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...dogged by questions about his recent appointment of Anne Burford to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere; Burford was forced to resign as head of the Environmental Protection Agency last year amid allegations of conflict of interest and mismanagement of its toxic-waste fund. The EPA payroll had been reduced by 4,300 employees because of Reagan's budget cuts, and work has been completed on only 120 of the nation's 7,000 hazardous waste sites since he took office. Said Adrienne Weissman of the Sierra Club: "He must think we've been living...
...fact, the three-year appointment to the unsalaried 18-member advisory panel, which advises Congress and the Ad ministration, was made quite deliberately. When Burford left EPA in March 1983 amid charges of mismanagement of the agency's toxic-waste-cleanup fund, Reagan told her he would eventually want her back. But the decision to make the controversial move the day before the luncheon was unplanned. Said White House Chief of Staff James Baker: "We all approved the appointment, but none of us approved the timing...
Federal research grants in the past few years have been accompanied by increasingly restrictive terms, recent contracts with traditionally liberal agencies like the EPA and Department of Health and Human Services have included provisions for stricter publication review, technical direction by the sponsor, and funding rules...
...EPA last year announced plans to issue waste-ship operating permits before it had set formal regulations for ocean incineration. The agency's pace led to protests. At open hearings in Brownsville last November, more than 6,000 demonstrators, including Texas Governor Mark White, confronted EPA officials. They argued that a spill at sea could destroy the shrimp and tourist industries on the south Texas coast. When the EPA answered that this eventuality was remote, White commented, "No one believed the Titanic could sink either...
Prodded by the urgency of the need for a solution to the mounting piles of toxic wastes, the EPA is expected to approve burning at sea by the end of the year. The agency is now recommending four test burns totaling 3.3 million gal. to study efficiency and resolve uncertainties about environmental impact. Attorney Peter Arnow, a Louisiana department of justice official who is critical of the EPA, sadly notes that ocean burning seems inevitable. Says he: "On land you have neighbors. But there is no political opposition from the fish." -ByJ.D. Reed. Reported by Jay Branegan/ Washington, with other...