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Seattle, Washington 98103 (206)632-4326 - , . August 15, 1988 ! CarolVan Strum 4 ' Alder Hill Route 2, Box 109 Tidewate'r, Oregon 97390 > Dear Carol, Greetings I had a fen things I wanted to relay to you before I take off for Boston next week First Jim Puckett forwards this ); check and a thank you for services rendered ' '1 " ! . Second some things regarding dioxins in Oregon a la EPA's v National Dioxin Survey P ve already sent you copies of my FOIA . series of the National Dioxin Survey The meat of what I'd asked ! for was denied, but 1 did send a .volunteer (Jonathon Knapp) down i to Region 10 to take a look at the sanitized stuff they allowed I Greenpeace access to- Jonathon noted in the files some positive 5 . samples in Oregon under Tier 7 of the Survey, namely that 3 of 6 I fish (carp) tested out of the.Wi 1lametta showed dioxin <2, 3, 7, 8) at 1.8, 1.5, and 4.5 ppt. Also an undisclosed site in Linn ' ' .* H^inty with a soil sample at 5 ppt. Jonathon earmarked all this stuff for the EPA to copy^nd send to us, what 1 just conveyed was from some notes he took . Had you heard anything of this? Has any of it ever reached the press? The Tier 7 stuff that hit press here did so only because . of an insider in the Health Dept leaking it to the .press I < wasri'1 sure whether you'd run across any of it in your wanderings ; or not The EPA has done so much to ameliorate the impact of i their dioxin findings by trickling if out here and there I'd ! love to beat em to the punch on this one What do you think? They've shown so much savvy so far on this kind of thing that 1 wonder if they're not writing the press release already, now they t know that Greenpeace has the info. ; i. f \ i -- I've asked Jonathon to send you copies of the Oregon stuff as soon as he gets them, since I'll likely be in the Boston office when it arrives. '' . '` The third item I wished to discuss with you was the possibility of your participating in a panel discussion or debate of sorts on dioxins in Tacoma sometime this fall. The FOIA I sent you references the fact that EPA found ,3,7,8 in Tacoma yet is refusing to disclose the sites. Another element of interest in Tacoma that could be raised at such a forum is the city's plan to Retrofit a steam plant to burn garbage. . , There is a bozo at the Health Department there, and some equally 5 unapprized folks at the Dept of Ecology, that I'd frankly love to , pit you against either in a formal debate or as a surprize Greenpeace is a non-profit organization with offices in 17 countries. *