2009-05-19

Protection of Children From Environment Health Risks and Safety Risks

http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/eo/eo13045.htm

Executive Order 13045--Protection of Children From Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks

[Federal Register: April 23, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 78)][Presidential Documents][Page 19883-19888]From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov][DOCID:fr23ap97-130]

(a) shall make it a high priority to identify and assess environmental health risks and safety risks that may disproportionately affect children; and

(b) shall ensure that its policies, programs, activities, and standards address disproportionate risks to children that result from environmental health risks or safety risks.2-203.

``Environmental health risks and safety risks''mean risks to health or to safety that are attributableto products or substances that the child is likely tocome in contact with or ingest (such as the air webreath, the food we eat, the water we drink or use forrecreation, the soil we live on, and the products weuse or are exposed to).

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