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>% if;f5if-- ' !>m :# : ;:r ?% :-i'-*s # i M 3#!&::- rfv-.i'pvii .&S&;-;,?;%dfafi. ;^?4' fa*'A* 'J| t.i$k ; .tiS 31 11 fg - i ^K>;6: #-J_ . C>.: New York Times News Service:- _ .. ' the cbngress- > WASHINGTON:-- A House of Rveeoprreesseemntaautivveess - -, -------- ... this country we've become so i- subcommitee plans to issue a list on Monday of 250:; sitejs^ a potential danger tothe^grou^^ater.sup^ccustomed to just turning on the faucet.!: Every sites:in the United States (including two in North&P1^ Jron?, conservative Republicans to liberal Carolina) where hazardous wastes are-thought -to-. ?-. <'Moffett; said-that.'he: expected^yirtuall^feyery.;; Demounts,- will support this. . , -,u. < :. present a great potential threat to drinking water : member of Congress to support him. in getting funds Moffett said that his subcommittee >had some > 3 supplies 'v appropriated to deal with the problem under laws misgivings over whether to release the list. "This W , "It will become the most volatile domestic issde that already exist:|||||^: .,& - , ;. Just dynamite,'the said.-,j ; . ; X: ; of the 1980s," said Rep. Toby Moffett, D-Conn., who ' ' heads the subcommittee on .Environment;-;Energy Wand Natural Resources,-'which is issuing the-report.1;-! w "It touches virtually every state," Moffett said in an interview, in advance of the report's release. "Nothing comes close to rivaling the issue of contam- ' iriated water."-..;; -- '-y. d ...v --' -- - '`i--.................... .. .......... ^-------Trr--*------- ^ - mS& . m .,,: A subcommittee, aide warned; that the. list , wasincomplete because it was based on states compiling ithe data arid submitting them to the federal Environ\ jmental Protection Agency, which, in turn, analyzed & Y-them and submitted them to Congress. ; ..:.;:>rThe list contains 2,100 sites withyarying poten tials of harm to water supplies. The 250 .with the "most imminent /peril were said to/be: those that met these criteria; ;They contain potentially-hazardous fl wastes, there is no impermeable linirig between; the wastes and, the ground-water supply, and they are : within a mile of a potential water supply well. JJ;. Some of the concerns that" maintain the dump': sites included on the list disputed their presence there when reached for comment. Some said that dumping had stopped some years ago and others said that they were conforming to their states' environ-" : mental requirements. '%,/vCiC.V- - The subcommittee aide conceded as much. : "Some of the .information may. be inaccurate," he, ; .said, but he added, "Some of the areas may no longer ' be in use, but they are continuing to cause damage.;";; J;-'- -'By- thisj 'he said, he meant that some-holding areas were no longer active, but the hazardous .".wastes are iri"the.ground from previous-use.-Eachr ^ time it rains, he said, the wastes sink deeper into the ground,' finally reaching the water table. -V. -