Please formulate and implement an effective policy that directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clean-up this and other dumpsites with technologies that are safe, effective and utilize on-site recoveries of these waste producuts so they can be recycled and used as chemical feedstocks. Thank you for your kind attention. Kathleen Israel EXHIBIT ONE Summary of Hazardous Chemical Data from PGE Facility -- San Rafael, CA, Sites 1 and 2 (Studies from August 15, 1984 through September 1989) A. Polynuclear Aromatics -- up to 33,000 ppm. in the soil (BH-40) and up to 2.065 ppm. in the groundwater(3) 1. Acenapthene - up to 2,000 ppm(1). 4. Benz (a) Anthracene - up to 1,200 ppm(1). 5. Benz (b, k) Fluoranthrene - up to 1,400 ppm(1). 6. Benz (g, h, i) Perylene - up to 1,500 ppm(6). 7. Benz (a) Pyrene - up to 2,000 ppm(1). 8. Chrysene - up to 1,000 ppm(4). 9. Dibenzo (a, b) Anthracene - up to 190 ppm(3). 10. Fluoranthrene - up to 6,500 ppm(1). 11. Fluorene - up to 9,600 ppm(6). 12. Indeno (1, 2, 3, c, d) Pyrene - up to 1,200 ppm(1). 13. Naphthalene - up to 13,000 ppm(1). 14. Phenanthrene - up to 9,000 ppm(6). 15. Pyrene - up to 9,000 ppm(6). B. Polychlorinated Biphenyls 1. PCB 1254 - up to 282 ppb. (depth of 3.5 ft.)(7) 2. PCB's (unspecified) - up to 40 ppb. (depth of 16 ft.)(8) 1. Foremost McKesson Environmental Services. Report 2515-006. Table 3. (Samples from 11/2 to 11/5/82). January 7, 1983. Warren C. Steele (sig.). 2. ibid. Table 2. (Samples from 11/2 to 11/5/82). January 7, 1983. Warren C. Steele (sig.). 3. Canonie Engineers. Preliminary Remedial Action Design - San Rafael Service Center. Final Report. Project WC 84-113-03. Table 2. June 1985. 4. Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Field Test, Report 402. 331-89.34. Table 3, page 8. September 26, 1989, Jeff Bachhuber (sig.). 5. Department of Health & Human Services, Memorandum. August 14, 1990, page 2 (VOC's). Brenda Kay Edmonds and Scott v. Wright (sig.). 6. Harding Lawson Associates. Final Risk Appraisal. City of San Rafael Retail Project. Volume II. Table 4-6a. wk1. June 21, 1989. 7. Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Letter to Mr. Dave Zappetini. March 21, 1986. H.M. Howl (sig.). 8. Harding Lawson Associates, Risk Appraisal - San Rafael Retail Project. A7883-H. page 33 of 119. March 29, 1989. EXHIBIT TWO Horizontal retort Yield was 10,000 cu. fl. per ton of coal from Encyclopedia Brittanica 10,000,000,000 cu ft. of gas from 1875 to 1930 1,000,000 tons of coal was processed to produce 10 billion cu. fl. of gas. 1,000,000 tons 2000 lbs per ton 2,000,000,000 lbs of coal was used from 1875 to 1930 Chairman MILLER. Thank you. Congresswoman Boxer? Mrs. BOXER. Yes. I want to thank you very much for being very succinct and to the point, and to let you know something you may not know. Yesterday I was speaking to the Federal Officials. They are involved in this site, as you know. And I was not happy at the pace at which the study was moving forward. We have a meeting set up; it is being set up as we speak, within the next three weeks, where we are getting all the State Agency people together, and all the Federal Agency people together, in an effort to move this study on a very fast track. And we will keep you informed. But they are MS. ISRAEL. Thank you very much. Mrs. BOXER [continuing]. Very concerned and involved. Chairman MILLER. Thank you. Mrs. BOXER. Thank you again. Chairman MILLER. The next panel that the committee will hear from will be made up of Dr. Richard Jackson, who is the Chief of Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment Branch of the California Department of Health Services; Dr. Cynthia Bearer, who is the Director, Division of Pediatric Environmental Health at Children's Hospital, Oakland; Dr. Lynn Goldman, who is the Chief of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology Branch of the California Department of Health Services; Dr. Thomas Jukes, who is at the Department of Biophysics, University of California at Berkeley; and Lawrie Mott, who is the Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco. Welcome to the committee. Again, your written statements and supporting documents will be put in the record in their entirety. And you proceed in the manner in which you are most comfortable. And Dr. Jackson, we will begin with you. STATEMENT OF RICHARD J. JACKSON, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., CHIEF OF THE HAZARD IDENTIFICATION AND RISK ASSESSMENT BRANCH OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES, CHAIRMAN OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, SACRAMENTO, CA Dr. JACKSON. Good morning, and thank you. I am Richard Jackson. I am a pediatrician with further training in epidemiology and preventive medicine, and have had extensive experience in environmental health, especially in the area of pesticides. I am Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Hazards. I am also head of the Risk Assessment Branch of the California Health Department. I am here today to represent the American Academy of Pediatrics, an organization of 39,000 pediatricians interested in the welfare, and dedicated to the well-being of, children. I am grateful to speak to the committee today, and I have three basic messages. 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