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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] NY Times Op Ed: A Dangerous Idea: Eliminating the Chemical Safety Board
Date: Monday, July 24, 2017 at 8:47:33 PM
Author: Richard Rosera <richardrosera**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM> 		Next by Date:
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] NY Times Op Ed: A Dangerous Idea: Eliminating the Chemical Safety Board
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:34:51 -0400
Author: Richard Rosera

From: Monona Rossol <0000030664c37427-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] NY Times Op Ed: A Dangerous Idea: Eliminating the Chemical Safety Board
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 06:39:04 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Message-ID: 15d79542662-6afa-2491f**At_Symbol_Here**webprd-m27.mail.aol.com
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I thought when I saw that release a couple weeks ago about the senate recommending funding for the CSB that some people would think that the battle was won.   


Nothing in Washington is done until it has gone through several processes in each of the two houses and passed the President's desk.  The press reports each recommendation and proposal in this long process, but they do it in a sensational way that makes their story sound more important than it is.  The story wouldn't get any attention if the headline truthfully read:  "One more tiny baby step toward possible funding of the CSB.."   

We won't know if the CSB gets funded until the end of the process at the President's desk.  And now you also know why I need to take a pill and lie down.


Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President:  Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
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New York, NY 10012     212-777-0062

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Rosera <richardrosera**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Sent: Mon, Jul 24, 2017 8:59 pm
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] NY Times Op Ed: A Dangerous Idea: Eliminating the Chemical Safety Board

The funding of the CSB is definitely not a "done deal".  At this point, its funding has been included in the House Budget Committee's proposed appropriations.  If one appreciates that the House Budget Committee Chair is Rodney Freylinghuysen of New Jersey, and that a bipartisan majority of the New Jersey House of Representatives members supported CSB funding, this outcome is not surprising.  However, so far I have not seen any "champion" for the CSB in the Senate.  So at best continued funding of the CSB is still a work in progress.

Mr. Trump may still have the final word on the CSB.  Its five Board members must be proposed by the President, and then confirmed by the Senate for five year terms.  Currently the CSB Board only has four members, and all of their terms will expire in the first half of 2020.  So - even if funded now - without new appointments & confirmations, the CSB could effectively be leaderless by mid-2020.  Then what?

Richard Rosera
Rosearray EHS Services LLC
908-279-4463

On Jul 24, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Annesciencemom <000003fb75ba68df-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU> wrote:

I thought I read previously that CSB was funded?

Sent from my iPhone 


On Jul 24, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Secretary, ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <secretary**At_Symbol_Here**DCHAS.ORG> wrote:

FYI, there is an interesting NY Times Op Ed piece about the Chemical Safety Board at
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/a-dangerous-idea-eliminating-the-chemical-safety-board.html
 

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart
Secretary
Division of Chemical Health and Safety
American Chemical Society




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