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16 The Daily News, Thursday, July 15, 1982 EPA Moves To Control Hazardous Waste Disposal tions is a permitting process for landfills, surface impoundments, waste piles and land treatment units. Nearly 10,000 storage, treatment and disposal sites are operating under interim standards. The new rules will affect more than 2,000 land disposal sites. The standards do not cover wells that inject hazardous wastes above underground sources of drinking water. Final regulations for such facilities have not yet been developed, the agency said.

Contrary to the agencys asser- tions, it is quite feasible to improve the design of many existing facilities, particularly pits, ponds, lagoons and waste piles, argued defense fund attorney David Lennett. The weak standards for existing facilities, he said, indicate that EPA has still not completely turned the comer and committed itself to strict controls on hazardous waste disposal. The hgencys primary tool for enforcing the hazardous waste regula protects human health and the environment. Among the first environmental groups to comment was the Environmental Defense Fund, which lauded the agencys decision to require that new land disposal sites are designed to prevent ground water contamination and to require A cleanup in case leakage does occur. But the group blasted the EPA for not imposing the same kind of preventive requirement on existing dump sites.

WASHINGTON (UPI) Acting to prevent future Love Canals, the Environmental Protection Agency is imposing regulations for hazardous waste disposal sites aimed at protecting public health and the nations ground water supply. Culminating six years of research, legislative battles and litigation, the agency on Tuesday unveiled final standards for storing hazardous wastes on land for the first time enforcing design and construction rules on such potentially dangerous facilities. Hie announcement came as EPA Environmental groups, while praising parts of the program, immediately took issue with Mrs. Gorsuch. They noted the standards make significant distinctions between new and existing disposal areas imposing less stringent preventive requirements on operators of current dump sites.

The regulations are authorized by the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which requires the EPA to establish a national regulatory program to ensure hazardous wastes are managed in a way that officials prepared to release a long-awaited report today on chemical contamination at the Love Canal neighborhood in Niagara Falls. The agencys findings are expected to have a major effect on efforts to revitalize the neighborhood, where toxic chemicals were found seeping into the basements and yards of homes in 1978. EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch said the new regulations will ensure that the health of the American people will not be compromised and that their drinking water will be fully protected. Lottery Schaeffer Speaks To A ARP Chapter kelberger, program chairman. Meetings will be held the first Wednesday of each month, because that is the only time the senior center is available.

Esther Papson, president, was in charge of the meeting. As of July 1 there were 1S6 paid-up members. The charter was closed as of July 7. Lester Noel, York, representative of AARP, brought literature and greetings from the national group. Refreshments were served.

Raymond Schaeffer of the Pennsylvania Lottery Bureau was the speaker at a recent meeting of the newly-formed Lebanon County Chapter, American Association of Retired Persons, in the Senior Center, Seventh and Maple streets. Schaeffer said that the lotteries which are conducted by Pennsylvania are among the best in the nation and that they dont cost the taxpayers one cent. He described how the funds obtained from the lotteries are used for various purposes to help the elderly. He also brought regards from the director of the Pennsylvania lotteries, Lynn Nelson of Lebanon. Nelson, he said, is recognized as one of the foremost authorities in the world on lotteries and returned recently from a conference held in Switzerland.

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It is unprecedented in the history of American medicine, said Dr. James W. Curran, head of a Centers for Disease Control Task Force on the immune deficiency syndrome, first identified in 1980 as possibly epidemic and highly fatal among male homosexuals, but which also affects heterosexuals. One form of it is a rare cancer Kaposis sarcoma that previously only struck aging Jewish and Italian men, causing tumors on the legs. Another form is a highly fatal rare pneumonia.

Some 413 cases of the gay plague have been reported since 1981 and 155 of the victims are dead. Eighty-five percent of the victims are under 45 and the median age is 35. There has been a 50 percent increase in cases reported to the CDC in the past three months, said Dr. Charles Chalmers, president of Mount Sinai Medical Center. Unfortunately this is growing and will continue to grow, he said.

We are faced with an epidemic of quite large proportions and unsettling. Not since Legionnaires disease have we had an epidemic of this proportion. There was one case per day reported in the last halfof 1981, Chalmers said. 'Since February, there have been reports bf 1.5 cases per day. In the past six weeks 2.5 cases per day are being reported.

Curran said it seems only to affect a host whose immune system has been wiped out. The immune system helps the body fight life-threatening agents. When it is wiped out, Curran said, the host is a target for scavengers. No one knows if the scavanger in gay plague is a virus or some other agent. Several factors under investigation strengthen the theory that a mystery infectious agent may be involved, Curran says.

Suspected agents could include a new virus, a changed virus or something not seen before, doctors participating in the conference suggested, At high risk for gay plague are male homosexuals and people who take illicit drugs intravenously, Curran said. Cases have been reported among people who need multiple transfusions due to disorders blood clotting disorders. Utility Boards Plan Attacked HARRISBURG (UPI) The Pennsylvania Electric Association has come out strongly against legislation to seat customers on the boards of directors of privately-owned utilities, saying such a move would be illegal. Both the common law and Pennsylvania statute recognize the right of stockholders to vote on the persons who will manage their investment, said PEA President Vincent Butler. Appointment of consumer representatives to utility boards disenfranchises stockholders and raises a serious question of (management) accountability.

Butler testified against the bill, which would seat at least two public representatives on utility boards, before the Senate Consumer Protection Committee Tuesday. Under the legislation, the citizen board members would be selected by an advisory committee appointed by the governor and would be paid for their services. The bill was one of numerous so-called utility reform measures approved by the House earlier this session. Butler said the measure would place a legal cloud over all actions by boards of directors with consumer representatives. He argued appointees would be hard put to represent the varying interests of customers.

Low-use, medium-use and high-use residential often have interests in conflict with each other, he said. To which consumer group or groups will consumer representatives be accountable? Representatives of the Philadelphia-based Consumer Education Protective Association, the Pittsburgh-based Pennsylvania Alliance for Jobs Energy and the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project endorsed the concept of consumer involvement in utility However, CEPA spokesman Max Weiner argued in favor of unionizing utility customers for representation in rate-making decisions. Its been our experience that residential customer concerns are generally only given lip service," said Otto Hoffman, atorney for the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project..