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THE WaYTT^TKEET JOURNAL, i EPA Sets RulesFriday, Oct. 22, 1976 Peking T elevisi^ ] T" fai If you are responsible for the conservation, management, control or purchase of energy for your company you should subscribe to ENERGY USER NEWS. Fairchild Publications announces its new weekly business newspaper Energy User News. It is the first and only newspaper devoted solely to reporting news of vital importance to energy users in industry. Energy User News will provide indepth but concise information tailored for the industrial energy user on such topics as: Government. Energy Technology, Conservation & Manage ment. Fuel & Power, International News, and Finance. If you want a free reading of Energy User News before deciding to become a Charter Subscriber fill in the coupon. ENERGY USER NEWS Dept. WBL 7 East 12th Street New York. NY 10003 Please send me a free copy and further details on becoming a Charter Subscriber to Energy User News. Name $ Title I Company .........................-_____ ________ Address j City I StateZip-------- . . : Hew to build a better ' industrial park building Send for our free illustrated booklet full of planning tips on . building an industrial park building that's a pleasure to own for its combined good looks and dollai For Producers Expected to Foci* ^ P Of Vinyl Chloride Air Emissions of Chemical Used in Cancer-Linked PVC Must be Cut 80% Bv a Wall Street Journal Sta}) Reporter WASHINGTON--The Environmental Pro tection Agency adopted air-emission stan dards for plants making vinyl chloride and two related chemicals. The agency said the standards, first pro posed last December, would require an 80% cut in air emissions of the cancer-linked chemicals. The standards would require the 58 exist ing makers of vinyl chloride and two sister compounds, ethylene dichloride and poly vinyl chloride, to install about $198 million of pollution-control equipment, according to the EPA. Vinyl-chloride gas is used primarily in the plastics industry to make polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, a plastic that Is widely used in consumer products and construction. It has been linked to a rare form of liver cancer found among PVC workers. Also, studies have found that the wives of PVC workers have a hlgher-than-normal rate of miscarriages, and that birth defects of the centra^ nervous system occurred more fre I quently in three Ohio communities where I PVC is made. J J Major PVC makers include a B. F. Good rich Co. unit, which reported in January j 1974 that several of its employes had died j from liver cancer linked to exposure to the j vinyl-chloride gas. Other major makers in clude Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Ten- neco Inc. The EPA said a total of 4.6 million people | live within five miles of the 58 plants. The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc., based in Washington, said the new stan dards are strict but that the industry I "pledges its best efforts to comply." The plants have 90 days to meet the new EPA standards, but can apply for an exten sion of up to two years. The agency said concentrations of the chemicals In the air around the plants ranged from one part per million to three parts per million in 1974-75. The new stan dard would reduce that by 90%, or to around 0.1 lo 0.3 parts per million. There weren't any significant changes in the standard from the EPA's original De cember proposal. Both Goodyear and Goodrich, headquar tered in Akron, Ohio, and Diamond Sham rock Corp., a Cleveland-based oil and chemi cals and gas concern, said they plan to com ply with the EPA standards. In Dallas, Robintech Inc., a maker of polyvinyl chloride pipe and fittings, said it already has begun adjustments to bring its facilities within the EPA standards and in tends to carry out its previous plans. It said the cost of such adjustments has already been budgeted. World Bank, Affiliate eiA-i- T .mtic a "NTn+irirtc By Robert Keatley Staff Reporter of Th Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON--China's new leaders ap parently plan to explain themselves to the world tomorrow morning. In an unusual move, Peking Television has notified Communications Satellite Corp., or Comsat, that "important TV progranis are planned to be broadcast world-wide by Peking Television" tomorrow and Monday. The half-hour broadcasts will be transmitted from Peking's two ground stations to Com sat satellites and can be received by Comsat clients, which include American television networks. In New York, officials of the three major television networks said they planned to re ceive the broadcasts, edit them and use them in regular news programs if they are newsworthy. Live broadcasts aren't planned. U.3. officials believe the broadcasts will be the first official explanation from. China of the recent purge of so-called leftist, or radical, politicians. They also expect Peking to announce its new Communist Party and government leaders following the ouster of Chiang Chtng, the late Chairman Mao Tsctung's widow, and other senior officials. A party central committee meeting is un der way in Peking, presumably to fill vacan cies caused by this leftist purge and recent deaths of several aged leaders. Some diplo mats don't expect the meeting to end before Monday or Tuesday, but the Peking tele gram to Comsat--received here yesterday rooming--Indicates enough decisions have been made so that major announcements can be broadcast. Announcement Anticipated For several days, Chinese officials In Pe king have been telling foreigners that an of ficial explanation of the purge and the nam ing of new leaders would come soon. The surprise purge, which became known last week, removed Chiang Ching plus the No. 2, 4 and 7 men from the Communist Party's ruling politburo. All were considered to be ideologically to the left of the survivors and were more concerned with political campaigns to remake human nature as pre scribed by Chairman Mao than with orderly economic growth. . They gained high office during the 1960s' "great proletarian cultural revolution," a nationwide campaign against bureaucracy and elitism, which Chairman Mao thought threatened his visions of China's future. The campaign also brought mjich economic1 dis ruption, angering many ordinary citizens, and saw the humiliation of many established officeholders. These officials apparently sought both their old Jobs back and revenge against the fast-rising "helicopters" who displaced them, and they have finally suc ceeded, now that Chairman Mao isn't around to protect the leftists. Chiang Ching and her colleagues have been charged with plotting a coup against China's premier and new Communist Party chairman, Hua Kuo-feng, Poster campaigns in major cities and street demonstrators in Shanghai and Peking are demanding stern punishment for "the gang of four," as they have been dubbed. These four, plus lowerranking leftist followers, are believed to be under arrest. Only one new appointment, that of Mr. Hua to t);e senior party post replacing Cha Chit otto: mat the ing bod; sine new mat I met Hua Pre an > also mat lsts ( will offl off! bur Pel ' nev rolt pos Lai shJ| der non lief to l Inst pro ani mit UlO son It c ten r net tmi left . OPP Iti , pie wo trit aI . wh qul wil pot th< sel is prt mi tht th* ro' ca be ne tel us tio ha po d an cl! CUSAROSS 02607