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/Another PCB Spill Found Near Sanford RALEIGH <AP) - A fresh strip of oily liquid, bollovod to be the latest in a trios of PCB spills on the state's roadways, was discovered Monday af ternoon along a six-mile stretch of N.C. 42 near Santord. According to state High way Patrol Capt. 0. R. McKinney, the new spin was discovered along a section of road already posted with chemical contamination warnings. He said the new inUl is about two feet wide. McKinney said officials suspect the ^lli is related to the previous spills. He said the strip has not been chemically tested. A (anker traveling the stale's highways at night is snapscted of polluting more than 290 miles of the state's roadsides with toxic PCBs, or polychlorinated btpbenois. Officials said that until Monday, no new spills had been reported in nearly Monday's spill was Uncovered Just as state environmental officials were meeting to try decide how dispose of the con taminated soil in the spills. The officials, along with representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency, mot in public and then held a private session, but failed to come up with a final propoaai for disposing of the thousands of gallons of PCBs. Robert Carter, head of the water quality division of the stats Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, said officials were considering digging one to throe inches into the soil in areas where PCB contamination is above the tolerable level of 900 ports per minion. We have retched the point where something needs to bo dene," Carter said at the meeting. This Une drawing locates the polychorinated biphenyl chemical spills an North Carolina highways. The poiaonous which reported^ causes cancer, has boon deliberately dumped on rural roads In the state. Carter said if the soil is removed, a lane area of stateowned land would be needed for storage. He said no storage sites have been elected yet. But officials said they were also considering placing activated charcoal on the spills instead of digging up the sites. Carter aid the charcoal would "fix" or bind the PCBs, precautionary measure. Hines said researchers have found that the PCBs are a type manufactured in the late 1960s by Monsanto Chemical Corp. They were used as a heattransmitting aagent in cooking sub stances such as fish meal, and In electrical tran sformers and capacitors, he said. keeping it on the surface and preventing it from being Hines said state officials are attempting to contact washed away. Carter said the charcoal treatment would slow the Monsanto for information on who might have been using the chemical. migration of PCB particles but would not decon taminate them. "We are dealing with a problem thal does not pose an Immediate medical risk." said Martin P. Hines, head of epidemiology for the Department of Human Resources. "We don't even think walking on the grass, and exposure two or three times, would pose,a risk." However. Hints said his department Is considering taking Mood and urine HONS samples from people in (he area of the* spills as a 001812 SNfUV,ft STM 0 16.334 AUG IS I'. *