Document LKKEpdLXZ5Z6Y0xO3m3aBN4bd
To: J. Ortiz F.A. Provorny J.C. Weber D. Wood
From: Glynn Young
CHARLESTON. V. VA. GAZETTE `
D. MJ75
OEC 2 9 1978
Consumers May Pay
For PCB Replacement
Umttrd Frfii
Consnwers probably will end sp peyinf the IS million it's foing to coot the coni industry to halt nee of a cantor
' canetnt tobricant widely need in mttag machiaery,. according to industry
| spokesmen.
\ The ban on polychlorinated biphenyl
| (PCB) goao Into effect iaFohrnary.
' The Environmental Protection Agmcy says tee coal and power induetriie combined will probably have to apend 941 mfflion to convert to new materi als. PCB, which has been found to canoe cancer site norm damage in animals, io scheduled to be totally oat of me in mteing mscbinery by IMi.
PINES OP UP to m w a day w* bo leveled ot violators, srrordteg to EPA spohoswomaa Robin Wood, wttb
in tbo Arctic to mother's mitt in o
damn states," Ms. Wood eted. "Mm-
tries osed to damp Md PCB la tbo
waterways and it wee jspirnd in the
air. It aim made its way tele the lead
<*"
/
-Wt oat PCB eataulatly in batt au las* pad <p mlaiaf," uM Itrb Banin of Cnnalldatad Coal Co. "Wt'rt Mua| at >U way, w* can roan Uaa
"I lay A eaal ladaatiy will lum to aeqaioca pratty bard Is fit tba as* ragalatiosi," nM Charlu Joan, put anr W Unbar* Coal Co.
tks pablie Is pay far dim," ba added. "Has BMcb mort tapaua from com* plytag with Mariam can at absorb?"
m EFA oatimaln more tbaa IM bUUaa paanda el tba tsaic cbtmkal baa* beea aaed by iadmtry ahmjlgt. r~*~ ft~* pndacod " I* tba early lMTonbat Mat, at laaat 7M milllaa anaadi ara Itlll ia BM. ala BlilliOB
tuia tlnsnaa la lb, laibiamnu . "If, rtnwa u aaarywbtra Inn lea
HONS 008956