The act implements recommendations the commission presented to the committee in January. Additionally, it reestablishes the commission, whose work ended in January.
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The Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission is tackling what has been mostly ignored for two decades, despite hundreds of guardsmen and women claiming devastating illness from exposure to chemicals at the base.