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NEW BERN SUN JOURNAL January 22, 1980 (Approximate) ( slyy- By LEE BARNES Staff-Reporter ' . Tuesday that the spilled PCB was drained, into a sand and cement mixture. , ; "The PCB was mixed into about 55 cubic Weyerhaeuser officials confirmed yards of sand and cement, which is a lot of Tuesday that there had been a PCB spill at cement," said Weyerhaeuser spokesman the New Bern facility last week. Ed Kirk. "At the present time, about 95 A spokesman for the company said that percent of the spill has been recovered and on Jan. 15, a local concrete truck backed removed in approved drums for disposal."; into one of the pulp mill's transformers, j Kirk said the Environmental Protection breaking part of the transformer op^n, Agency (EPA) had been.;, notified spilling a PCB-oil mix. "immediately" afterthespill. - ; y PCB is mixed with oil and used in "Tests are being conducted to insure Transformers as an insulation agent. PCB that all material has been removed in a -- polychlorinated biphenyls -- has been, y. manner to meet state and federal linked with cancer in laboratory animals requirements," said Kirk. "We continue and was the subject in 1978 and 1979 of to mbnitor the clean-up operation.'' , -3 A " j* intense publicity when a New York-based Kirk said the drums will hot be disposed tfirm was alleged' to have dumped y of in Craven County, but would be taken to yPCB-laced oil along 210 miles of eastern an unnamed EPA-approved site for i/N.C; roadsY'Tftv' . disposal. . V' TRUCK HIT TRANSFORMER i.1 t*\, Kirk could not say d ^y legal action; was contemplated against the concrete In the incident at Weyerhaeuser, the company that owned the truck in question. ; truck hit the transformer during repairs to ; "That's a matter involving .our legal; f the foundation of a substation building at department," he said. ithe pulp mill A Weyerhaeuser Kirk could not identify the concrete : spokesman, in a prepared statement, said company involved in the incident^"/