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Lead Industries Association , Inc.
292 Madison Avenu# New York. N. Y. 10017 Telephone: (212) 532-2373
Environmental Health Department
DATE; TO:
July 14, 1978 All Members of Lead Industries Association, Inc.
FROM:
Jerome F. Cole
Gentlemen:
In several previous letters to the membership of the Lead Industries Association, we have stressed the value of communications in develop ing a broader understanding among the public and thought leaders of the problems the industry faces from proposed environmental and occupational regulations.
An excellent example of such communications efforts is that of St. Joe Minerals Corporation. We are enclosing a few examples of the newspaper articles and television interviews generated by this program. Many other articles were published in Missouri newspapers and a large number of television interviews were aired.
We thought these examples might be helpful to you in formulating your own communications plans.
Sincerely,
Jerome F. Cole, Sc.D. Director, Environmental Health
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PACE ? UAH r NEWS Of MUCHA I MONDAY. JUNE 1? 1971
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Today's editorials
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STREETS AND SUM'S Ann Street improvements have been in Festus seem to have
been pending for a long time. The delays have ^ecn so numerous it feels like the work
began sometime just after the sinking of the Titanic. Draw your own connections.
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
The Illinois legislature narrowly defeated approval of the
Equal Rights Amendment.
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Two crucial votes ended as abstentions, with the legislators
not voting for or against
Rep. Edmund Komowics of Chicago was asked why he aba- I
tained:
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"As for as I'm concerned, I was for it. 1 wanted to vote. But
the abstention Kronowics
was
just one of those
things"
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Did "the force" stop him?
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The other interesting quote comes from Wellston where the |
city has bought a $16,000 Cadillac Fleetwood for the use of the
mayor.
The mayor said the car "helps improve the image of the ci ty."
It is a wild world.
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^REASONABLE")
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ObvidUSly UlETarea has much at stake in the continued suc
cess and operation of the St. Joe Minerals plant at Her
culaneum
It would follow that efforts of the Environmental Protection
Agency to jam air standards down St. Joe's smokestack would
not gain much favor here.
They don't.
It is unfair for the BPA to arbitrarily set air quality stan
dards, without also setting out some very specific answers. t
How much does EPA think the meeting of their standards will
cost the company? Specifically, how would EPA demonstrate
to the company that standards can be met without spending
such huge sums of the money that compliance is impractical |
anyway?
And what of the economic impact if a plant cannot either find
a physical or practical economic way to comply, and must
close.
How does EPA calculate the loss of jobs and damage to
economy, vs. the result of meeting a clean air standard?
EPA coldly says, matter of factly, that spme smelters won t ,
meet the standard, but that wasn't taken in o account when
determining levels.
That is a ridiculous attitude.
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Common sense must have a place in EPA considerations.
They should be asking themselves what standards industry can '
meet, still operate in a profitable manner, yet improve air stan
dards. !
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The bureaucracy must adapt a level of common sense in
*i crucial matters like these.
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HILLSBORO, MISSOURI- WEDNESDAY. JUNE 14. 1978
ISSUE NUMBER 18
Proposed stondord would close Herky plant
EPA rules threaten St. Joe's future
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Herculaneum's primary kad snMltin| plant. Iht world's largest. may be forced to close down by 1361 if federal air standards are oot reined
That was the gnm conchaion reached by John A Wnght. presidcnl of St Joe lead Company Wnght said the lead company would not be able *o comply with the current lead ambient air quality standard established by the En vironmental Protection Agency lEPA).
"We will not sunnvethe industry will go belly
up." he declared at a Clayton press con ference Wednesday
EPA's proposed air standard seta a ceiling of l 3 micrograms of lead per cubic meter of air, figured so a 30-day
average St Joe officials say that requirement a infeasible" and "unnecesaary " They argue that a standard of S4
nucrograms Is recognis ed os protecting human well-being as effectively as the EPA proposal.
"As far as we can see it d the 1 S standard Hands, the lead smelting plants will go out of business." ssid Csry E welch. Director ef Cor porate Environmental Planning for St Joe
We really doi t think thp Herculaneum plant can be brought into com pliance "
EPA s expected lo issue a final ambient air
quality standard this summer. States would then be required to develop plans for EPA approval, demonstrating how they would attain the lead standard by 19*3 and maintain it thereafter
While St Joe officials contend they can't meet the 1 5 standard, they say a standard <f 10 micrograms per cubic meter, figured on a 30day average, could pro bably be met St. Joe president Wright elaima it would take $S million to meet even t S O stan
dard and $13 million per year in additional operating costa
According to the Lead Industries Association
(L1AI, retention ef the I.S standard would mean a loss of 3.300 jobs na
tionwide. at least 3.700 of these in Missouri (The Herculaneum plant employs seme 650 peopiei An addition*! S.000 Miuoun )oba could be lost indirectly, and some consumer products would encounter sharp price increases
The LlA says the economic impact of the
$47 miliioo loss io
payroll* would be mat
severe in Crawford.
Dent, Iron, Jefferson.
Madison, Reynolds, St
Francois, St Louis and
Washington counties
PA became involved
with establishing a stan
dard for airborne kad In
197S, foUowtng a suit
brought against it by the
Natural Resources
Defense Council and
other* A US district
court in New York dirt
ied the KPA to develop
such a standard
An EPA report, dated
last
December,
acknowledged the
possibility of industrial V
difficulties in complying**"^*'
with the 1.S standard. Itrjs1-*. I'-'
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"Pram the inform*- wa.A!,
bon available Is the
Agency, it done appear
tbkl non- ferreua smelters may have dif
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ficulty in achieving lhe
ST. JOE MINEflALS-Aa aerial view ef the plant at Hertnlaoeea
proposed standard in
areas immediately adja cent to the smelter com plex While the passible imped of the standard on these facilities is ef
great concern In EPA . these impacts have not entered Into
determination of Uw level of the standard "
Charles W. Whipmore. EPA stale coordinator la Kansas City, said the
standard was not directed specifically at the lead smellers or the
term "emission limitadon" ould have been used.
According to EPA Itatiktta. 30% of lead emissions mult Iron gasoline combustion. 3%
Iran the combustion of
crankcase oil and coal, Sevrn lead smelling
and another 3% from in oprratione in the I S
dustry St. Joe officials say are aliened py the EPA
they are responsible for only 1% of an lead emitted in to the air.
standard The U 3 presently supplies U% of its own lead needs
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BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. 25 East Friaco Avs. 8t Louis. Mo. 63119 314/96M113
news
retrieval
network
Data: 6/7/78
Client: st. Joe Lead Company Station: KSD-TV
time verbatim transcript
6:00 p.m
PATRICK EMORY: Missouri may suffer a severe economic setback if
a new federal air pollution rule is put into effect.
The head of the St. Joe Lead Company told a
luncheon meeting in St. Louis today that the lead industry just cannot meet the new 1.5 microgram standard from an economic standpoint. Later he told Chris Condon how the Environmental Protection Agency came out with the new proposal.
JOHN WRIGHT: "...pressure from some environmentalist groups who want clean air period (to come out with the standard}. They have not looked at the economic impact at what
this does for this state of Missouri or for the country or anything else."
CHRIS CONDON:
"How many jobs would it mean in this area?"
JOHN WRIGHT: "Right now there's about thirty-one hundred people employed in the lead mining and smelting business in
Missouri. If the regulation came down, I think three-quarters of those would
probably lose their jobs over a three to four year period."
CHRIS CONDON: "What communities are these in?"
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JOHN WRIGHT: "The smelters are in Herculaneum, Missouri, just south of St. Louis. The other two smelters are in the southeastern part of
the state in (Buick) and (Glover) and there's about eight operating mines in the
same area. So these are the areas which are Jefferson County, Washington County, Crawford County, these areas would be the ones hurt the most."
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BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. 25 East Frlico Ava. St Louis. Mo. 63119 314/961-4113
news
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Date: 6/7/78
Client: St. Joe Lead Company
Station: KSD-TV
page 2
time verbatim transcript
6:00 p.m. continued
PATRICK EMORY:
Last December, you may recall, about a thousand Missourians lost their jobs when an iron ore plant closed down near Steelville.
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