NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 24, 1984
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Bill would urge action on EDBs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Two congressmen introduced legislation yesterday that would direct the Environmental Protection Agency to set immediate enforceable limits on EDB residues in food.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., chairman of the House subcommittee on health and the environment, and Rep. Dennis Eckart, D-Ohio, said their bill would speed up a current time-consuming regulatory process for setting limits to the EPA said could take in five months.
EDB is known to cause cancer in animals.
WAXMAN SAID the pesticide industry, by appealing the agency's newly proposed limits, could drag on the regulatory process for years.
"We are concerned that these lengthy procedures jeopardize the confidence of the public in its food supply," he said at a news conference.
On Feb. 3, the EPA set voluntary national guidelines for state officials to use in determining safe levels of herbicides and killing substance in grain-based food.
The agency lacked power to set enforceable federal limits because of a government decision in 1856 to exempt
EDB from residue limits set by the government.
ON WEDNESDAY, the EPA published a formal notice in the Federal Register announcing proposed tolerance levels for the chemical. The notice also was intended to revoke the 1956 exemption.
The exemption was based on a presumption that EDB residues would not carry over into processed foods, but more sensitive measuring tools developed since then can measure residues in food.
The mandatory standards would be effective in 30 days if left unchallenged
Waxman said hearings would be held
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border with Zambia. UNITA has controlled the 620-mile frontier for the past year.
The official Angolan news agency, ANGOP, only referred yesterday to minor skirmishes against the rebels, who operate in about two-thirds of the oil-producing country, in central Bie province.
The legislation would give the EPA broad new power to act immediately to revoke an exemption and to set a tolerance level for any pesticide, not just EDB, that poses an imminent hazard to public health.
TROOPS LED "by great contingents of Cubans with tanks, MIGs and modern Soviet helicopters" began an "offensive of great proportions" against UNITA positions on the east Tuesday, a rebel statement said.
Angola, which has about 25,000 Cuban soldiers, said last week that it would accept a "symbolic" U.S. presence in the bilateral commission that would monitor the Namibian border truce with South Africa.
BUT IN THE PAST Angola has always delayed announcing major military actions against the rebels and has not that they have South Africa support.
THE EPA DID not request the legislation, he said, but: "I can't see why they wouldn't support legislation like this."
There was no independent confirmation of the Angolan offensive, which UNITA said was aimed at regaining control of its southeastern
LISBON, Portugal — Cuban-led government forces backed by tanks and war planes have opened a major offensive against insurgent strongholds along the African nation's border. Angolan guerillas said yesterday.
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In addition, the bill would direct the
authority to revoke the exemption for bill
584.
In reprisal, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) warned that its rebels would not cooperate with a U.S. sponsored African Africa and Angola on the border with Pretoria-administered Namibia.
Angola demanded that South Africa cease supporting the rebels as part of its war against them.
next week on his proposal. He called for swift action on the bill and said it was possible his legislation might be passed. But he also said EPA changes could be put into place.
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