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UI-LI. AMD KNOWLTON, Inc.. B F GOODRICH Page 6, Section A The Houston Post Thursday, August 24, 1978 6A /The Houston Post/Thurs., Aug. 24, 1978 Chemical plant TACB permit upheld A state district court in Austin has refused to over- to," Thompson said. "And then if we have to, we'll start turn a Texas Air Control Board construction permit for all over again when they apply for an operating permit a controversial $160 million chemical plant in the Bay- for the plant." port industrial complex. The bayshore citizens have been fighting the u Judge Charles Mathews rejected without comment an German-owned chemical plant, under construction appeal by a Galveston Bay citizens group that the air since May, for a year. board acted improperly in approving construction of the American Hoechst Corp. plant- Mathews heard oral arguments last week on a suit by the Galveston Bay Conservation and Preservation Association. ' They contend poDution from the plant will be a haz ard to nearby residential neighborhoods, and the air board did not adequately consider land use in upholding the permit last Feb. 24. *s"`' v,'rdark G. Thomson, the group's attorney, said the rul Hoechst officials and air board engineers say the ing will be appealed.^ 4'1' styrene-polyethylene plant will be a model of pollution "Well be appealing as long as we have a court to go control with extremely low emissions. . . : - ' v-.-i * 0) o BFG17374