
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, December 24, 1993                   TAG: 9312240100
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

COMMUNITIES NEED NOT PAY CLEANUP COSTS

A federal judge ruled Thursday that municipalities and small businesses cannot be asked to pay a share of hazardous-waste cleanups at landfills that mixed their ordinary trash with toxic chemicals.

The ruling applies only to communities or small businesses whose garbage did not contain any of the hazardous substances the Environmental Protection Agency specifically calls toxic in the nation's Superfund regulations.

Judge Peter Dorsey of the U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., said the fact the waste contains items made with the listed toxics isn't the same as direct disposal of the raw chemicals. - Associated Press

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