SF 212

1st Engrossment - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to environment; requiring a risk evaluation 
  1.3             for certain water and air quality standards; amending 
  1.4             Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 116.07, by adding a 
  1.5             subdivision. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 116.07, is 
  1.8   amended by adding a subdivision to read: 
  1.9      Subd. 4l.  [HEALTH STANDARDS.] When establishing or 
  1.10  revising water and air quality standards, the commissioner must, 
  1.11  to the extent the information is available, determine: 
  1.12     (1) whether the standards take into account any 
  1.13  peer-reviewed, research-documented health risks to infants, 
  1.14  children, and adults, to protect the health of each group with a 
  1.15  reasonable margin of safety; and 
  1.16     (2) whether the standards adequately protect health with a 
  1.17  reasonable margin of safety by taking into consideration each of 
  1.18  the following specific risks: 
  1.19     (i) adverse reproductive outcomes; 
  1.20     (ii) respiratory disease; 
  1.21     (iii) immunologic suppression; 
  1.22     (iv) cancer; 
  1.23     (v) neurological development; 
  1.24     (vi) endocrinal (hormonal) functioning; 
  1.25     (vii) general infant and child development; and 
  2.1      (viii) any other important health outcomes identified by 
  2.2   the commissioner.