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Friday, June 27, 1975 Th* Potl.Cr*<*nf, At>cie1eftNe*nohMr,n>ho.WU. Public hearings ordered on PCBs A-5 ' )`<Mt*Cr<rscoMf Madison bureau that have been proposed could probably lions aboul the right of the state to act If ; MADISON - The state Hoard of Natu- not be accommodated by waste paper technicians cannot recommend other re . ral Resources Thursday ordered public recycling operations as now conducted, placement materials to industry, hearing* on proposals lo prohibit the one state technician said. The board authorised the public hear. ,, use* of industrial chemicals known as # Board member, several of whom are togs hy a vote of four to two. John Hro- ? polychlorinaled biphenyls (PCBs) or to * new to their scats, disputed spiritedly Ran of Green Bay, attending his second authorise (heir use only under strict about proposing a total prohibition on meeting as a member, abstained. He regulation and in severely limited quon* (he use of the material, or imposing lim- had earlier put into the record the fact of v titles. The materials are absorbed in the vis* . its In parts per million of waste water discharges. bis stock holdings In the Fort Howard Paper Company o( Green Bay. ' sues of fish and arc dangerous to human A department technician said (he ma- Clifford Messingcr, n new board health, according to technical findings. (crial is being discharged into public member, said the state should lead in ; Federal food and drug authorities hove waters from other than industrial `the effort to indentify alternate mate- Impounded some fish catches recently ^sources, and said such residues are so rials for indusiry. ! bccatlsc of the PCB problem. abundant that even snow melt contains The public hearings would be prcliim- , The chemical is widely used in Indus* them. nary to a proposalfor action by the stole try, and notably In elect) lea) generating Discussion showed that the state of legislature. _ ____ , plants. The materials arc typically . technical knowledge about alternatives ~ " ~ .. ' found in waste paper dispatched for re- . is apparently sparse. But members of ' / cycling, and thus any state control the board were told that Sweden and Ja would immediately affect several major pan have acted to enact controls.* ' , Fox Valley pnper recycling enterprises, "We must rattle the cage too," re j` observers said. ' marked Lawrence Dahl of -Tigerton, a I* ' Even some of (he more mild controls board member, as he heard reserve* MONS 028797