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Tuesday, January 30, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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EPA announces Lawrence air doesn't meet ozone standards
ByLYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Reporter
The Environmental Protection Agency relaxed its standards for ozone pollution last week, but the air in Lawrence fails to meet the new regulations.
The EPA announced Friday that it had increased the acceptable amount of atmospheric ozone from 08 parts per million to .12 parts per million. Lawrence has recorded ozone levels as high as .14 parts per million three times in the past year.
The EPA recognizes 15 parts per million of ozone as a level that can be dangerous to humans.
Ozone is an oxygen compound formed by the combination of sunlight and the by-products of petroleum combustion. It can react with ozone in the atmosphere with other particles in the atmosphere.
Instead, Lane said, the ozone is being carried here by the prevailing south-westier winds from Gulf Coast petroleum refineries.
Dennis Lane, KU assistant professor of civil engineering, has been recording Lawrence's ozone levels for the EPA since 2003. The high levels of ozone are not produced here.
"THEERE ARE NO sources in Lawrence or Douglas County that could be producing these high levels of ozone. I think most of it came from transported in." Lane said yesterday.
Because there are no sources of zone in the area, Douglas County cannot be penalized for failing to meet the standards, according to Thomas Gillard, chief of the Air Planning and Development section of the Kansas City, Mo., EPA office.
The EPA usually penalizes counties that don't comply with air pollution standards by forcing local producers of the pollutant to use pollution-controlling devices, Gilbard said.
Other answers to Lawrence's air pollution problem will have to be considered, including Lane's theory that the ozone is drifting here, Gillard said.
OTHER KANSAS cities with high ozone levels that could be attributed to the drift problem are Kansas City and Wichita, according to Hoover Saigler, director of the Bureau of Air Quality in the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Wichita, however, may join the ranks of 12 or 14 U.S. cities with populations over 200,000 that meet the EPA's new standards, and those that meet the EPA use, Saiger said.
Wichita's ozone levels have risen above the 12 parts per million limit only once in the past two years.
At the former standard of .08 parts per million of ozone, Honolulu and Spokane, Wash., were the only two U.S. cities considered by the EPA to have clean air.
Saiger confirmed that Lawrence's ozone levels exceeded the new EPA limit three times last summer, according to a study conducted by Lane.
LANE SAID he took daily ozone measurements every hour between June and October.
"The majority of the 1,600 readings we took were way below the 12 parts per million limit," Lane said. "But you can exceed the 12 level only once a year for four months." Because we exceeded that level three times, we are technically not in compliance.
Lane said he was pleased with the study.
which will be presented to the EPA at a sanitary engineers conference on Feb. 7, because the levels recorded were, for the most part, below the standard.
Lane said he thought the EPA's move to raise the standard for ozone was good from scientific, economic and practical standpoints.
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HE DISAGREED with the danger level set by the EPA, and said he thought much higher concentrations of ozone would be needed to affect human health.
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"I think, after reviewing most of the research on the subject, that healthy humans won't feel the stress of ozone until they are exposed to it," the history of respiratory and cardiac problems may be affected at lower levels, but they're intelligent. They know what their limitations are, and they'll stay inside when they feel the ozone bothering them," he said.
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Dir. Robert Sldmok; with Burt Lau-
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Film Noir:
Wednesday, January 31
Reading and Comprehension and Test Taking
Fellini:
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1954
Dir. Federico Fellini, with Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Ita/subtitles.
NOTICE
Thursday, February 1
Di Jean-Luc Gudcad, Alain Rehnat,
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books, plus a play. Plus, "The
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FAR FROM VIETNAM
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Study Skills Enhancement Workshop You are invited to attend the following workshop:
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BLUE COLLAR
Dir, Paul Schraer; with Richard Pryar, Harvey Kellet, Yakutoto Kotte. "There are few movies around with a lot of dollars" brains and ——"Newweek."
Midnight Movie:
THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE
Dir. Jerry Garcia, Lean Gait, with the Dir. Jerry Garcia, Lost music, plus an animated sequence which features Garcia's logo, "Skeleton Uleon Sam."
(1977)
Weekend shows also in Woodruff at 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 or 12 midnight unless otherwise noted.
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud. at 7:30 unless otherwise noted.
JRP to ask for compensation
Still trade over the inconveniences caused by 10 days without full hot water service in their hall, residents of Joseph R. Pearson Hall will try to get some kind of compensation from the KU administration for their recent problems.
Dahiman asked AURH to back the compensation proposal and to approach the administration on behalf of JMP, but with little support. He returned to 7, with three representatives abstaining.
At an Association of University Residence Halls meeting last night, Bill Dahlman, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore and a JRP student, would he ask the students to provide residents with an extra hibition at the hall because of the water problems.
A holiday meal usually includes steak.
Dahman said the residents would take their proposal to either the Office of Residential Programs or the Residential Program Advisory Board sometime today.
Mary Myers, AURH treasurer, who voted against the motion that AURH represent JRP, said JRP had the power to deal with the administration directly.
"I feel we should support them but because it is a problem that affects only one ball, they should approach the administration themselves." Myers said.
He said that if AURH were to represent JRP, it would set an undesirable precedent for other halls to seek the aid of AURH.
Richard Frobl, resident director at JRP, said he had been told by Dean Milroy, physical plant director of housing, that 12 more showers would be in operation by today. This would bring the number of showers operation to 24, out of total of 48 showers.
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