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said Toffel. “I think it’s going to be a very, very big project. It’s taken us a long time to stablize the plant.”
U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, R-VA, said a Senate subcommittee will hold a hearing, at his request, “using Avtex as an example of a situation where few people know about what’s going on behind the closed plant doors.”
Warner was instrumental in the 1988 federal bail out when it appeared that the the government would lose the only source of carbonized rayon.
”No one knew about this plant. No one knew about the environmental situation,” said Warner.
The subcommittee on toxic substances and environmental research is scheduled to hold a hearing on Avtex Wednesday, June 20 to determine the adequacy of federal laws intended to protect the environment and public health and safety.
The EPA has also been instructed by Congress to conduct a study to determine the extent of contamination of the river. A progress report is due by the end of this month with a final report due by Dec. 31. Regardless of the report, EPA officials say theyare limited in what they can do to clean the river.
“It’s very difficult to say you are going to clean up an entire river,” said Francesca DiCosmo, EPA spokeswoman.
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