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BS8** OQNXMT ft IO SOO S. 11.000 OCT 1 1976 <$** GREENWOOD PLANT PCB Fluid Use To Be Halted y COLUMBIA, 8.C. (AP)-The IKuril manager of company that product! powir capacitor! for Dow Chemical Co., coKt about 2S par cant more than PCBa, but hat a longer Ufa and la lata hatardoua to Identified u aource af PCBa bund In the lake. Metric utiUtlee uld Thuraday tbo Arm will atop mini PCB Inauiating fluid Nov. 1, and that It will ba only a mattar of time before PCB produoAon It haltad altogathar. the environment. Some it In ute now, ba tald. Health offldala In South Carolina and Georgia have warned that eating The property ownert uy the PCB contamination hat earned a lowering of property valuet and a lota to Profit! to bualneaaaa along tha lake. RH Kalth of the Oraanwood plant of Plttaburgh bated McGraw-Edleon Co., tald hit Ann It canrartlnf from PCBa (polychlorinated blphenyla) to a mate anviraomantally tale fluid Company offldala mada tbt announcemaat almultaneoualy at news oanfarancm In Columbia and Pittaburdh Kaalrtah itald Congraaa bat paaaad leglalation that would ban production at tba highly hade PCBa by 1W*. Ha tald Iht ieglalatleo It awaiting Prattdant Pord't algnature. Be tald Edtaol, derelepad by the (lab taken from Lake Hartwell, located on the South CarolinaGeorgia Una, may ba hatardeua became of high levelt of PCBa. Kalth aald PCBa am auapactad cancer earning ebemteale. Other dangere to Indlvtduala are birth defect! and akin ruble, he tald. A 1 billion tu/hat been Bled - again* the Monafcto Co. of St Loula and the singamo Electric Oe. af Plckena, S.C., by Lake Hartwell properto ownera la Georgia and South enroll - Sangamo. which utea PCBa manufactured by Manianto. hat beta PCBa began to g, auapactad if havtag undealrabla charactarlatlca In liTO, leading to raaearch Into aafu flulda, aald Keith. EdlaoL wMchto baa toulc, la one of aeveral altarnaUvea that have bean toatad, ha aa*. McGraw-Edlaon'a cuatamara are utility companlea inch aa Duka Power Co. and South Carolina Electric and Gu Co. he aald, 1 Initial reaction to Edlaal among McGraw-Edlaon'a utility company cuatomenhaa bean good, but thinla atlO wide me of PCBa. be aald. ' BOks 051172