University Daily Kansan, June 15, 1983
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Although KU officials paid $10,000 last week to the Environmental Protection Agency for violations of federal toxic waste regulations, the University of Kansas's problems with dangerous waste are not over yet, a KU official said yesterday.
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The University eventually will spend about $100,000 in its efforts to comply with EPA guidelines, said Rodger Orede, director of support services for the university.
MEANWILE, SOI, testing continues in a West Campus storage area, one of the places where the toxic waste poly-chlorinated phenyls, or PCBs, are covered.
Of this sum, the Board of Regents has allocated $75,000, which will be available July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
Corrective action began soon after the discovery of PCBs by EPA inspector Ruben McCullers during a visit last January.
we are still running lab tests to make sure that the area is safe."
Cleanup of the contaminated soil “is
90 percent complete,” said Ooke, but
"We have already spent over $5,000 to clean up the soil," he said, "and all material contaminated or suspected of having been put in 59-gallon drums."
The maintenance area on West Campus, north to northwest of the KANU transmitter, has been used for years to store heavy equipment, discarded junk and electrical transformers that use PCBs to preserve and insulate transformer oil.
EPA regulations state that transformers whose oil contains 50 parts of PCBs per million must be inspected with a third-party company with that mixture must be identified.
MCCCULLERS SAID the highly contaminated soil probably had been there several years prior to 1880, the year the Toxic Substance Control Act went into effect.
PCBs can cause severe skin irritation and are suspected to be carcinogens. But dangers depend on the concentration. They can occur in which they are mixed in transformers.
OROKE ESTIMATED that 200 55-gallon drums would be needed to haul the contaminated soil, contaminated protective gear and contaminated material generated during the removal of three transformers from Kanaas Memorial Stadium.
McCullers said he was pleased with KU's response to the problem.
Those transformers, their roofs and accompanying wooden structures were removed soon after McCullers discovered during the January inspection that the transformers were leaking an oil-PCBs mixture.
The University uses PCBs as an oil additive in about 50 large transformers and 350 smaller transformers and capacitors. Oroke said.
McCullers said both sites had limited access and had been identified as "potential hazards," not "actual hazards."
OF THE FIVE violations for which the University was originally fined $33,800, the West Campus storage site and two major problems," McCollars said.
Other violations listed in the EPA fine, issued April 15, were record keeping, labeling of toxic materials and construction specifications for waste
"The records were incomplete and
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the PCBs were not properly identified." McCullars said.
The University has since revised its record-keeping system and labeling methods, he said.
MCCULLERS ALSO SAID the University was cited because the transformers did not have structures to contain leaked or spilled PCBs.
Oroke said that proper protective structures had been installed since and that the University spent more than $5,000 to construct a weatherproof building for large equipment stored on West Campus.
After taking numerous steps - to correct the various violations, University officials decided to appeal the $53,800 fine in mid-April.
The University's legal counsel and EPA officials met and ultimately decided to reduce the fine from $53,800 to $10,000.
'We are satisfied with the progress which University officials have made and with their commitment to remedy the situation,' McCullers said.
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