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By GEORGE BOWLES
The love affair between Virginia’s government and her business community, while legendary, is usually as discreet as, say, a romance between a minister's wife and the head deacon.
Occasionally, however, it becomes so passionate and steamy that discretion is thrown to the winds.
So it was last month when Vepco found itself in a bit of a scrape with the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA, it seems, planned to levy fines of $53,OCX) against Vepco for allegedly failing to prevent toxic wastes from leaking from a Richmond storage site into a nearby creek.
The state agency responsible for policing such storage procedures and making certain they do not endanger our streams and rivers is the Water Control Board.
Understandably, Vepco sought to have the fines reduced.
Officials of the company contacted officials of the Water Control Board and asked for a letter, to be presented to the EPA, assuring the federal agency that, as far as the Commonwealth was concerned, Vepco’s procedures were adequate for controlling ground water problems.
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