NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 24, 1984
Page 13
EPA asks cut in plan to burn waste at sea
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Plans to burn toxic wastes on incineration ships in the Gulf of Mexico should be cut back severely until the environmental risk is better understood, an EPA report urged yesterday.
But the report proposes going forward with four research voyages in the gulf during a one-year period to better assess the risk. The incineration vessels in this limited program would burn a total of 3.3 million gallons of highly toxic chemicals, which include PCBs and DDT.
The recommendations to top Environmental Protection Agency officials
urge that the government back off and evaluate the full-scale ocean incineration proposal that has generated enormous public opposition in Gulf Coast states and has also been devised by oceanographer Jacques Counten.
Steven Schatzow, EPA director of water regulations and author of the report, said the "EPA must build a greater level of public confidence that the agency is taking a rigorous, carefully reasoned approach in evaluating the disposal of liquid hazardous wastes."
SCHATZOW'S SUGGESTIONS for the intermediate incineration, however, drew immediate criticism from Greenpeace, an international environmental group that focuses on protecting ocean resources. The group vowed to challenge the plan through the EPA hearing process.
"The testing they need to conduct does not require burning 3.3 million gallons of toxic chemicals," said Jon Hinton, physics project director for Densu.
Under Schatzow's recommendation, firms operating the incineration ships Vulcanus I and Vulcanus II would receive special research permits allowing them to burn less than 5 percent of EFA originally proposed last October.
The permits also would ban any burning of dioxin-contaminated substances.
Last fall, the EPA tentatively proposed burning 79.7 million gallons of wastes on about 100 voyages of the Vulcanus ships. They are owned by Chemical Waste Management of Oak Brook, Ill., and its subsidiary, Ocean Combustion Service of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
IN A RECOMMENDATION that could further postpone the research voyages, Schatzow said that the permits "should be delayed until the state authority determines the burning is consistent with coastal zone management program."
Schatzow acknowledged that since the EPA announced its original plans last year, it had received thousands of protest letters.
By United Press International
House members plan attempt to kill MX missile
WASHINGTON — Seventy-four House members said yesterday that they were planning an attempt next month to kill the MX missile program, something they described as a threat. They would add little to the nation's defense.
The members, in a letter to President Reagan, said that when the defense budget bill received the House floor they would try both to eliminate the $3.1 billion the administration wants for the 10-warhead, intercontinental missile in fiscal 1985 and to rescind the money approved for fiscal 1984.
The letter was initiated by Reps. Nicholas Mavroules, D-Mass, Charles Bennett, D-Fla, and Joseph Addabo, D-N.Y. Both Bennett and Mavroules sit on the House subcommittee on defense appropriations. They said that the House should consider month when the House considered the fiscal 1985 defense authorization bill.
The House Armed Services Committee, which recently finished work on the authorization measure, fended off attempts to scrap the MX program, but in seeking budget cuts reduced the number of members of the missiles to 30 for fiscal 1985.
The administration plans to install the missiles start in 1986 in existing
missile silos in Nebraska and Woming.
"The administration is fixed in the belief that one nation can achieve nuclear superiority." Mavroules said. "We need to achieve effective deterence. But, in fact, the MX does not contribute to that deterence.
"The MX further drains money away from other military programs vital to our national defense," he said. "It can no longer be justified on the basis of military or arms control requirements."
The group, noting $200 billion annual budget deficits and an administration defense budget request of $305 billion, told Reagan the problems of budget
deficits made it "essential that our defense priorities be prudent, rational and contribute to the effectiveness of our national security capabilities."
The members wrote that while they supported many defense initiatives, "The burden falls upon Congress to resist weapons systems which are designed to maintain a standpoint of military capability, unnecessary. The MX is such a system.
"While many rationales have been offered on behalf of MX, the actual deterrent value of the system is negligible. We believe that MX reduce the burden of president and necessary reduction in government spending," they wrote.
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