University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 7, 1988
Anti-fume regulation unlikely before Reagan completes term
WASHINGTON — A regulation to require anti-fume devices on gas tanks of new vehicles is unlikely to be issued before the Bush administration takes office, the Environmental Protection Agency says yesterday.
The Associated Press
"Our legal requirements are that we have a public hearing, give two weeks notice minimum, and the record be open for 30 days after the hearing," said Dick Wilson, director of the NW office of mobile sources. "I think it would be pretty hard to squeeze that in in the time remaining."
Once OMB has completed its work, the proposal will be returned to EPA, which will solicit public comment on the safety issue. Wilson said.
Thomas was determined to finish up this issue before he left office Jan. 20, the last day of President Reagan's inauguration. He spoke at EPA spokeswoman, said yesterday.
The schedule outlined by Wilson conflicted with EPA Administrator Lee Thomas' intent to complete the
The plan, which the agency has been working on since 1987, has drawn criticisms from auto manufacturers, who argued the fume traps would increase the chance of fire in crashes.
regulation in the waning days of the Reagan administration.
broader package of fuel-vulatility regulations, is now under review by the White House Office of Management and Budget.
After the end of the 30-day comment period, the agency must study the record before deciding what form th regulation will take. Wilson said.
The EPA proposed the regulation after studies showed that gasoline fumes escaping while gas tanks were filled could be dangerous to health.
The agency's study is typically completed in "a matter of weeks," Wilson said.
The proposed regulation, part of a
"I don't want to buy into the theory that we're in a race against the clock," Wilson said.
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Ocean Spray to change plea Cranberry co-op first to be charged under Clean Water Act
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BOSTON — Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. will plead guilty to federal charges that it intentionally dumped hazardous waste into sewers near its fruit-processing plant in an eastern Massachusetts town, authorities said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard E. Welch III said yesterday the only possible plea change was to guilty, and “there will be pleas of guilty to negligent and willful charges.”
Ocean Spray, which pleaded innocent to the charges in February, sent a letter to the hearing Dec. 20 following U.S. District Judge Daniel Raspoli.
The cranberry cooperative declined comment on the settlement
Ocean Spray could be fined $2.1 million if convicted o
the six歼on and 72midemeanor charges that allege it discharged cranberry peelings and acids into municipal sewers and the Nemasket River from 1983 to 1987 despite being fired by Middleboro, a town 35 miles south of
The case was the first in which the government charged a company with a felony under the Clean Water
"We are working on a solution that is in the best interests of our company, our grower owners and the Middleboro community." Ocean Spray President and John Fisher John C. Liewellyn Jr. said in a statement Monday.
Despite the plea change, the possibility remains that some of the charges could be dropped, including the
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