture of the chemical for! who was the other sponsor of [nonenclosed uses, that is for the PCB amendment, said that! [almost any use ether than in PCS contamination had led' (closed electrical equipment, Federal agencies to advise the! land by Oct. 1. 1979. its manu public "not to eat the fish from j facture for dosed systems as the Hudson River. Lake On-j [well. The Environmental Protec tario, Lake Michigan. Pensa tion Agency would be allowed cola Sound and the Milwaukee | to grant exemptions from these and Ohio Rivers. - {two provisions if the agency Sneaking for the amendment, (determined that no unreapii- RerVcscntative Robert L. leg- _ !able risk was involved.