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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1971 July 14 DOC NMA056 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - A Pollution Code Voted by Council A POLLUTION CODE VOTED BY COUNCIL York By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ Current Historical New York TimeTs imes ; Currentfile Jul 14 1971 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 A POLLUTION CODE VOTED BY COUNCIL Rules Would Curb Sulphur in Fuel and Set Up Board to Deal With Violators By NARV A. A NARE VAEZ Z _ The City Council unanimously ap roved aproved yesterday a stringent pollution control code that reduces the allowable sulphur content in fuels burned and limits the amount of particle emissions burning from ventilators and burning equipment The code which is expected to be signed by also sets tribunal in the form of an en- vironmental control board with the power to hear cases and levy fines against individuals or corporations violating the code Under the measure the board would order the owners of equipment that causes emission to install controlling apparatus or to shut down the equipment if it does not meet the standard set up by Schedule code the Schedule of Fines Violators could be fined 100 a day and 500 if they broke the seal placed on faulty equipment equipment Although the code sets a limit of .3 per cent on sulphur tent fuels burned by commercial Consolidated Consolidated and residential facilities 1 1971 it allows Consolidated Edison to burn a 0.55 per cent sulphur fuel that date The utility would have to comply with 0.3 per cent limit by Oct. 1 1972 Spokesmen for the utility tes- tified at hearings conducted by the Council's Committee on En- vironmental that complying with the more strin- gent provisions at this time would cost the company about million next year This the spokesmen said would be re- flected in an 8 per cent increase in the cost of electric- ity to the consumers or an extra 10 a year to the average consumer The utility may pass along the increased cost of fuel to the consumer without authorization by the Public Service Commis- sion Mayor Lindsay termed the Council's passage of the code another important step toward a cleaner and healthier environment for all New Yorkers In the last several months there has been a discernible improvement in the quality of our air the Mayor said in a statement issued at City Hall He added Comment by Kretchmer Jerome Kretchmer Environ- mental Protection Administra- tor said that passage of the code was a major turning point in the city's fight for cleaner air The administrative tribunal he said would give agency the enforcement powers it needs to prosecute violators This will enable us to proc- ess cases efficiently get rapid compliance from viola- tors in a way that the old system through the Criminal Courts has failed to do Mr. Kretchmer said The code would abolish the spraying of asbestos insulating materials six months after it is signed into law and would strictly limit how other insulating materials could be installed at construction sites th of e the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited prohibited withoutpermision