
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 8, 1990                   TAG: 9004080154
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

WASTE PLANTS READY TO FIGHT EPA LIMITS

Waste treatment plants alleged to be discharging toxic water pollution are prepared to fight stringent limits for chemicals if they are imposed.

More than 90 percent of the waste treatment plants on a list of 39 alleged toxic pollution sources have protested to the Environmental Protection Agency, said Thomas Henry, the agency's regional coordinator for water toxics.

EPA officials met publicly Thursday with representatives of cities, companies and military bases included on the list, which was released last month.

EPA attorney Christopher Day said appeals could be made to federal court.

The agency will propose the plans - limits and schedules for reducing chemical concentrations in waste water - to the water board, which must produce draft permits by June 4.

If the plant operators can prove the EPA incorrectly included them on the list, they would not have to do anything further, Day said. "The process would end there."

by CNB