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THE NEW YORK TINES, SEPT. 8, 1976 . r |4--. . 1 FORDUKPIfiGPGB'S i;._ liefer UPPER HUDSON IUiUi ipuifi UPffili A . u ". .O\' - / . > ti - >. - ,, * 'ii . *vis: ^ , * *-- . Agrees to Help-State -; Continued From Pag* l ' ' i. brought M/n 'h'o conflict with Governor Carey, who favored balancing economic -I' : iJ?H#i^^CFinance Fesesrcii. to 'Eliminate Pollulant From the River '; and- environmental concerns. Mr.' Reid tad other problems with Governor Carey,' but tbit was considered the major one. . Drlore hie resignation, Mr.. Raid - ` : <i. -.v`. vi -ifi * >'- \ "* ' ~ ; /.. .. *i i ,, warned, the public not to cal liie Hah' ;: By. ISSUE MAITLAND . General Eltclric. in a negotiated cattle- (Hunt Vrilh the Department of .Environ ments! Constmllon, ha agreed to ppy $3 million toward cleansing the Hudson River of. highly toxic' PCS'?- thai it (lumped there. The company fixe' alio agreed to pay tl .million for.`recirth on ending Oia.prebterh. . * ' Under-the agrerrotnl, which netlhef fcxonert.U nor blames -the company for S-iT* 5 . -r^ '^: -i* rtf'* v polluting .the Upper Hudson River, the Kate will 'clw tet'.ecida S3 million ,Co *;.* t>- *': Kelp. eliminate the -chtoueoS-polychlorl. titled blphenyle--Irom the water. " The Departhtfhi of Envlfonmentel Con' I i:?r^ ' ! :' . im-atlon It expected (o announce the *' (erim* of Ihe agreement--rtgardtd M a historic event by a number cl conserva tionists becaute It -severely. penalizes .a msjur polluter--In a ntw* conference in Xlbtny today. . * . * '' from fha Hudson and then dosed tho river to-most types cf commercial, fishing. PCB'e have caused cancer In laboratory animals and a varfoly pf lilnesscs among General Electric workers who have been In contact with the'eubctance (or a long period of lime. Tho toxic chemical was dijtovcrtd. recently in the milk pt. snore than-SO -women'llving in Mjchlgso,'Jn dapen, more than. J,000 people breune III front PCS'* lhal had leaked Into rice oil used for cooking; .` . _ The Hudson River i believed to'conteln about 500,000 pounds ol the cbtm- '. .fcal, ,which binds itself to p&rliculste mauer-susptndcd In the water as well ; ar to the eedlment on the bottom of fivtrr, hkee and estuaries. . . For about d3 ye*?*, PCS'* were used : In' (ubricanle, pnper costings, hydraulic fluids, plaeUelzrrs, paints, inks and ad hesives, Because of their Inertness; lire 'resistance and ability to hold an elec r.Tt\ /riy.C; :M - - V- x .-/ :s..VK` 7' S' 7;.:*-V, *V ' ' -,-V'.l.i"--''T.W: ; - -* . `-a'-l,- --. -.--d - r, ,-v - '3.V/ . - 'Two PetSIne Co Discus* Tam* .-Marlin Wstser. an nssIaUnt io Peter A. A- Ct/lt. Commissioner of Environmenial CoAstrvaUon. declined yerterday to dhcvss <hd (emit of tho agreement, at did is spokesman for General Electric " ' It, * lawyer wllh the Nature Delenso Council, a publicrm that represented several . c-onw.rvUon groups' acting at hi Vf-. a .CVv' '**. . :. -i. %,V- t w' ltrvenoivln -the cate, and-partlclpated In -V--' W O (he negotiation* alto refuted to discuss the terms ol Ihe egrcchienU ,,'Butrhe raid that the chief .concerns of the cnvlronmenlalltl Jhlervtnnm bad been to eeture the cleanup of Ihe Hudson. River and to establish a precedent for holding polluters responsible for tho ecu' ct-thdtyoxle discharges. ' kgs.-?, - - fetult^l Hearing* - Vha aelilemeoi I* .a remit of quad' udltlat heorlnga ordered by the. Depart: Citht ol EnvIfO.-mifeilf1`ConStrvMlon ard trical Charge, they were regarded as well suited to (he manufacture of cap&clpre and generator*. . =. . . Decile* In Output Stressed - ` General. Eteotric hns been dumping Wv , - / 'V -.:V '' -~U` .................*.. 7 ' J. PCD's Into the Hudson for more Umn 25 yesre. Between lees and 1972 alone, tlie company discharged an estimated fci.COO pound* Of It. Tho company seys, Ivjw-' over, that k has reduced Us output In recant months, (ram about two pounds .- * . - .* >>' ` - 1 'I \ V ; * >v - a day la*f December to a ftw ounoei j - ' dally now. . - ' ' . . . . .. ;V-B: Congrats Is moving toward legislating' a tan; on PCB production, but tegliict.: exists over Ihe best way to eliminate the - substance, the! has already been .doposited, _ . - . --I ' J.'- . '-Vi. rV";;- , "We don't really know If dredging is 0 good,", tald Dr. Kerim Ahmed; a Clo- ;-'V-.e chemist with Ihe Nature! RMOurcry Do- - ' ftmse Council "W* need to do aomo pilot-, . .:*: studies cf how to-get rid cli'land where .- I;-,-'.----' M- -V-" S' 4v>- i**V. t ogo with it nee it' itooUPari of uia. agreement fa to studythe problem lim.'1, .sV^ *-* j-*?: ctilmlnelee months olhaggilbg among fh department. O-E. and the intervening ehvlronmental aewcistlonac lt also.pula do hah4e'entdlW, atlt*dIn-*tdevl oforerenilolawii,iioannt6is.Biueeoethfatl v Vv s'- lari Ptbriiary, Prof.-Abraham pi EoTaer of the Columbia Law Schaol.-lhe bearing officer In the .case, found Ihet company had violated Hew Yotk J6tale'* water' qtiallly atandarda by lit PCB dltcharge* frofti ctpacllor planls at Port Edward and Hudson r*l!, north of Albany. The dis i -!- charges cl the pdllulantbad come tp puh. lie Mlention lam fall, alter high levels of PCB'a were found In -fish from the Hudson River,' . ` .host April,Ahe conflict led to the reaig (istfoii -under,-pretiure 'of Mr. 'Befle'r predecessor, Ogdon R..-RMd, Whose un compromising aiahea on: the. QJBi '^ere ' .' Fishing Banned In Georgia River * ,, ATtAHTA, fiept. 1 (OW>--*fhe Gccigi* Board of HeUirel Resources today ordered an end of commercial (ishlng on the. Coosa River because of PCB poisoning anti urged sportsmen to throw back fun they oaten on the river. The emergency 120-day ban was .Imposed from Rome to the Alehama line after laboralorv letts of fish caught in the Coosa ahowtel levels ol PCB'p up to 25 times (he sale content. The Commission of Natural Resources, 3o Tenner, paid Ihe pollutant was spilled ov.er a 20-year period from a Gertwl Cltclrie plant el Rome, where clecirlcal trtnsfbrmare.are msmifaeIured..Ho said thsl since IP70, O.F.. lies been working, to prevent RCB drelnage-trem the plant. -r y.Si; S :-' '.v Cottllnaed on Pege 411 Column P- m - . * \r;^: DSW 330128 ^ Av*, STLCOPCB4076771