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Uift $ranltaiii-friu HEW ffOCHEUE, K.T. otauwtrrrr*K MW PCB: Colorless, odorless-dangerous ly kDCBAttJlOODY Suit Bribe -Krqpsak: DEG knew five years ago- . H'i t tdortap, odorim . iibiUnci tb( b* 4wnpd li FUBKlLL. N Y (API - General Be* ididalilrilkai knew that IMa(ain| o ' the HuAm Ram, yeti Into trie Cimpaay's diaetarf* d i tone cherni- [lx rein aye and did floUilpf about It," ,lhetooddtalo, llllaradb cal lata lie IMm Rlw vwU hist 6e*t ta told reparian ill till die (in telari . fill flesh aid wdi l tht publickotwWyeytxni(aif Htt stole had i lathenny d Dutchns County ichaol id- jhuiMnbody bid i itreatn Freedom at Infonnilto* iwwlnton Art, U Got, tdirj Ami Knput says SIm tailed lor a flroncir Freedom o( In . Til lubdain k pdychto- . Icrmitton Act, w;tr* liut it maid bin toted Wphmri, toller Hw Knpta add WidNidiy Lfhl wed Kent to televat Information la trie ibuniiPCB 11 cfceml'cil has pifltTHit General Electric Ce, which im II that tbe leaned ttb Met ttat the Halt PCB we. - DepariMot of Etrinnraul CtoseroUon hid haem lor 11* pen that CE <* a recent cumptalnt, EnC* rtiryed U mmlKUrt tlicUktl i*ulpmt it Hudsot Fills, dmurelldiutmhpuIfmpelPjeiUllicraladileFdofrct pEtodnwjouHd t*hfat"CUE ImtearHhiadvaewdotnred"uirmrepplniryalb*CleBdaumlo- 1 e-. w- Ifita III iUti Depart ment of MouiMitolCoo- Ida the riv* lerratiai, which Im or- the nver lor more Ihaa X yean PCB. i cbtmlcil ned lor Inaulaiuif purposes, u dICE ten*taipif "I don't Uot ll U`i (enird kiowWfi, total to Ink ejy* ta bis bow lound to .PCS Imi the river tot lEirirownenUl Coaiemtla Cunmu- Must enter u nil. ! The DEC Oder toUewed ihner Ofda) Rod Idd mi personally A aerie* d hcamp b expected to de tie mtoattimi to Aafint gree dayt i(e bat hi jut unewetod the limdM whether CE it dtintpliif each I tfcit stole and lederal re- liet that, the departiiMI xud mini pee- ttmll (mount d trie ciemlc# that <1 baa ftleircben hid Iota lemcenttil|<ni d PCB pie ha lb* borwnerney aid the pncedbi m linnet. MARY ANNE KRUPSAE futk at tar muA at Uc Taf- m Zee liy it Tinyto*. Hurliyi todetermhe PCB ippmwUy It i pod trlal apidlort and Irani- Laboratories near Albany merit" The mmpinv down- Vhdiff the DEC all slut |la da oriar, tad whether ,0 E nil hi durytd nits fnwluil ileliUM, ite be- ,to| held this mth li Alta r ., , erampli ol the caro that b lormin Pwtousty inert In fishmliny mink, Stone one line Ihl dltein fliminabto nraeral olb land he has found I'd! lobe the chemical mi deed- won used lor tbe niM the cause ol atortiuis, trial aped ipprwimatelr M faortln. death, nlrrine ukenand li- pein wo u i m reUr- riot Insurance nyuli- fertility llirdi ht hat stud deal counttar ne la dee- Uni and buildup coda of ied have been misslni plv- ten rtqmre toil i fire reurOnl suviunce be used and Ultra o only one - KB, maye bp or bin had extra plowed um report] of birth defect) Yearly production of PCB bis since dropped Irom C million Ions in 1910 to ft million tom list year Iti'd viynilicant drop, tul what worries Hit sute and environumiUlisli is the poriion - Wlui ia not known M ol toil - aiirrutnl to be yean ayo, and u mil not ThesclrUS manataetnr- between M Md to pounds i ell understood today, li tf of PCU, Momanii Co of day - (hat is beint duniped that K'B b a harenliil In St Louie, to tiled conceded in the Hudson at EC'i lad, Ihi chemical u one d the chemical wii dan*was Hudson Falls Hid Fort Ed In m the Eimronmentol In 1970 when the cmnpaiy Pratedlon Apencr'i hit o( tried (or and reenred per danpmoi subiliKtr - mission Irom ledcral attu llofl{ with mercury lid nes to till I'CB only to the DOT - lILhouph m we electrical uedwtry Al that knowi precuely how dio- lime Moniarlo rtrommend(croni liber whatlldoea nl Iht ban because lb mi- However, hi Japan, where tntisb had (quad PCB to be man; of the mosl (rwaume ''I penulent chemical that effect) ol Indotirlil pollo- build* up ns the tnvinfr tkm have occurred, the cen- 1 Kswnce* d brye dutci of PCU ire all too well known There il ciilnl' who' disease and it causes bmh d 111 c 11, abortions and death wards maitufactarini pfarix Abo worried ore memhen of the Union of Elec tncal Workers Local in m Fort Edwards which repre Pent) woikers al the ( E planb Union officials ire not at all reassured when they read staitmenis Irom the plant manaycr to the clfeel that if C K cannot use PCBi the plant will be shuldown "I hope Imanifemenll will not be so piyheaded that if ihe dun 1 yet what they want they elos* the Ebot" xnd Bernard Leon- 1, urn business agent Legnka said the anioi has token no position on the dis pute between the company and the DEC Bat he indica led the union could hack ei ther side 'Our first obliyalM Is lo (he jobs and to (he people who work here" he sud "Hut as tospayers *< feel industry can (come is and pollute and (hen make the txspaycrs pay lor II" HONS No Amenwni reportedly ' have nlfcied the tale of the Japanese However, host ij (ll ffmett *J PCfl |A Hfli* 205460 -v-