WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has signed legislation that includes a provision intended to document childhood and adult cancer clusters nationwide and is named after a Boise man who survived brain cancer.
Republican Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo added the provision to the Toxic Substance Chemicals Act that Obama signed during a Whitehouse ceremony Wednesday attended by Crapo and 26-year-old Trevor Schaefer.
It’s the first major overhaul of toxic chemical rules in 40 years and also includes “Trevor’s Law.”
Doctors diagnosed Schaefer with brain cancer at age 13. He believes it was caused by contaminated water.
Wednesday’s signing means his efforts over the last seven years to get a federal law to track cancer clusters have paid off.
Crapo says the law will benefit millions of people who could face cancer.
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