A bill to provide for a study by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare of the long-term health effects in humans of exposure to dioxins.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide for the design of a protocol for and the conduct of an epidemiological study to determine the long-term adverse health effects in persons of various populations (such as chemical, agricultural, and Forest Service workers) who were exposed to dioxins produced during the manufacture of phenoxy herbicides. Requires the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment to: (1) approve or disapprove such a protocol and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report explaining the basis of such action; and (2) monitor the conduct of such a study and submit to the committees a report on such monitoring. Directs the Secretary to submit within two years of the approval of the protocol (and annually thereafter) to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the results of such study and recommendations. Requires the President to assure that such study is fully coordinated with other studies pertaining to the health effects of dioxins.…