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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 27, 1991                   TAG: 9102270557
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-4   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: MARTINSVILLE                                LENGTH: Short

UNSAFE LANDFILLS WON'T GET EXTENSIONS

Public landfills that don't meet existing environmental standards won't get an extra 18 months to comply with tougher new laws, officials said.

The General Assembly voted to move the deadline for closing about 125 landfills across the state from July 1, 1992, to Jan. 1, 1994.

But Sen. Virgil Goode, D-Rocky Mount, who introduced the legislation, said some landfills will be denied the extension because of existing environmental problems. Those landfills will be closed, Goode said.

Localities will have to notify the state Department of Waste Management if they want the extension. Cynthia Bailey, the outgoing director, said the department will review the landfill to determine if it is safe.

"There are some landfills that don't have any business operating today, much less until 1994," she said Monday. "The sooner we get out of bad landfills the better we will be."

- Associated Press

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