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

DATE: SATURDAY, May 20, 1995                   TAG: 9505220068
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

TRAVELING TRASH MAY SOON BE RESTRICTED

A bill that grew in part out of the Kim-Stan landfill controversy in Alleghany County, Va., took another step forward Thursday, as a House of Representatives subcommittee approved it without major dissent.

The bill, pushed by Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, should come before the full House Commerce Committee early next month.

The bill would give local governments the right to regulate the importation of out-of-state garbage into private landfills. A Senate version was approved 94-6 Tuesday.

Regulation became an issue in the Kim-Stan case, when the local government found itself powerless to stop the importation of waste into the poorly designed and run private landfill near Clifton Forge. The state shut down the operation in 1990.

Boucher called Kim-Stan just "one example among hundreds of instances in which landfill developers have forced out-of-state garbage on unwilling communities."

The bill may face a tough time, given the anti-regulatory mood in Congress. Rep. Thomas J. Bliley, R-Richmond, chairman of the Commerce Committee, indicated his panel would consider the bill despite his concerns.

``By restricting the interstate movement of waste and by allowing local governments to designate facilities to which trash must go, we are tying the hands of successful market competitors,'' Bliley said.

by CNB