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Occidental wff pick up a cleanup tab
be collected only through workmen's compensation
Occidental Chemical will spend an estimated $3040 and that no punitive damages could be awarded. The
million to clean up a hazardous waste dump near a judges reasoned that the federal government had the
company plant in Niagara Falls, N. Y. Agreement on exclusive right to regulate nuclear safety, and that
the cleanup of the site, known as the "S-Area" dump, punitive damages interfered with the Nuclear Regu
followed four years of litigation between Occidental latory Commission's authority. By a 54 vote, the Su
and government agencies. The agreement spells out preme Court ruled that there is no conflict between
remedial actions that are to be taken by Occidental to the award and federal regulatory programs.
protect the city's drinking water from toxic chemicals
migrating from the site. Occidental is also obligated outnomn ununoi tot former waste program cmr
to take "whatever additional action is necessary," Rita M. Lavelle, former head of the Environmental
should proposed strategies fail. And the company will Protection Agency's hazardous waste program, was
pay the City of Niagara Falls some $3.6 million to sentenced last week to six months in jail for lying to
monitor drinking water quality for at least the next congressional committees about her involvement in a
35 years. The move marks the second negotiated set hazardous waste case. In addition, the 36-year-old
tlement between Occidental and the federal govern Lavelle was fined $10,000 and given five years proba
ment for cleanup of sites in the Niagara Falls area. tion. She will be eligible for parole a&er five months
Still pending against the company are two federal in prison. In December 1983, Lavelle was found
actions, including a $45 million suit brought in De guilty on four felony counts of perjury and obstruct
cember 1982 that seeks to recover Superfund monies ing a congressional inquiry in connection with a possi
- Bpent by EPA.
ble settlement at the Stringfellow site in California.
But she will appeal her conviction. ''4 Stauffer win* an Inspection suK against EPA
Stauffer Chemical can keep Environmental Protec Recombinant DMA committee to reevaluate Its role
- 1 tion Agency contractors out of its facilities. But the Members of the National Institutes of Health's Re
U. S. Supreme Court, in handing the company a vic combinant DNA Advisory Committee will try to re
tory on the controversial issue, refused to lay down a spond to continued queries about RAC's proper role
rule that will apply to all companies. Stauffer says at their Feb. 6-7 meeting at N1H headquarters. Com
that it fears that production secrets may get in the mittee members will study whether the NIH/RAC re-
f hands of competitors if private contractors are al combinant-DNA guidelines should be restricted solely
w lowed to troop through its plants, and had gotten the to biomedical research and work done in laboratories.
s i* U. S. Courts of Appeals in Denver and Cincinnati to Such restrictions would cancel RAC's reviews of
agree that the government cannot expand its search rDNA field tests or agricultural experiments. The
warrant powers to cover employees of independent panel will also consider accepting research proposals
companies hired by EPA to run inspections. EPA took only from scientists funded by NIB or other federal
the Cincinnati ruling to the high court, but the jus agencies, a move that would prevent review of indus
tices, rather than deciding the warrant issue, ruled try experimentation. RAC will also consider opening
unanimously that tike government should not have its sessions to the public, which could cause NIH to
pressed that case against Stauffer, having lost the eease accepting any proprietary data for review.
r point in the Denver proceeding.
USDA wB fund grants for alcohol fuels rseswth
Kerr McOes toees the latest tMkwood nJnQ
The Agriculture Dept, expects to set aside $520,000 in
Kerr-McGee is one step closer to having to pay mil fiscal year 1984 for a research progam on alcohol
lions of dollars in damages to the estate of Karen fuels. At least $130,000 will be reserved for such
H*' Silkwood, who had been a laboratory analyst at its research as the identification and development of i Crescent, Okla., plutonium plant After she was killed suitable agricultural products as raw material for
in an automobile accident in 1974, her father sued production. At least another 25% of the funds will go
Kerr-McGee for injury done to her by plutonium con toward technologies that increase the energy efficien
tamination, and a jury awarded the estate $5,000 in cy and commercial feasibiity of alcohol pro&iction.
property damages, $500,000 in personal damages and Each grant award will be limited to $80,000, and to
a whopping $10 million in punitive damages. The projects that take a maximum of three years. Fund
U. S. Court of Appeals in Denver threw out all but ing proposals must be received by the USDA Grants
the $5,000 award, holding that personal injuries could Administrative Management Office by Apr. 6.
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Oxy may settle over Love Canal
National awareness of the dilemma If so. the move is a major precedent
posed by toxic-waste dumps sprang in the field of victims' compensation
largely from the experiences of the resi suits. Previously, both chemical compa
dents of the now-quarantined Niagara nies and industry trade associations,
Falls. N. Y., community of Love Canal. such as the Chemical Manufacturers
And last week, former residents were Assn., have vigorously opposed injury-
at the center of a major development in related compensation settlements on the
the growing national debate over the basis that no scientific link has been
compensation of citizens alleging ill established between human illnesses
nesses caused by toxic-waste exposure. and exposure to hazardous waste. "We
In a move with broad implications for are not opposed to victims compensa
the chemical industry, Occidental Petro tion; we just don't know whether there
leum announced that a "basic accord" are any victims to be compensated,"
has been reached on an out-of-court set says Geraldine Cox, CMA's vice-presi
tlement of $16 billion on personal injury dent for technical affairs.
claims that were brought by former res- During the next two months, attor
neys for both sides will negotiate the
protocol for disbursing settlement
funds among the some 1,300 individuals
participating in the suit. Once deter
mined, the allocation protocol is to be
forwarded to federal district court in
Buffalo, N. Y., for comment.
' According to an Occidental spokes
man. the firm is set to contribute $6
million to the settlement fund. Further
funds will come from insurance compa
nies but the total cost is unknown.
However. Richard Lippes. attorney
for the Love Canal plaintiffs, warns
there is "no settlement," though there
have been "some significant break
throughs" in the talks with Occidental.
The major breakthrough, he says, is
that the company finally made a "condi
tional settlement offer."
Wrapping It up. According to Lippes,
there are "still a number of significant
Reetdents are seeking Si6 billion in damages.
issues" to be resolved, including the to tal sum of the settlement, how it will be
idents of Love Canal against Hooker paid, to which plaintiffs, and the form
Chemical, now Occidental Chemical, as of release that the plaintiffs would be
well as the City of Niagara Falls and required to sign freeing Occidental
other local public authorities. "We from further claims. A major problem
choose to seek resolution of these suits now, says Lippes, is to deal with the
out of court, even though the record issue of some plaintiffs accepting a set
does not support the claim that chemi tlement and others not
cal wastes buried at the site caused ill At Chemical Week's press time, it
nesses or injury," said Armand Ham was not clear how much insurance com
mer, chairman and chief executive panies would contribute to any settle
officer of Occidental Petroleum, the ment. There have been coverage dis
chemical company's parent, in a pre putes in California and New York
pared statement.
between Occidental and its insurers, in
Occidental officials decline to com cluding Lloyd's of London, Hartford Ac
ment on the specific terms of the pro cident and Indemnity, and Argonaut In
posed settlement. But a source close to surance (CW. Feb. 8, 1980, p. '2J>.
the case says that awards to residents Both New York State and the federal
will be based on such factors as the government have also filed suits
nature of the alleged illness and years against Occidental over Love Canal. No
of residence in the Love Canal commu talks are underway in those actions, but
nity. Says the source: "Some residents the federal government is negotiating
will be receiving more than others."
over two other Niagara Falls sites.
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Fourteen months after the federal government declared the Love Ca nal area of Niagara Fails, N.Y., hab itable once measures were taken to prevent further leakage of toxic chemicals from the dump and al ready tainted sites were cleaned up, the Environmental Protection Agen cy has pirouetted saying that new
evidence of contamination will push back the decision on habitability untiJ 1985 at the earliest. Further, the finding of contamination beyond the area that was to have been surrounded by a containment wall has forced the agency to revamp its remedial cleanup program.
EPA's announcement of a revised plan for handling the remaining contamination at Love Canal was prompted by a contractor's finding
of "significant migration of chemi cals beyond the proposed wall location," and by a dose review of a recent Office of Technology As sessment study. That study faulted EPA's environmental monitoring data, and the use by the Depart ment of Health & Human Services of that flawed data as a basis for its habitability decision.
Rep. John J. LaFalce (D.-N.Y.), whose district includes Love Canal and who, along with New York's two U.S. Senators had requested the OTA study, says that EPA now has
"in effect admitted that the $8 mil lion environmental assessment was inadequate for its intended pur poses." And Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D.-N.Y.) has suggested that EPA ask the National Academy of Sciences for "recommendations on
the scope and design of additional sampling and environmental moni toring at Love Canal."
James Marshall, EPA's director of external programs for Region U, says HHS's habitability decision was con tingent "on a series of remedial mea-
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sures being carried out." In the course of canying out those mea sures--placing a clay cap over the dump site, building a containment wall which was to surround the ca nal and its leachate collection and French tile drainage systems, and designing cleanup procedures for dioxin-contaminated creeks and sewers--a contractor found contami nation at the wall site that had not been detected by EPA's massive monitoring study. Marshall says the contractor's most significant find ing was a "group of phthalates in the high-ppb to low-ppm range." though lindane, benzene, chloro form, and several other organic chemicals were also detected in the soil in the low parts-per-billion range. Marshall says that the con tractor found no dioxin, and that this information was "all disclosed in Niagara Falls this July."
Joel S. Hirschhom, OTA senior
associate and an author of the OTA report, says the discovery that
chemicals had migrated beyond the
site of the proposed wall would
"suggest the wisdom of doing more
environmental monitoring studies."
Yet, as LaFalce points out. EPA's "pronouncements do not include a
firm commitment to additional
monitoring for the express purpose
of making a habitability decision ."
What EPA is committed to is a
thorough review of existing data,
perhaps more studies to fill in the
gaps, and cleanup on a timetable
that begins running this month and
continues through February 1988.
And according to Marshall, EPA,
which three months ago had decid ed not to build the containment
wall, now will be reviewing op
tions for containing the migrating chemicals. A decision on an alterna
tive to the wall will be made in six
to eight months, he says. In the
meantime, "remedial work is going
on," Marshall says. The clay cap
will be completed before this winter,
and the creeks and sewers will be
cleaned up by the end of next year.
In the revised plan, EPA and New
York state have divided the Love
Canal area into three zones. Clean
up will proceed from the most con
taminated zone outward, and "incre
mental" decisions on livability will
be made in the reverse order. Habit
ability decisions will be made by
the Centers for Disease Control and
by the N.Y. Department of Health
beginning as early as March 1985
and proceeding through 1988.
The finding of additional con
tamination, EPA's decision todo new
studies, and the extension of the
decision-making timetable, "make
everything at Love Canal more un certain and more loaded with ambi
guity," Hirschhom says.
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couraging trend in the relationship be tween the major environmental organi sations and the chemical industry {cover ttory, p. i$).
As we have noted previously, indus try and environmentalists are beginning to Bit down together and negotiate on issues. Both want to avoid the paper work, delays and uncertainties of the prolonged regulatory process. And tooth want to avoid costly litigation.
It's hard to tell how far this trend will go. Some of the gaps that separate the positions of the two parties are pret ty wide, as in the current right-toknow struggle. But over the long haul, there
is much reason for hope that such gaps can be bridged by healthy compromise. That's because between the two sides there's a growing, though stall wary, respect.
Many environmentalists now seem more willing to acknowledge that there will always be degrees of risk in our interaction with our environment, since we have neither the know-how nor the
resources to eliminate all such risk. As
a corollary, they recognize that human
beings may be more willing to accept a
certain level of risk than to depress
their material standard of living or to
force an employer to become uncompeti
tive. They are beginning to understand
that industry executives, despite the
pressure to maximize profits, do care
about the environment, too. And they
have learned that industry people some
times can offer good solutions to envi
ronmental problems.
On the other side, many industry ex
ecutives now concede that some of their
environmentalist adversaries know
what they're talking about. They can
deal with economic tradeoffs, and they
have access to sound science.
Despite all this, the relationship be
tween industry and environmentalists is
bound to remain adversarial for the
foreseeable future. Laws, cops and gad
flies are still needed to help change the
sloppy industrial habits of a century.
But we hope that negotiation will con
tinue to displace litigation. And we be
lieve that the dialogue will now be less
shrill and more constructive.
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Paying up at Niagara Falls
Love Canal, in the popular imagination, stands for the chemical horrors that may lurk, unseen, almost anywhere. And it is a landmark case in the con
frontation between industry and envi ronmentalists.
Now, five yean after that chemicalwaste dump in Niagara Falls, N. Y , sprang upon our consciousness, it ap pears that Love Canal may also set an important precedent in the law. Occiden tal Petroleum says it has offered . pay $5-6 million as part of a aettleme: with 1,300 parties to a class-action sun. who claim to have been injured by leakage from the dump (p. 17).
Ttat payment would surely be just the tip of the iceberg, with insurers
stuck for tbe rest The suit was for $16 billion, and no one will speculate on what the total payment might be. And. assuming tbe offer is accepted, it will be a while before the parties work out the details of how the payment is to be allocated among the claimants.
A settlement would be significant for a number of reasons. Foremost is the
fact that, so far as we can tell, there
was no substantial negligence on the
part of Hooker Chemical, now Occiden
tal Chemical, in its disposal of toxic
wastes at Love Canal. Tbe company fol
lowed approved procedures for toxic-
waste landfills. The leakage occurred
after the cap was disturbed, which hap
pened after Hooker had sold the land
and despite the company's warnings.
And there are questions as to the ex
tent of any long-range health damage.
Occidental's willingness to settle in
light of those facts shows how all-en
compassing the courts' view of liability
has become. It is a dear signal that
chemical companies must exercise not
just normal care but extraordinary care
to ensure safe disposal of toxics.
Just as important, there is much in
terest across the nation in developing
equitable means of compensating the
victims of exposure to toxic chemicals.
If and when the details of the Love
Canal settlement are worked out, they
will almost certainly serve as a power
ful precedent for future cases.
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HAZARDOUS WASTE CRITERIA AND LISTINGS
EPA DESIGNATION or 2,!|*D AS AN "ACUTELY HAZARDOUS" CHEMICAL UNDER RCRA IS BEING DISPUTED BY CHEH.AHN CORP ~
JULY IE, PAGE 12.
EPA IS ADOINC 18 "INTERIM FINAL* HAZARDOUS HASTES TO ITS RCRA REGULATIONS ANO IS PNOPOSINC TO INCLUDE ANOTHER SEVEN HASTES -* JULY 16, PACE H.
EPA'S HAZARDOUS HASTE RULES HAVE BEEN DEFENDED BY EPA'S OFFICE OP SOOO WASTE -- AUG. 20, PACE 10.
RCRA COMMENTS ON EPA'S INTERIM FINAL LISTING OF NINE INDUSTRIAL HASTES ARE DUE IN OCTOBER -- SEPT. 17, Pace 2.
EPA'S RCRA SMALL QUANTITY GENERATOR CXEWTION IS BEING CHALLENGED SY THE NATIONAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT Association -- Oct. 22, Page 22.
EPA has finalized its list of 80 hazardous hastes, oclistinc four hastes FROM ITS INTERIM FINAL UST and DEFERRING PINAL ACTION ON FIVE HASTES PREVIOUSLY LISTED OR PROPOSED FOR LISTING ** NOV. 12, PAGE ZV.
LOVE CANAL
ACCORDING TO AN AMENDMENT CONTAINED IN FY 1580 SUPPLDiEMTAL APPROPRIATIONS APPROVEO IN HOUSE-SENATE CONFERENCE Report No. 36-11W9, President Carter hquld have the authority to relocate families at Love Canal -- July 5 Pace B2.
Love Canal pollution monitoring contract for 85.H million has aharoed to CCA Corp. of Bedford, Mass. -- July 23, Page 2.
Love Canal epiddaiology hork group meeting to discuss epidemiologic study protocols on health effects of CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION OF THE LOVE CANAL AREA HILL BE HELD IN AUGUST AT THE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL, Atlanta, Ga. -- Aug. 6, pace 2.
The Carter Administration has offered Nch Yoibc State a $15 million loan to be used for the relocation of Love Canal residents -- Auc. 6, Page 15.
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Toxic chemicals found in the blood of Love Canal residents are "in the same range as published values for THE GENERAL POPULATION," ACCORDING TO A NEW STUDY ST THE EPA ** AUG. 6, PAGE 18.
Love Canal environmental testing by EPA -- including hater sailing ano sailing in homes -- hill begin soon -- Auc. 18, Pace 2.
The Love Canal Homeowners Association has hritten EPA a letter concerning its proposed plans for tests -- Aug. 20, Page 32.
Auc.Love Canal Homeohners Association revims EPBs proposed plans to test at canal area --
27, Page 29.
A Sv.1 MILLION STUDY OF RESIOENTS LIVING NEAR THE LOVE CANAL AREA IS NON UNDER CONSIDERATION SY THE CENTER FOR Disease Control and the Hem York University Meoical School at Buffalo -- Sept. 3, Page 5.
Love Canal environmental monitoring by CPA is expected to ie finished bt the end of the month -- Oct. 22, Page 2.
Environmental data collected bt EPA at Love Canal as part of the agency's efforts to assess the health risks in THE AREA HILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC BT JANUARY " NOV. 5, PAGE 25.
Residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., oon't appear to have higher cancer rates than other persons livinc in Hem York state, according to a study bt the Neh York State Health Department -- June 17, Pace 13.
NOTIFICATION
Hazardous haste non-ndtifiersoould be subjeot to penalties of up to $25,000 a day under RCRA 3010 provisions -- Aug. 13, Pace 10.
FPA'S OSW counts about 60,000 RCRA notifiers and has mailed out about 28,500 RCRA PEWIT application PACKAGES -- HOV. 12, PAGE 2.
LATEST EPA ESTIMATES OOUNT RCRA NOTIFICATIONS AT ABOUT 56,000 -- JAN. 7, PAGE 2.
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Fib, N.Y., neighborhood eod- te fnct ghee it nn extra edge of
tel^ fami^ their buaaoants dread
tt cot
teO of bnm, thter drinking Tbougbout the (Dm, tba big and al
water fall of dioxin and thdr i*--"*"> plant aeroae the rirer millin'
ehfldkwna' bodies fa# of poteano lorane batween tahna Use a ewindi
o exotic ten doctors canid only maheolanl monetae, reminding He i
prateover the eympteaa.
all who watch that the Love Pterp.
the Love.Coal m a Canal ia not tba nation's only Coun*
ctental damp of upunMod potential death trap.
Nert
lateUtj, ad
dMnicala The coanattion may not be per1
worn leaking death into qnite fair to the eteidaHt- D
evaything. Tonight tmt t-11
dnatry in gatenl, bat it does atto BET, eerve to amphnatee the warning u
CBS wffl tnrofinr the ive sounded 10 yanra ago by tba jndt
Canal nightmare, the tarcr of enen of arias* fiction.
erm
the people cnagbt in the middle Under the Influence -- benign daf
of it and. abova dt, the or makrahnt -- of today'e S
transforation of a hauaewife technology, eriaara fiction bu of
nanad Late Gfbbe.
a dtetarUng habit of canning to Bar
Motel Muon, who mold ba fiction almoat before it ie off m*
tern aoop ean label Ue a the prate
Coi
dramatic script, ia fine m the ti
t
tle foie of a timid rabbit who Tlw Pablk Braedceetmc Ser Ge
bar nmae a marauding tigreae vice will open e four-part aalnte per
whan etete and federal to Black Hiatory Month Pte.
bnroaacrate manara ha coba tonight with the dramntheri wee
with tbair pig handed pnbttea) lory of a man who barnme a IM1
vaatan.
dvd righto activist what the orig
Before Lote Gfbbe - throat qneutteu was alavery, not juft wa.
Into feeadad teaiterehip by ha IWriurfMttwB
Tb
neighbors -- ia tbrengh with "Danmark
Yeeay'e a dec
Summer Math
RabaBion." which airs nation Tie wide under various local PBS
Centtenedbaae Pn*a
recall* the W* of
"teaar of methemeties at
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