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

DATE: TUESDAY, January 25, 1994                   TAG: 9401250127
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

COAL-DUST BILL ACTION PUT OFF UNTIL 1995

A state Senate committee on Monday deferred until 1995 action on a bill requiring railroads to control the release of coal dust from trains.

"My patience has run out," said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Madison Marye, D-Shawsville. "I've tried to ask the railroads to do it."

But a railroad lobbyist and other members of the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee said railroads are trying to curb coal-dust pollution from trains running between the Southwest Virginia coalfields and Hampton Roads ports.

"They have spent an awful lot of money trying to solve this problem," said Sen. Elliot Schewel, D-Lynchburg, who heads a commission studying coal-dust pollution in residential neighborhoods.

Bruce Wingo, a lobbyist for Norfolk Southern Corp., said the railroads should have a solution by next year's session.

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