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B4 Austin American-Statesman Friday, April 27. 1979 Cyanide- From Bl Austin chosen to help U.S. test electric cars Panel votes to spends $25,000 to protect $12.14 billion Associated Press The Senate Finance Comrnllj tee voted Thursday to sperta $25,000 on a fire extinguisher system to protect $12.14 biUiorl in securities locked in the vault at the state treasury. ri.ii Director Weldon Horton of the bond division testified there is-a small extinguisher built into the building to protect the air-condi tioning system but nothing to protect the vault area. In the vault, Horton saidare' furniture, equipment and 300,800 "pieces of paper." hydrogen cyanide (and) it will kill you," the former employee said.

May Yang, a chemist at Analytical Center Inc. In Houston, said stable forms of cyanide such as nickel cyanide and cyanide polymer can transform into lethal gasses when their chemical values are changed through the introduction of an acidic substance such as acidic water. Eads said the cyanide and other toxic chemicals he discovered in his analysis will ultimately wash into water bodies near the East Texas subdivision, posing potential widespread environmental dangers. Grizzard said he pleaded with Davis and another Browning-Ferris official to stop mixing the chemical with the road sludge. He said the pleas were unheeded.

On the morning of Nov. 1, Grizzard says he was ordered to prepare 15,000 gallons of cyanide to be mixed into the road sludge intended for distribution in Polk County. Browning-Ferris has a state permit for the "transhipment" of toxic materials such as cyanide to three designated disposal sites in Texas and Louisiana. A chemist with 32 years of experience, Grizzard said he resigned after protesting the mixture of nickel cyanide and cyanide polymer into batches of road sludge. A current employee at the Nederland plant said the company now handles 4,200 gallons of cyanide every "three or four weeks." The employee, who was not identified, said much of that cyanide is being illegally dumped at unauthorized locations.

Sources at Browning-Ferris, a disposal firm for cyanide received as a byproduct from the DuPont chemical plant in Orange, said the poison is stored in one of 12 tanks at the Nederland site used for road sludge. Grizzard contends that the cyanide mixed in the road sludge could be transformed into a lethal gas known as hydrogen cyanide. "The problem is with the pressure. If you have, say, a high temperature and rainfall, then you will release By BRUCE HIGHT American Statesman Staff By the end of the year the city of Austin may have 15 sedans, pickups and vans that laugh aloud at gasoline shortages. The U.S.

Department of Energy has chosen Austin as one of nine entities to receive federal money to test the practicality of electric cars. Les Rogers, director of the city's Vehicle and Equipment Services Department, said the first of the battery-run vehicles may be in town and at work within four to six months. The electric vehicles will not be able to travel more than 70 to 80 miles without recharging, but other than that, their performance should be comparable to asoline-fueled vehicles, Rogers Sod. 1-ich vehicle will have its bat-teryharged overnight, Rogers said, nd the Department of Energy vil help pay for maintenance js)d operational costs, as well as percent of the cost of the vehicle themselves. Just how much those costs will be, he said, is not known yet.

But each vehicle should cost between $8,000 and $10,000, he said. And because the sedans, pickup trucks and small van trucks will replace older gasoline-powered vehicles, he said, the City Council will not have to make any appropriations. The city's share of the cost will come out of its fund for buying new cars. In exchange for the federal money in the four-year program, the city will supply the Energy Department with reports on maintenance and operating costs of the vehicles, as well as any advantages or problems that arise in their use. A spokesman for the federal department said 200 vehicles will be purchased this year in the program, which is designed to assist in the development of electric and hybrid vehicles.

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