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{mwstas iom m. a m AUG 3 01975 ___ BndustMtsts CfaSm Dmfijers Q PCB H' MADISON, Wis <AP> - The state's two-day hearing this week on proposals to restrict discharge of the industrial chemical polychlorinated biphenyls, of PCits, found environmenUtists and Industrialists in a classic struggle. Environmentalists, including Lt Gov. Martin Schreiber, contend that PCR levels have reached alarming propor tions and threaten human life. They want severe controls on PCB use end disposal, if not an outright ban. Industrialists, especially paper recycling companies, claim Hie dangers of PCltS have been exaggerated and that restrictions on the discharge of the chemical could cripple vital production Commercial production of PCBs began in 1929 in electrical transformers. Over the years, increased uses were found for the chemical and it made its way into such products as piastics, paints, in sulating and hydraulic fluids, caulking compounds, inks, adhesives and car bonless carbon paper. "There's not anything Imaginable that at one time or another someone hasn't / tried to use PCBS in," remarked W.B. Papagcorge of Monsanto Chemical Co., sole producer of PCBS in tlic U S. Environmentalists were alerted to the hazards of the chemical when an out break of PCB poisoning hit Yusho, Ja pan, in the late 1960s The culprit was a batch of rice oil, a popular cooking Ingredient A leaking heat exchanger, it was later discovered, had laced the oil with PCB during the manufacturing process. Since then, federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency have urged stricter policies on the usa of PCBs The V S Department of Agriculture set tolerance levels for human consumption in various foods. Studies by tlic Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources show that PCB contamination has become ubiquitous. Fish are the most frequent carriers of the chemical. . DNR surveillance section chief Stanton KJelnert said PCBs In Brit from Green Bay, take Michigan, the upper Mis sissippi River and the Fax River near Portage exceed safe levels set by the FDA. The agency alto found shipments of carp from Lake l'epin with exceessive PCB levels, resulting in orders la halt commercial carp fishing in the lake The stale Health Devarliiiciit has warned anglers in certain areas not to et more than one fish a week because of possible danger Unsafe PCB levels have also been found In various sewage treatment plants and in Industrial discharges, particularly from paper recycling factories As a result, the DNR considered proposals to limit PCB discharge rates and to curtail the sale and use of (he chemical. The paper industry, pointing proudly to its record of efforts in the environmental cause, feels caught in a squeeze `if wc were banned from discharging any PCBs at all, with our present technology, wc would have to back aay from the use of waste paper," said Croff Collett of Consolidated Papers, tnc , Wisconsin Rapids Hit remark was echoed by other paper recycters. Limits suggested by the DNR are unreiionablc, too, they said, and would force companies to use economic ally un feasible alternatives HONS 200813 MILWAUKEE JOl'RMI, I MILWAUKEE, WJSC. Pulp Mills I 0. 350,003 SUH. 543,392 Oppose AUG 2 91975 PCB Ban I PCBs Journal Madison Bureau From pofr I Madison, Wl, - A title pro necessary and disastrous, Ness posal to limit discharges of (he said chemical polychlorinated bi Lt Gov, Martin Schrciber, phenyls (PCB) to near aero would raise economic havoc 'with the paper recycling indus try, a paper company spokes man said Thursday. 1 he statement was made by Richard W. Wand, vice presi dent of the Bergstrom Paper Co., at the first of a two dsy hearing on Department of Nat in a statement read for him, said lie hoped Ihc hearing would draw attention to the feci that while MpjLS.AnJ-fc Chennai forn.. lh* nnlv mi er~ df THTs yi Jim country, had restnetrd |is.saie In rioted utTi, it wjs * bona impntled from otKcr countr.es wilMtii ------------------------------- ure 1 Resources proposals to i AspjnFsvors Ban limit discharge* of the chemi cal to no more than 5 parts per million in 24 hour composite sample. A representative for Rep I Les Aspin (D-Wis.) said Aspin favored an outright ban on dis charges of the chemicals into It was noted at the hearing state surface waters. that 19 of Wisconsin's pulp "What recent research has and paper mitts recycle waste offered to us is a further paper, ; strengthening of the opinion of State investigators have re many federal, Wisconsin and ported significant amounts of ' other Great Lakes states agen- PCB in discharges from the [ cica that PCBs pose a potential Bergstrom and Fort Howard ' long term hazard to humans." paper Companies, which recy Aspin said in prepared testimo cle waste paper, and a Nation- ny Portage. The Bergstrom firm is lie said he would support in Necnah and Fort Howard is federal action in the matter in Green Bay. . Albert K. Forster of Madi In Carbonless Carbon son. secretary of the Wiscon sin Izaak Walton League, said The investigators trace the the organization opposed the PCB to carbonless carbon pa use of any chemicals until they pa r in which PCB has been i were proven safe. utid. I The Food and Drug Adminit- Wand said that Bergstrom ' (ration hit set a 2 5 part per had no control over the PCB mil lion tolerance for PCB in because It had never bought milk and 5 for fish, and recent any of it and that it would be ly dramatized Its concern over impossible to test all the waste the industrial chemical by seiz K accepted In order to identify ing c*rp from Green Bay and its presence. In addition, he Lake Pepin that exceeded that said, there w a no evidence mount. i thet the type of PCB found In This tolerance was based on its plant was the same type the no effect level determined found in the fatty tissue of fish from studies of Japanese fami that was causing concern for lies who suffered skin discolor regulatory agencies. ation, toes of hair and liver . Not primary Cause Howard Ness of New York, representing tha National As- trouble when PCB accidentally got into their cooking oil in I96B. aociation of Recycling Indus tries, Inc., said it would be un fair to blame the recyclera when they were not the pri mary c u t ^ of PCBs being there. HONS 200814 Zero discharge rules for such paper plants would be un- Tara Is FCBi. * 3 esf. rwwx, tiroi noBf 0 ! 000 AUG 3 0 1975 ^ 'Classic Struggle' . Develops at PCB Hearings i J HAbrtON, ttn (AP) -- The (*h neeh because possible ' iMr toe <to* hesnfffi thrt1 danger *">>.'`I*!1 t rc.^.k_l_r_-_M. .lt.. diwh*r*rt parinHwtr I (r7A PI ,[rWesrult, the DNK rwmd- i *] ^ndw^rtSSSl""! JHHrsSrft: trs asLfe,*l,:mLnf! J"*"*4""* TV noper bduiiry ^lnlln(l PC 1** dupont. u not .<^1* Ctuclit m I'juim 11- If * * btnnrd from dip ladiulri*ti<t*, cjptiitily pa-' r^r|tnC toy KS *1 til, * lIK mr reeycUn; rempaiuet, Hu* w tcchoulccv, < (V rftaec^ ( PCBt htMi ten nu|||||SW| |o back * {com twttr^cd ml iw mlrjr- w ^ 1M> lifln. w IV dtacVnaol IV-'<; CoHjj ,1 Cfcnjobatted tS'?"a* ^ "W4* ' *' Pttpen. Inc. 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