E 774 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð Extensions of Remarks April 4, 1995 causing reproductive failure, birth defects, DIDATES.ÐWithin 18 months after the enact- Proudly surrender lunch developmental impairment, hormonal dis- ment of this section, the Administrator shall Kids of America ruption, behavioral disorders, immune sup- complete a report to Congress on nonpoint Nutrition's not for you pression, and cancer at low doses, and mix- sources and industrial discharges of Sacrifice for the rich few tures of these substances may cause these ef- organochlorine compounds and their byprod- When tummies hurt fects at even lower doses; ucts and metabolites into water. The report Go to bed (3) regulatory approaches that permit even shall include a listing of all types or cat- Be a soldier limited production and discharge of toxic egories of nonpoint sources and industrial And play dead substances that persist and/or bioaccumulate organochlorine discharges into water and The F22 then result in the accumulation of these sub- their byproducts and metabolites. The report Might rescue you stances in the environment and food chain shall also include a listing of the annual The Sea Wolf sub over time and subsequent damage to the quantities of each organochlorine compound Might bring hot grub health of humans and other species; discharged into water nationally and by per- (4) the most favored method of preventing mitted facility, together with a list of each Now hear this the continued contamination of the environ- permitted facility's location and quantities There is a fiscal crunch ment from persistent or bioaccumulative of combined organochlorine compound dis- This nation needs your lunch toxic substances is to phaseout their produc- charges into water. The report shall contain Pledge allegiance to the flag tion and/or use over time and replace these recommendations for achieving a zero dis- Mobilize your own brown bag substances or the processes that produce charge policy for important categories of The enemy deficit them, or both, with safer alternatives; organochlorine pollution sources. In order to Must be defeated (5) among the persistent and/or develop such recommendations, the Adminis- Nutrition suicide squads bioaccumulative toxic substances of greatest trator shall convene an advisory panel. The Are desperately needed concern are organochlorines discharged in advisory panel shall conduct public hearings Kids of America the production of pulp and paper as a result and solicit public and expert comment. The There is a fiscal crunch of the use of chlorine or any other panel shall consist of 15 members, including This great nation chlorinated oxidizing agents in the pulp and at least 1 independent expert in each of the Now needs your lunch. paper manufacturing process; fields of public health, occupational health, (6) the Great Lakes Water Quality Agree- technology change, toxics use reduction, and f ment between the United States and Canada ecology, 2 affected citizens, and technical concludes that ``the discharge of toxic sub- and policy experts from industry, labor, pub- TESTIMONY OF LIU XINHU stances in toxic amounts be prohibited and lic interest groups, and State environmental the discharge of any or all persistent toxic agencies. HON. FRANK R. WOLF substances be virtually eliminated''; and ``(d) DEFINITION.ÐFor the purposes of this OF VIRGINIA (7) in the Sixth Biennial Report on Great section, the term `zero discharge' means ab- Lakes Water Quality, the International solutely no output or release, including IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Joint Commission on Great Lakes Water nonpoint source output or release, into Tuesday, April 4, 1995 Quality concluded that ``the concepts of vir- water. The term `zero discharge' does not tual elimination and zero discharge are con- mean a less than detectable output or re- Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, I sub- sistent and a clear statement or direction to lease.''. mitted for the RECORD the testimony of three take to achieve the Agreement's purpose. f survivors of the Chinese laogai. The witnesses The overall strategy or aim regarding per- testified before the International Relations sistent toxic substances is virtual elimi- DON'T SWINDLE THE CHILDREN'S Subcommittee on International Operations and nation, and the tactic or method to be used LUNCHES AWAY to achieve the aim is through zero input or Human Rights on April 3. discharge of those substances created as a re- The stories are powerful accounts of brave sult of human activity. HON. MAJOR R. OWENS Chinese men and women who have suffered (b) ZERO DISCHARGE OF ORGANOCHLORINE OF NEW YORK tremendously because of their religion or polit- COMPOUNDS, BYPRODUCTS, OR METABOLITES.Ð IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ical views. Today, I am submitting the testi- Title III of the Federal Water Pollution Con- mony of two more survivorsÐMr. Liu Xinhu, Tuesday, April 4, 1995 trol Act is amended by redesignating section who was imprisoned at the age of 13 because 519 as section 520 and by inserting the follow- Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, the final word his father was a so-called counter- ing after section 518: has not yet been said about the Republican ``SEC. 519. DISCHARGE OF ORGANOCHLORINE revoluntionary and Palden Gyatso, a Tibetan COMPOUNDS, BYPRODUCTS, OR swindle of the children who receive free monk who spent 33 years in the laogai. I hope METABOLITES. lunches in the schools across our Nation. But my colleagues and the American people will ``(a) ZERO DISCHARGE.Ð(1) Effective 5 years the final, most authoritative figures have been be enlighted and moved by these stories. after the enactment of this section, each established by the Congressional Budget Of- Many people like Mr. Xinhu and Palden pulp and paper manufacturing facility shall fice. The very conservative but thorough CBO Gyatso are still suffering in China today. We achieve zero discharge into water of has estimated that the Republicans will cap- must not forget them. organochlorine compounds, byproducts, or ture slightly more than $2 billion from their metabolites formulated as a result of the use TESTIMONY OF LIU XINHU, LAOGAI SURVIVOR of chlorine or any other chlorinated oxidiz- block-granted School Lunch Program. This will My name is Liu Xinhu. ing agent in the pulp and paper manufactur- be $2 billion more to go into the tax cut for the Because my father was an official in the ing process. rich. This is a scenario filled with horror. It former government, the Communist Party, ``(2) Effective 5 years after enactment of conjures up the image of the poster where on the pretext that he would disrupt labor this section, all existing and new permits Uncle Sam is pointing his finger and saying to discipline, arrested and sent him to a ``reedu- under this Act for paper and pulp mills potential military recruits: ``I need you!'' While cation through labor'' (laojiao) prison camp which use chlorine or any other chlorinated the Republicans advocate a $50 billion in- in 1958. He was sent to the Baimaoling Farm oxidizing agent shall require compliance crease in the defense budget and turn their to serve his sentence. In 1973, having lost all with the zero discharge requirement set hope and deeply impoverished in the hell of forth in paragraph (1). backs on welfare for corporations and rich the hard labor farm, he committed suicide. ``(b) SAFE ALTERNATIVES ASSISTANCE.Ð farmers, they are saying to the children of I was born in 1945. When I was 13 years old Within one year after the enactment of this America: ``This nation needs your lunch.'' in 1958, because I was the eldest son in the section, the Administrator shall evaluate al- THE NATION NEEDS YOUR LUNCH family of a counter-revolutionary, the Com- ternatives to the use of organochlorines in Kids of America munist government found an excuse which the manufacturing of pulp and paper, and There is a fiscal crunch had absolutely no legal precedent, and sent shall publish a report on the transfer of tech- This great nation me to live at the same Laogai prison farm as nology in the pulp and paper industry from Now needs your lunch my father. In 1964, when I had just turned organochlorine to chlorine-free technology eighteen years old, the Communist govern- To set as a model for pollution prevention. Within ment sentenced me to two years reeducation The budget right 18 months after the enactment of this sec- through labor because of what they called Go hungry tion, the Agency shall begin providing tech- ``counter-revolutionary activities''. After For one night nical information and support to assist per- being released from the laojiao sentence at mit applicants in the use of alternatives to Don't eat the farm in 1966, I was ordered to continue organochlorine compounds in the production What we could save forced labor at the farm as a ``forced-job- of pulp and paper. Be brave placement'' (jiuye) worker. I was once again ``(c) REPORT TO CONGRESS ON Patriots stand out labeled a ``counter-revolutionary element'' ORGANOCHLORINE ZERO DISCHARGE CAN- Above the bunch in 1974 because of my ``political attitudes'', April 4, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð Extensions of Remarks E 775 and the controls over me at the Laogai pris- were also fettered with iron manacles while not yet experienced this.'' The name of this on farm were further strengthened. I was de- self-tightening handcuffs and thumb-cuffs prison guard is Sonam Tsering; he was still tained straight through until my release in were used to tie our hands and thumbs. The on duty when I escaped from Tibet. Such is 1983. During the twenty-five years I spent in sharp edges on those handcuffs often resulted the conduct of the police, who we are also the Laogai, I suffered innumerable beatings in prisoners hands getting cut completely told are humanitarians.