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^Cdrpug CfoM Caller /i Thursday, February 26, 1987 ""J -i-*-* - ^ L* - . . f`>~: JHA . , *//e ujIH /Jo fe koofe. By Darla Morgan STAFF WRITER '.T ' v";/";., " " * ' ''."''-jV"/1..-'"' .- A Miller High School pipe; about --Sun Exploration and Production Co. has been : 50feet long has been.discovered fined $9,000 for violating the Texas. Clean.;Ai? / by CCISD to be ': tvrdpped in ' as Act by failing to `while demolishing 4lngleside.. control asbestos 'emissions its Redfish Bay plant near -vr. -a - b.l : bestos. ' . 1.'____________ ;;:v' ''i v*-.*. -"i.-.Meanwhile, the Corpus Christi Independent a cost of $372,881. - //School District has discovered an asbestos- But, Saavedra added, as schools "are remod ^wrapped pipe, about 50-feet long, at Miller High ' eled of renovated, workers sometimes find as-: i.School. . . .. .;,- bestos-covered pipes or tiles "hidden in the .`T- .The Sun violation occurred in June 1986, said original inspection, as was the case at Miller.' ' " Tom'Palmer,' director of the Texas Air Control .``.Very likely we will continue to discover It,". -Board regional office in Corpus Christi. ;he said. ' pr-pz<.\ __ , ' . Officials of Sun Exploration arid Production .if the asbestos is not disturbed, the emission ` Co.', a Corpus Christi firm, could not be reached level usually is too low to pose-a danger to" for comment. ; ; , -' ' occupants of a building. But according to the. ------ .rThe school district spent more than $100,000 . EPA, if the asbestos is disturbed or broken up," ` removing asbestos at Ray High School in 1985 the released fibers can' pose a threat. __ /arid more than $300,000 in 1984 removing the The administrative fine at Sun's Redfish Bay" lisubstance from several other schools. Most re- .. plant occurred, Palmer said, because the corii- ^cently, the district found asbestos during reno- pany failed to notify the state" when asbestos ------ stations at Miller, said Abe Saavedra, assistant ' was discovered while dismantling the plant. ; ! ^superintendent of support services for CCISD. .; "They had already stripped a lot of^the asbes __^"The district, he said, is planning to remove tos out of there, and it was all oyer the ground," - pihe asbestos with a contractor certified in asbes Palmer Said. . - '/.i# . tos "removal. The asbestos-wrapped pipe is lo- ---I^a'ted. .away. front. student.,,exposure,. Saavedra,, /'^'derjheTexar'clean'Ai^ .said. . ^ / / , ing br~indusunarplarit"is~8em61ish*ed'o'F'mdre' /Removing the,asbestos at Miller should not than 260 feet of asbestos^'pipb insulation: is - nearly'as expensiye.as at .Ray ..because there ~ f-is .much less surface area of.asbestos, said RayV --^ Bilyeuj who oversees maintenance for CCISD. 'vi'-The statute also requires that, only wet remov 4.'; Exposure to high levels of asbestos fibers has ` al techniques be used, aridthatno visible erriis-- been linked by 'the federal Environmental Pro1" : sions of asbestosfillers.^e'fallowed during Mecticm Agency to increased incidence of lung removal, transportation or disposai.pf.materials;; x cancer, "asbestos'is "and'' other/ respiratory 'ail- containing asbestosF;^`Fy/;/;$> --:'i merits. Asbestos, is a mineral, used as insulation for pipes and rif buildings. "> ' . Since September, "TACB irispeciors have In-; ^/.pedera} law requires school districts to survey ' ; spected 41 .sites where asbestos was being re:; - schools to determine how much, if any, asbes- moved or abated, Palmer said, 'v '- ' ' :>!' i' ` tos is present in school, buildings. ' ~'' . The $9,000 fine assessed against Sun Explora-' - ;: -The CCISD completed its survey about three tion and Production. Co. is the only major fine f.years ago. and removed all asbestos visible, to assessed, this year, he said. -.'/'`F- .^.fhe survey team, 'Saavedra said. / i- Palmer said he has recommended that anoth-. '.^'.Following those inspections, asbestos" was re-' er fine be assessed against another company for i' moved from pipes and ceilings at Tom Browne ` . its handling of asbestos, 'i r . ':arid Wyrin Seale junior high schools' Miller "That recommendation Ts'.'in "Austin" right, 'High School and Schanen Elementary School at. now," he said. v ii":; "v.;. ; . !I L iI :r ir> .1 f-4 'r! KOI8323