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. t--^ Tluilsday, Sepftmtor 2b, 1974 elir g-mltll- ilimrg E I 3 ij Chances good for ridding L Duwamish of toxic PCB PMiiic JO***. ' O--pI*WttFMS*Or \ W!** | Elliot i. WH* Toco* j'mfetf j Owl / Ftll* ; j*. The Environmental Pro tection Agency today said there is "a good chance for recovery" of the toxic poly chlorinated biphenyl (P. C. B.) which spilled into the Duwamish River at Slip I of Federal Center South Sep tember }3. Divers yesterday found concentrations of the chemicul, which is heavier than water, lying on the bottom of the river at depths up to S5 feet. E. P. A. officials have be gun negotiating lor the op eration of a vacuum dredge which would suck up the P. C. B. and several inches of mud and silt from (he river bottom. The agency said it hnry*H to begin dredging during the weekend or by Monday. Supplies taken to stranded ship TOKYO - <UPl) - The tugboat Hercules met Ja pan's nuclear ship Mutsu off northern Japan today and transferred food and water to the stranded ves sel, the Maritime Safety Agency said. the Mutsu. Japan's first nuclear ship, is stranded in the North Pacific off the northern tip o( Honshu main island. The 8,214-ton vessel has a leaking nuclear reactor and is banned from its home port of Mutsu by protesting fishermen. The spoils would be pumped across die river in a Moating pipeline to an Army Corps of Engineers dumping site on Kellogg Is land. The Coast Guard lias said it will close the river to traffic at the spill site, about a half mile upstream from Harlxir Island, to per mit us* n iw* finiio2 I'ip*. line. ' PCB has been linked to genetic defects in scalne and to the deaths of seals and sea lions. Although the chemical has been de scribed as `'extremely insol uble." it would eventually dissolve into the rtver wa ter. . The chemical was spilled when an electrical trans former was dropped and cracked and cooling fluid leaked Into the river. HONS 068046