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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Oct 2 DOC NMA090 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior GLADWIN HILLSpecial York Superior By GLADWIN HILSpecial Dumping New Pg to The - file Times Times Current ; Oct 2 1974 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior By GLADWIN HILL - i Special to The New York Times . WASHINGTON Oct. 1 - Steel Corporations produces 16 medical : Michigan Minnesota and Wis- cent of the country's iron consin asked the Supreme It has challenged adverse * Court today to order an testimony against its | diate end to the Reserve Min- discharges and has said that the . ing Company's dumping of iron conversion would cost ore waste into Lake than million Superior The on the ground that thousands The United States Court of ' of people were being daily ex- AlapspteaJlusnefo4r tghreanEtiegdhtthheCirccoumi-t posed to causing con- pany a day stay of the shut- taminants in drinking water down order The full Supreme The - Environmental Protec- Court refused on July 11 to tion Agency the leading co- plaintiff in prolonged litigation the stay On Aug. 28 the : against the company did Appeals Court made the stay - join in the request Agency of indefinite Seen Irreparable Harm Seen - because said that thistechnicality technicality of because a legal technicality and that the Government could the file a separate appeal The states filed their accused motion today accused the company of being in de- court stipu- motiopnosed onnumheealrthoushazards on feared hazards . with Associate Justice Harry A. health hazards feared the hazards health Blackmun who has jurisdiction the indefinite circuit stay over the eighth Federal ofof indefinite ' children continued babies The motion seeks to vacate children and exposure to carcino- lower court's indefinite stay children babies , an order to the mining gens causing substan- in the water they discharge drink poafny t67o,00s0totponistsodfaitlayilings and the air they breathe begins from processmay taketheir years the lake Tailings Contain Asbestos the motion said The situation The tailings some ground clearly presents the irreparable microscopic size contain and compelling circum: among other pollutants stances which this court has tos which in some indicated are factors justifying stance has been found to vacation of stay orders Kirk 2d . cancer According to medical Alan G. the Environ- evidence in mental Protection Agency's Agency's top reported weeks even household relatives officer said Depart- of people exposed excessively of Justice which has to asbestos can develop the represented the agency in the ease . litigation refrained from join- After five years of Federaling in the petition now because proceedings against the com- felt that the formal legal pany the United States District record was incomplete He said Court in Minneapolis ordered States District Judge the plant shut until it could Lord who issued the convert to land waste original shutdown order had posal The company refinery been on circuit assignments _ at Silver Bay 56 miles east and had had a chance to Duluth Minn sign certain orders called for The company a joint venture the subsequent court rul- _ of the Armco and Republic Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission