European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Dod May s Friday augusts 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 / overseas child Congress wonders if needs Are me by William j. Bartman Washington Bureau Washington the defense department is considering a study of Over seas military child care that a key Mem Ber of a congressional defense committee advocated this week. Rep. Beverly Byron d-md., who chairs the House armed services Man Power and personnel subcommittee said tuesday a study is necessary to de Termine if child care needs Are being met for the 40 percent of . Servicemen Bers living overseas. An aide to Byron said the study could be done by the Pentagon or the general accounting office Congress main investigating service. While the study is being considered no official decision has been made said an assistant to Deputy assistant Secre tary of defense Barbara Pope who Over sees family and education issues. The Gao already has completed a study of military Day care in the United states focusing on capacity. While the report has not been released the Agency has revealed some of its key findings. Of 215 installations surveyed 185 have waiting lists totalling 25,000 Chil Dren with 1,000 of those on the lists being from women expecting children. Operating costs for the Pentagon s child development Center program worldwide totalled $134.3 million in Fis Cal 1987. About one third of the funds came from congressional appropriations with the rest from non appropriated funds As fees paid by parents. The Gao found stateside military child care capacity increased 82 percent since fiscal 1984, including child development centers and family Day care Homes. Capacity of the centers was up about 25 percent while the family Day care Home program capacity increased More than 600 percent. Despite the growth the Gao said there is not enough Center based care to meet the needs of Active duty service members. And civilian employees have to wait for spaces available after All Mili tary personnel have been served. The Issue leaves the Pentagon an Congress with serious budget decisions regarding Day care appropriations according to the Gao. Members of Byron s committee among them reps. Sonny Montgomery d-miss., and Bill Nichols a Ala. Have called child care an Issue whose time has military Roundup we Brucken based Wing will compete in air meet we Brocken a West Germany members of the 26th tac recon Wing will com Pete in the worldwide reconnaissance air meet 88 to be held aug. 16-26 at Bergstrom fab Texas. The Competition tests flight planning aircraft generation air Crew ability to photograph an assigned target and imagery interpretation and team ability to identify and interpret a target. Maintenance Crews will be judged on aircraft maintenance management including technical order compliance aircraft appearance and tool kit condition. The 1988 event will Mark the we Brucken based Wing s first appearance in the Competition. Also scheduled to compete Are tactical reconnaissance units from the West German and australian air forces other . Air Force units and teams from the air Force Reserve and the air National guard. A 48-member team from Wei Brincken will leave monday for the event. About 40 support people Are set to leave thursday. The Wei Brincken unit is the Only . Tactical reconnaissance unit in Europe. Training workshops set in Naf risk management Schwet Zingen West Germany risk management program training workshops rescheduled next week in Stuttgart Kaiserslautern and Frankfurt for Community financial manage ment personnel. The risk management program covers the Basic policies and principles governing the army non appropriated fund centralized property and casualty insurance program. The objective of the program is to provide Broad insurance Protection to army non appropriated fund assets atthe lowest Cost said Dave Matthews at the Usa eur Community and family support Agency. Those interested in attending the Stuttgart workshop on aug. 9 should Contact Graham Meyer at ets 421-2357 or 2756. For the Kaiserslautern workshop on aug. 10, Contact Adele Arnald ets 483-8413 or 8318. The Frankfurt workshop will be aug. 11. Those interested should Contact Lerry Melton ets 320-5620 or 6506. 77 motorists killed in Spanish vacation Rush Madrid Spain a excessive Speed and unsafe passing caused accidents that claimed the lives of 77 people on Spanish highways during the recent four Day Rush to and from vacation spots traffic officials said tuesday. Another 67 people suffered serious injuries and 78 minor injuries in the 62 traffic accidents that occurred from july 29 through aug. 1, traffic department spokesman Francisco Altobano said. Last year 113 people died in 80 accidents during the comparable four Day period Altobano said. 2 states $33 million settlement slam dunks illegal dumpers Boston a a $33 million settlement with 48companies Over illegal dumping in Massachusetts and new Hampshire will slam Dunk those who Don t follow regulations in disposing toxic waste an Environ mental official says. The settlement was part of a civil complaint file wednesday by the environmental Protection Agency in . District court seeking damages from 25 other companies that allegedly were involved in the illegal dumping and did not cooperate with Federal officials. We re sending a message that says if you illegally dispose of illegal waste you re going to get found you re going to get caught and you la have to pay Forit said Daniel s. Greenbaum commissioner of Massachusetts department of environmental Quality engineering. Part of the agreement the culmination of a nine year joint state and Federal investigation includes the largest Cost recovery Ever achieved under the . Superfund Law. This should slam Dunk them illegal dumpers to the fullest extent of the Law said Michael Deland thee a s regional administrator. We re saying we can t tolerate this the $33.1 million settlement is described technically As a proposal because Federal Law requires a 30 Day Public comment period although the parties involved already have agreed to the conditions. The settlement involves major companies that were customers of cannons engineering corp. Hazardous waste Sites in Bridgewater and Plymouth mass., and in Nashua and Londonderry . Among the companies Are Globe newspaper Polar Oid Monsanto Atlantic Richfield general electric and clean harbours of Braintree and Natick. The settlement Calls for the recovery of $17 million in cleanup costs spent by the government at the Sites the largest recovery amount in superfund history. The settling parties also agreed to clean up three of the fou Sites work estimated to Cost $16.1 million. The clean up is already under Way at the fourth site. In Washington assistant attorney general Roger j. Marzulla of the Justice department s land and Natu ral resources division said the four Sites involved some of the most urgent hazardous waste problems in new England and the government took decisive a cannons which has gone out of business is one of the companies that has refused to Settle with Federal officials and is named in the complaint. In 1980, state officials revoked cannons hazardous waste License because of alleged reporting and Hazar Dous waste violations. Five people associated with cannons including j. Scott Cannon one of the own ers served Brief terms in state prison according to Epa spokesman Michael Thomas. The Epa previously reached $14.6 million in settlements with companies responsible for smaller amounts of waste dumping. Although cannons con ducted the illegal dumping without notifying its customers superfund Law holds that All parties connected with illegal dumping of hazardous waste Are liable for cleanup costs. Energy chief urges construction of nuclear reactors in , Idaho Washington a Energy Secretary John Herrington recommended thursday that two new nuclear reactors producing the raw materials for nuclear weapons be built in South Carolina and Idaho. Herrington told a news conference that a state of the Art heavy water reactor to be built at Doe s Savannah River Complex near Aiken s.c., would be Ca Pable of producing All the tritium needed to meet de Mand. A second smaller reactor that could be expanded if tests Are successful would be built at the Idaho nation al engineering Laboratory at Idaho Falls. The two reactors would Cost an estimated $6.8 Bil lion and would take about 10 years to Complete. With this approach we have increased Assurance that we can have the reactor capacity we need on schedule and that no single external event or generic technical Issue can cause a total shutdown of our tritium production capacity Herrington said. Earlier thursday sen. James Mcclure a Idaho said he was confident that the planned Gas cooled test reactor at Idaho Falls eventually would be expanded into a full scale production reactor. But sen. Strom Thurmond , and some other senators said the Money to finance an expansion might not be available. The Savannah River reactor will be the no. 1 priority said sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., who had helped South Carolina lawmakers lobby for the project. Nunn chairman of the Senate armed services committee said the Idaho reactor would be a backup Thurmond said Savannah River is the most Logi Cal Choice for a new production reactor because of its existing infrastructure its wealth of trained and dedicated personnel and the unwavering support it enjoys on the Federal state and local sen. Ernest f. Hullings d-s.c., said Savannah is simply the Best site because it has the needed support facilities the proven technology and experienced first rate that reactor will Cost an estimated $2 billion to $4 billion to build. An Energy department advisory Board concluded last month that construction of a new heavy water reactor at Savannah River provided the bes Chance of ensuring an adequate and uninterrupted Supply of tritium a key ingredient in nuclear weapons. The department has four aging production re actors three at Savannah River and one at the Han Ford reservation in Washington state
