Document M6Kkxb5o2zzzD3rmj6ooEL6k

'EPA head opposes law to control PCBs SPRINGFIELD Api-TV director of .he Sale CmnrwvTwrtaJ protection Agency > EPA said Tuesday he don not 'aw pus>ng a la* to control too of PCS*, chemicals wtach tninowmanial croups clann we threatvong wiMGfe ml human health These tclasw are ry xary to me. hut oti (he other hand some drasOc actions can become couraerproducUvc." said Richard H Bncetand. noting that a ban an PCBs ootid force mt o( 'substitute chemicals that an even one. "The health related data ion the effects of PCBsi is very questionable-- the impact m very quotionaMe.' he aid Briceland'* camnents came m test!-' many before the House Committee n Dixbunment. fjwrjt- and Natural Re sources. which is comudehng legislation to severely curtail the amom of PC8s ki commercial products_________ PCBs became a focus of world can can) to lMl am thm* IJH Japanese suffered advene dhcu alter tine ret sit oMamiaalsd by the cheoticale OMcMl my the fttwow partial of Laha MdWgm is heavily notammsAed with PCBs. But Brictimd toM the cemmiUoc that it already is illegal to discharge PCM ato Illinois eaterways md that control rf the Chemicab -pcobbly ooaM be bandied throutfi the existng tynem id slate regulation!." PCBs. or pelycMonnated bqrienyb. are liquid roitpoiwdi ttm for the past four decades haw been toed in such products as paiiSs. inks, electric trane lormers. flouroscoa Ughu. atr candi- tanera and other ebctraal etpapnem. Karl C. Bremer, a irpml official of the VS. EPA. toU the ewnmittee tim medical records shew cases of shb towns and trhuesn among warhers involved in manufactory PCBs._____ In the Japantar evident victims std- fered shin ptgmsaiwiwi problems, festafis. eye Bscharges. ouscamagm and stiltsrths. mtd Bremer He said that in the Imted SUtes PCBs have been manufachnd by a angle producer, the Vtoneanto Otmical Co. The firm now is EiiotaiJ fiSU (o use in ciesrd ebetncal systams md pirns to phase ota da mbs depriving on the availability of shemathe fluto. he said But Bremer said there ban* been reports of PCBs being imported for rilr uses, and that they connoed to be fcual in fish from the Mississippi to the Hwbon rircrs The cheitaub end ep m the water due to tnproper Mdusinal dinhargu and vopenation. he said. " PCB conemuatima in Lake MMagan coho salmon, lake trout and eacoed the <l'S.i Food and On* Adanmaration's temporary toleranca level of fie* potto per mUSai." sari Bremer. "Them caacantrabons have not decreased me ll" James D. Griffith, representing a coalition called PCB Gone, told tlw committee tM fadma and Mchigm already have macted lapriafinn controlbng PCBs and that such laws are pending in Wisconsin and Manesau U b. ladies and ntiemm an enterpmey." said Griffith, IBbum is a ittle behind these other states, and I hope 'the law i wiU be enacted tlm sesatm " Ba Bricefand aid sute officials nev er have been given a satisfactory ex planation of why the PDA mt Its toler ance level for PCBa at ft*e pans per millien in fish The FDA acted "very arbitrarily.*' he said. Bricelaad said the slate EPA tm found only ne Hun rearing a si^Mficant comributiw to the PCS conucmmuon f Lake Mkhtgm. Outboard Mm Corp of Waategwi NigXiaiimu are *der way to arise that problem, he said. Another EPA offieiri told the commit tee that PCB content! aaiwa above fh* port* per raiUfea "arc prcmneu m Lake Michigan wdy Oowvetete fish samples have shown b<*b in flesh lar below ithati " . One of the bib bemg oonsidemJ bv the committee b a Waft comnettee bill, the Other is sponsond by Rep. ABchsei L. Getty. D-Oeftoa The bilb would barer ttmit atamdac- turo f PCBs and caB for ffeamdhi restrictions on the pteaeact of PCBs m commercial pratfcns- Rep. Daniel M. Fierce. D-ffighriad Park, the comnaOee chairman, ap pointed a subcomnattee to farther *ti*jv 1 * j