A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish guidelines on priorities for local educational agencies to clean up asbestos in schools, to extend the deadlines for local educational agencies to comply with certain asbestos requirements, and to amend the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 to authorize additional loans for such agencies to inspect for asbestos in schools and develop asbestos management plans.

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Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to set priorities for asbestos cleanup in schools, giving first priority to situations which pose the most dangers to human health and the environment. Requires local educational agencies to submit asbestos in schools management plans to State Governors within six months after the Administrator establishes guidelines pertaining to such plans and to implement such plans within 15 months of such guidelines. Amends the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act of 1984 to authorize appropriations through FY 1993 for loans to local educational agencies for school asbestos inspections and the preparation of management plans.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 13 April 1988

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