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By W. MICHAEL MCCABE
F..P.A. Regional Administrator
Flashback to the early 70s ir Hopewell, Virginia: ManufajiTtfljinj; workers were getting sick onaheJob The sewage treatment plant frepi shutting down for no apparent rea: son. This was just the kind .of mys tery that called for the sleuths at the fledgling Environmental Protectior Agency.
The EPA was called in and the} discovered the culprit — the chemica Kepone. Soon, a huge clean-up effor was underway. Extraordinary damagi had already been done. Dangerou levels of the chemical were found ii finfish down the James River and inti the Chesapeake Bay. Before long fisheries were closed and waterme lost their livelihoods. Ilealth care an clean-up costs soared.
The story of Kepone an Hopewell is an all-top-common on in the 25-year historynCjthe EPA Communities across the natioTh-wer faced with environmental disaster and the need for both an immediaU emergency response as well as a lonj: term strategy to, revitalize the watei land, air and the communities their selves.
President Richard M. Nixo signed the EPA into existence 2 years ago this month. Since then, th Agency has been in the forefront (
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