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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1971 July 10
DOC NMA055
DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - 70 Concerns Here are Cited as Polluters
70 Concerns Here Cited as Polluters
By EDWARD AURKS York Times Current Jul 10 1971 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Tirues 1851 - 2002
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70 Concerns Here .
Cited Polluters
By EDWARD C. BURKS
The Department of Air Re
sources reported yesterday a
-
record crackdown on industrial.
air polluters here with the be-
ginning of cause proceed-
.
ings against 70 plants
Deputy Commissioner Fred
C. Hart said the department :
-
was still sending out the shows
eventually cause orders which
:
will total 125
et
We have never done any:
thing of this magnitude as far
as industrial polluters ara con- -
cerned he said
uta
: The cause notices in-
struct the violators to send -
representatives to a hearing in .
the department ofices at 51
Astor Place to explain why an
order should not be issued to -
close seal or
down the of-
fending equipment In the first bbatacthch of 70
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City Moves Against 70 Plants In a Crackdown on Air Pollution
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orders plants were cited in
every borough including smelt-
Eng operations dyers asbestos _ and chemical companies
Most separateseparte of operated relatively separate companies
relatively small But Mr. Hart emphasized that the pollution 1 involved was not just smoke soot and grime but in a number of cases included exotic_pol- exotic_pol-
chemicals and fumes that could be far more dan-
. gerous
The department also said that
plants not yet officially served
Hearings have already have already
been
. set up through the first week
of August
_ The first hearing yesterday
morning involved Nassau
Smelting and Refining Company
on Staten Island Hart said
. that as a result of the hearing
an agreement had been reached
company with the
on a schedule
for its compliance with pollu-
code regulations
The second hearing scheduled for yesterday afternoon was for National Dye Works
Inc. of Ridgewood Queens Mr.
Hart said but no one from the
company showed .
Mr.
detailed the chro-
nology of the stepped activ-
ity against industrial polluters
Months ago an Air Resources
Department man task force headed by Ben Radzka and including engineers and in-
spectors was set up to iden tify the problem and to con-
centrate on the worst industrial
offenders
Starting last February and continuing through May the
task force mailed out notices to
the 250 worst offenders pointing out violations and giving
the companies 30 days to comply with regulations Half of
those notified complied suf-
ficiently to get off the black-
mmeenntt according to the depart-
It is against the remaining 125 alleged offenders that the department is now moving with 70 of the notices already
campaign sent out The new
goes far beyond another meth-
od used by the department-
the issuing of a summons
which can result in a fine of
25 to 200 in court
Under the cause pro-
cedure the department is em-
powered to require a schedule for compliance or issue an or
der sealing the equipment
closing it down until compli
ance
ing and
National
Works
the companies that have re-
ceived cause notices fol-
MANHATTAN
Henry A. Wolfe ason Int
Amoco Printing Advertisers Offset Corp.
Leather Allast
Specialty Co.
W. & : Baum Bronze Contractors Cd
Helman Inc.
Valiant Metal Weehawken Weehawken
Products N. J.
Comm
Vinyl Bonded Products
home
Fincit Jewelry Casting
D'Angelo's Furniture Co.
Suits Laundry
Sidler Brothers Furniture Inc.
,p
office
Sherron Motal Manufacturing Goods United
Motal
Goods
ManuMfanaucftaucrtuirnigng Manufacturing
Manufacturing and Finishing
Jaymee Dyeing WVaolgluePanel
Corp. Inc.
QUEENS
Paragon Smelting Corp.
Kent Dry Cleaners Whitestone
Co.ICo.ncInc. .Inc.
ManikinManiMkiannikin Co. Long & A. F.
Exhibit Exhibitors
Manikin
Co.
Island City
National Kosher Hebrew
Landaw
Metal Products
Foods
Inc. Inc.
Syntex Products THE .
Bustelo Motel Inc. Division Coffee Co.
BRONX
Inc. Long Island City .
of Beech Columbla Asphalt Corp. Flushing
Acrite
:
BROOKLYN
Resticas
Contracting MacMaascpashpahlatlt
ContractingContracting
Co.
Products
Flushine Inc. Rockaway
Contracing Beach
| Jet Asphalt Co. Flushing
Frank Mascall Construction Co.
Hedaya Brothers
Island City
McGuire Stolnglas
Jullus BrothersLong Star
Corp.
Thermometer Star CSortuogaltendglasCsorrCuhgraomtieudm Asbeka ABsabbeystos Bitrile Tannenbaum Machining Corp
Ace Dye
Works Inc.
Carrlene Co. division U.
Industries
LighItndiunsgtries Brookden Locksmith and Co. Universal Ciner Chemical and Refining
Universal Enterprises Scottex Inc.
CorpCorp..
| Corrugated Tannenbaum
Studia
United Coating
Electric
Box Co. Inc. uspeth .
Lithographic
Corp.
Inc. also know 89
Inc.
Electric Sion Co. Inc. Maspeth Enterprises also known as Cofire
FiFisscher cher Knitting KaltKalt Finishing
Morsid industries Inc.
Flushing .
STATEN Corp. Indepndet
Chemical
Corp.
Graphic Displays Ltd.
DiDioonnddalaele
National Co. Roval Yarn and Dyeing Corp.
Products The USMP
, Inc. Co. Inc.
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