Reid Bill

In addition, the Reid Bill contained other provisions that could have potentially affected electronics. Manufacturers, processors, or importers of products containing more than 1% lead by dry weight would have been required to notify the government as to the type of products... 

From 1992 to 1996, the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS), a not-for-profit cooperative research consortium of more than 200 North American manufacturers, national laboratories, and universities, carried out a multiyear effort to develop Pb-free alternatives to Pb-based solders used for electronics assembly [2]. The proposed Reid bill, banning or taxing the use of lead in electronics, sensitized the microelectronics industry to the possible need to remove Pb from solders, and led to the formation of this project. The total cost of the research project was 10.6 million, with approximately 1 million coming from Department of Defense funds and the balance from in-kind contributions. Participating organizations and primary technical contacts are presented in Table 1. 

In retrospect, the 1948 act is often described as a forerunner of today s complex regulatory system, the first federal law to address water pollution comprehensively. But it was, at best, an opportunity missed. The severe verdict pronounced by Kenneth Reid— 5 years hence we will be forced to admit that the present bill was a failure 25—turned out wrong only in the timing. Like the pesticide act enacted the previous year, the Water Pollution Control Act manifested the federal government s refusal to invoke its powers against the growing problem of chemical pollution. ... 

Oak Ridge Nationai Laboratory Dan Ingersoll, Dave Williams, Dane Wilson, Bill Corwin, Lowell Reid, John-Paul Renier, Larry Ott, Syd Ball, Joel Chesser... 

For example the Reid-Lieberman bill (1991) dealing with lead in paint and solders the Waxman bill (also 1991) banning lead use in pipes and piping and the Senate and House Lead Exposure Reduction Acts of 1992 1993, which in addition to further restrictions on lead use, required inventories to be drawn up of lead-containing products (with over 0.1 per cent lead). 

Hobson, Year After Oil Spill Russell Gold, Oil Drilling Rebounds in Gulf After Spill, WSJ, September 15, 2011, at Bi House Approves Measures to Expand Offshore Drilling, Expedite Permitting, 42 BNA Env. Rept. 1066 (2011) Reid Cancels Votes on Oil Spill Bills After Some Democrats Break Ranks, 41 BNA Env. Rept. 1777 (2010). 

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