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Appendix A: Public Law 95-623, text of Sections 7 and 8
Pages 169-172

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... shall, jointly and in cooperation with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Labor, the Consumer Product Safety Commission the Council of Economic Advmers, the Council on Wane and Price Stability, the Council on Ennronmental Quality, anlother entities of the~Federal Government which the Secretary determines have the expertise in the subject of the study prescribed by this paragraph, conduct, with funds appropriated under section 308('i)
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From page 170...
... ~ the term 'health costs of pollution and other environmental conditions' means the costs of human diseases and other adverse eBects on humans which pollution and other environmental conditions are, or may reasonably be anticipated to be, responsible for causing, contributing to, increasing susceptibility to, or aggravating, including the costs of preventing such diseases and effects, the cow of the treatment, cure, convalescence, and rehabilitation of persons afflicted by such diseases, costs reasonably attributable to pain and suffering from such diseases and eBects, loss of income and future earnings resulting from such diseases and effects, adverse edects on productivity (and thus increases in production costs and consumer prices) resulting from such rliseases and eRects, loss of tax revenues resulting from such decreases in earnings and plUdUCtiVity, costs to the welfare and unemployment compensation systems an]
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From page 171...
... to assure greater responsiveness by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and other executive departments in meeting informational and analytical needs for determining the effects of employment and indoor and outdoor environmental conditions on public health.
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... , and (3) , the Secretary shall consult with and take into consideration any recommendations of the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Labor, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Council on Environmental Quality, the' National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, and the National Academy of Sciences (includ 42 USC 242m ing the' Institute of Medicine and any other unit of the Academy)
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  • product safety
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  • outdoor environmental
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  • safety commission
  • hazardous substances
  • executive order
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  • technology act
  • effects identified
  • future health
  • services research
  • executive department

  • human activity
  • oman diseases
  • economic advmers
  • appropriate medical
  • unnecessary duplication

  • intonation feces
  • production costs
  • environmental quality
  • services technology
  • including human

  • subsection referred
  • congress assembled
  • incremental reduction
  • adverse ebects
  • national committee


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