European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday january 26, 1986 Epa waste cleanups called inadequate Washington up the govern ment plans cheap inadequate cleanups of some of the nation s worst hazardous waste Sites which will leave Large quantities of toxic materials in the ground an Environ mental group charged saturday. A Survey of More than 100 superfund Sites by he National Campaign against toxic hazards showed that 80 percent of the cleanup programs Call for contaminated soils to remain at the original waste Sites orto be transferred to landfills. In 60 percent of the cases Drums full of hazardous waste were to be transferred to landfills the re port report shows that Epa is choosing cheap Stopgap cleanups and ignoring safer permanent alternatives said John o con nor coordinator of the Campaign. Citizen who believe the Promise of superfund cleanup should get ready for a lifetime of cancer causing chemicals and poisoned study s author Campaign science director Henry Cole added whether the waste is left it the site or brought to a second site toxics will sooner or later see Pinto the environment. Communities will be vulnerable to chemicals which cause can cer birth defects and other diseases for generations to Agency defended its superfund re Cord saying the remedies selected a these Sites Are fully protective of Public health and the added we have a very Strong pro Gram in place to consider alternatives Tolan filling wastes where possible. Where land disposal is the selected remedy wastes Are placed in facilities meeting the stringent requirements of the resource conservation and recovery at Many Sites the Epa said it plans to evaluate ground water contamination an take further action if needed. Of the cleanup plans surveyed Only 25percent Are based on treatment methods thai destroy the wastes the environmentalists said. They also complained that the Epa has made no commitment to restoring ground water at half the Sites surveyed where Well Fields and potential ground water supplies arc 8so Sites Are included on the Epa s list of those destined for priority cleanup work under the superfund pro Agency has declared six Sites clean but one the Butler Tunnel in Pittston pa., was later put Back on the cleanup list after nearly 200,000 Gallons of toxic waste leaked from the Tunnel into the Susquehanna River. The report charged that there was inadequate action at other Sites including chemical metals Industry in Balti More where contaminated surface son was moved to a suburban Landfill and other soil containing toxic material was left on the site. The la Bounty site in Charles City Iowa where plans Call for 3,000 Loos of arsenic to be left in place which the report said threatens the nearby Cedar River. The Burnt Fly bog site in Marlboro township n.j., where the state and the Epa plan to ship poly chlorinated biphenyl to a commercial Landfill. Senate panel at a Retreat to Trade tax Reform ideas Washington up Senate finance committee members left the nation s capital on a secluded Retreat to sound each other out on tax Reform sent off with a Stern warning from president Reagan that he will veto any plan to raise taxes. Just before most of the 20-Membcr panel boarded a bus Friday for the two hour trip to Berkeley Springs w.va., Reagan me with finance committee chairman Bob Packwood and according to the lawmaker said no in As Many ways As you can say it to the idea of increased , r-ore., said he met with Reagan to make sure the president was quite firm on no new taxes no value added tax no sales taxes no business Transfer taxes no Broad based and the answer is no no no. Wedon t want any of i Host. We won t have any of those. We won t stand for any of those he will veto any of those Packwood said. Reagan wants a tax overhaul Bill that Nei ther increases nor decreases government reve Nues but there have been suggestions tha Congress include new taxes in the House passed legislation to Cut the Federal needed that background before i went into this meeting Packwood said stressing that he hoped by the Retreat s end to find out at the outer extremities the things that people will accept and what they won t accept in a lax overhaul Treasury department officials also were to attend the weekend session including Secretary Jamrs Baker. The Law makers planned to return to Washington late saturday. The finance committee expects to begin hearings this week on the tax Reform Bill passed in december by the democratic led House. That proposal watered Down Many of Reagan s suggestions and Packwood said the president reiterated his demand that the sen ate Bill be closer to his original , numerous senators have noted that the tax overhaul Bill that May emerge from the finance committee will have a Lough Lime in the full Senate where unlike the House there is virtually no limit on amendments that can be . Lloyd bunt san of Texas a leading Democrat on the committee cautioned against ruling out All lax hikes especially an Oil import suggested new taxes eventually would look better to Reagan As the budget process wore on. Bunt san also cautioned that the legislation is a monumental Bill and we should t let ourselves be stampeded into the House measure would curtail Many tax Breaks drop the top individual lax rate from so percent to 38 percent and shift some of the lax Burden from individuals to businesses. Reagan s plan would limit More deductions have a top personal rate of 35 percent and not be As Tough on corporations. New look for new York new York stale s department of motor vehicles has announced that new License plates bearing a likeness of the statue letters and numbers Are Blue 1T Liberty is and the plates Are White. Of a. Police earn Laws of grammar san Ford Fla. A police officers in Sanford and Altamonte Springs have broken the rules of Gram mar too often their Bosses complain. As a result 20 officers from the two Seminole county departments and the Altamonte Springs fire department have been sentenced to weekly sessions with a Tutor for help on grammar spelling and punctuation. Glenda Mcclure an adjunct teacher at Seminole Community College said she Hopes to train offi cers to eliminate redundancy and re Duce the time it lakes to write re ports by As much As 25 percent. In her free courses Mcclure stresses 20-word sentence length limit and urges officers to be More advice has transformed their reports from i detected a Strong smell of Cannibal sic to i smell cd cannabis or from i made con tact with someone to "1 met an Altamonte Springs officer Ron Ald Ciotti said id say she s Cut my time by half. Now my sentences Are Shorter More accurate and 7th Trident submarine commissioned new London Conn. A the Trident submarine Alaska which will carry 24 nuclear missiles was commissioned sat urday. Despite cold weather about 250 opponents of nuclear weapons demonstrated out Side a research Center where the commis Sioning was held. Many of the protesters Blo cud buses carrying guests to the Cere Mony. The protesters were removed by police. About 50 of the protesters were arrested new London police said. The coalition to Slop Trident had said i would demonstrate. The Alaska is the seventh Trident to be delivered to the Navy by the electric boat co., a division of general dynamics grown shipyard across the River from the research Center is the sole builder of the Trident the nation s largest nuclear missile firing submarine. The shipyard has contracts to build five More Trident. _ the Alaska upon Starling sea trial Las september prompted the deactivation of an older Poseidon submarine the Sam Ray Burn. President Reagan ordered the Sam Ray Burn stripped of its missile tubes in order to remain within the limits of the Salt i agreement. 2 face charges after horses starve Marlin Texas up a special prosecutor has been hired to press theft charges against two partners in a failed horse business that resulted in the starvation of about 2,000 animals. Former Robertson county District at Torney John Paschall now a Hearne de sense lawyer will try the cases against Roland Jones and . Plan Kcal co owners of horses unlimited. Jones 52, a former Meridan banker and Plunkett 33, a Marlin rancher were indicted by a Falls county grand jury Las month. The charges Stem from a $390,000 Graz ing Ducaj Between the company and rancher Louis Corpora for 1,000 horses and a Simi horse a Velli for 46 Jones and Plunkelt were indicted on six counts each of theft and one count each of executing a document by deception. It toss unlimit1 brought More than10,000 horses to Falls county 150 Miles North of Houston and leased grazing space from ranchers. The company sold the Ani Mals to the ranchers and agreed to buy them Back. The company planned to eventually Tel the animals for consumption in France court records showed. The ranchers claimed that the company was to provide feed for the horses but thai it failed to do so. When investigators we recalled to the ranch they found 2,000 horses dead or dying of starvation
