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Laptop Computers Under the old rules, said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), the federal government in effect oversaw the transfer of PCB-contaminated properties because the properties could not be sold until the seller proved that the PCBs were gone. Now, she warned, that protection seemed to be lost.
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Laptop Computer "I can't believe they would ease the rules around one of the most persistent and dangerous chemicals known to mankind," Boxer said. "This administration is really waging war against our health."
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Desktop Computer Boxer, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, promised to raise the issue at the confirmation hearing of Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, Bush's nominee to head the EPA. She also said she would introduce legislation to reverse the EPA action.
Notebooks Environmentalists also complained that the change, which took effect in the middle of last month, was made without involving or even informing the public. The EPA released information about its new policy Tuesday, after a story about it appeared in USA Today.
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Hard Drive Tests on animals have shown that PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) cause cancer and can damage immune, reproductive and nervous systems. Studies suggest that humans can be similarly affected. More than 900 families were forced to leave the community of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., 25 years ago because of fear of the effects of PCB contamination.
Travelstar An Aug. 14 memo from the EPA's general counsel about the policy change cites the transfer of the former Navy facility on Mare Island in Northern California to the city of Vallejo as an example of PCB contamination hindering the redevelopment of valuable land.
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Laptop Parts "The PCBs issue did not significantly delay the transfer," said Katherine Taylor, an associate director of EPA's Region 9 office, which covers California. "However, it complicated the transfer."
Software Taylor said the EPA was not aware of any other completed or potential sales or transfers of contaminated property in California where PCBs had been an issue. EPA officials did not cite any examples of cases where the previous policy had prevented redevelopment or was currently blocking redevelopment. But the Aug. 14 memo stressed that the desire to stimulate redevelopment provided the motivation for the policy change.
Hard Drives "[T]he agency is deeply concerned that its previous interpretation of [the Superfund law] could frustrate the intent of the law to encourage the cleanup and return to productive use of contaminated or potentially-contaminated properties," reads the memo, which was signed by EPA general counsel Robert E. Fabricant, who left the agency at the end of last month.
Electronics Many environmental groups said they were taken by surprise by the change and could not tell what impact it would have.
Canon But Julie Wolk, environmental health advocate for U.S. Public Interest Research Group, which represents many organizations in states, said that "taking away one of the few protections we have against some of the most dangerous chemicals in the world is not good for public health."
Desktop Pc "It takes away the incentive to clean up property," Wolk said. Under the old rules, "you were stuck with it until it was clean."
Desktop Computers But EPA spokeswoman Lisa Harrison said that "the buyers still are responsible for the cleanup of the sites."
Think Pad By Elizabeth Shogren
Los Angeles Times - 9/3/2003
Topic: Toxics
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