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FILE NAME Newspaper & Magazine Articles NMA DATE 1974 Oct 2 DOC NMA090 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NYT - 3 States Ask Court to Halt Dumping in Lake Superior Superior 3 States Ask By GLADWIN Court to Halt The Dumping DumpingDumping to NewNew York HILLSpecial HILLSpecial Lake Superior Times 1857 Currentfils Oct 2 1974 ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times 1851 - 2002 3 States Ask Court to Halt : Dumping in Lake Superior By GLADWIN HILL oe Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON ; Oct. 1 - Steel Corporations produces 16 - Michigan Minnesota and Wis- cent of the country's iron consin asked the Supreme imme medical It has challenged adverse Court today to order an discharges diate end to the Reserve Min- . ing Company's of iron dumping conversion more United ore waste into Lake Superior The on the ground that thousands said testimony against its and has that would cost million States Court of United of people daily Appeals granted Eight Circuit posed were being to causing drinking excon- for pany a day stay of the shut- taminants in drinking water Appeals prolngedprolonged litigationindefinite Protec- down order The full Supreme tion Agency the leading co- Court refused on July 11 to the stay On Aug. 28 the plaintiff in against the company did not Court made the stay join in the request Agency of Seen ficials Irreparable Harm Seen - _ saoifd Govertnmhenitstechnicality technicality The today because that a technicality motion accused hbazaasrdesdstipu- Afapuosledt numheeraolutshbeing on feared health file a separate appeal numerous The states filed their motion lations It was - with Associate Justice Harry health indefinite the Blackmun who has jurisdiction the over the eighth Federal circuit stipu- hazards feared stay ofof conctoinnuteidnuceodnticnonuteindued exposure exposure Thchieldren The motion seeks to vacate children and _ lower court's indefinite stay children causing discharge an order to the mining gens in the water pany to stop its daily the of 67,000 tons of tailings into cea, babies to carcino- substan- they drink they breathe begins process may takeyears lake Tailings : Contain Asbestos the motion said The situation The tailings some ground clearly presents the irreparable microscopic size contain and compelling circum: among other pollutants stances which this court has tos which in some indicated are factors justifying has been found stance to vacation of stay orders G. 2d cancer According to medical KirKik rk the Environ- evidence in mental Protection Agency's Agency's top reported weeks even household relatives officer said Depart- of people exposed excessively of Justice which has . can the to asbestos develop represented the agency in the ease - litigation refrained from join- After five years of Federal in the petition now because proceedings against the com- felt that the formal legal pany the United States District was incomplete He said Court in Minneapolis ordered States District Judge the plant shut until it could Lord who issued the convert to land waste original shutdown order had posal The company refinery been on circuit assignments " at Silver Bay 56 miles east and had had a chance to Duluth Minn sign certain orders called for a The companjoiynt venture the subsequent court rul- of the Armco and Republic Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Further reproduction prohibited without permission