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KF27 P89632 1953f

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION

JAMES J. HOWARD, New Jersey, Chairman

GLENN M. ANDERSON, California
ROBERT A. ROE, New Jersey
JOHN B. BREAUX, Louisiana
NORMAN Y. MINETA, California
ELLIOTT H. LEVITAS, Georgia
JAMES L. OBERSTAR, Minnesota
HENRY J. NOWAK, New York
ROBERT W. EDGAR, Pennsylvania
ROBERT A. YOUNG, Missouri

NICK JOE RAHALL II, West Virginia
DOUGLAS APPLEGATE, Ohio
GERALDINE A. FERRARO, New York
BRIAN J. DONNELLY, Massachusetts
DONALD JOSEPH ALBOSTA, Michigan
RON DE LUGO, Virgin Islands
GUS SAVAGE, Illinois

FOFO I.F. SUNIA, American Samoa
KATIE HALL, Indiana

DOUGLAS H. BOSCO, California
JAMES F. MCNULTY, JR., Arizona
JIM MOODY, Wisconsin

ROBERT A. BORSKI, Pennsylvania
JOE KOLTER, Pennsylvania
TIM VALENTINE, North Carolina
EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York
WILLIAM O. LIPINSKI, Illinois
MICHAEL A. ANDREWS, Texas

TOM J. VANDERGRIFF, Texas

J. ROY ROWLAND, Georgia

JAMES MCCLURE CLARKE, North Carolina

ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia

GENE SNYDER, Kentucky

JOHN PAUL HAMMERSCHMIDT, Arkansas
BUD SHUSTER, Pennsylvania
ARLAN STANGELAND, Minnesota
NEWT GINGRICH, Georgia

WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR., Pennsylvania
GUY MOLINARI, New York

E. CLAY SHAW, JR., Florida
BOB MCEWEN, Ohio
FRANK WOLF, Virginia
THOMAS E. PETRI, Wisconsin
HAL DAUB, Nebraska
LYNN MARTIN, Illinois
VIN WEBER, Minnesota
ROBERT F. (BOB) SMITH, Oregon
DON SUNDQUIST, Tennessee
NANCY L. JOHNSON, Connecticut
RON PACKARD, California

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Blankenbaker, Ronald G., M.D., health commissioner, Indiana State Board of

Health; accompanied by David Lamm, director, Division of Land Pollution

Control, Indiana State Board of Health; James Hunt, Division of Land

Pollution Control, Indiana State Board of Health; Pat Berger, Indiana State

Board of Health; Jim Knoy, Division of Land Pollution Control, Indiana

State Board of Health; and Jack Watson, assistant attorney general, State

of Indiana...

Bailey, Hon. William C., mayor, city of Seymour, Seymour, IN.......
Hamilton, Hon. Lee, Representative in Congress from the State of Indiana........
Lucero, Gene A., director, Office of Waste Programs Enforcement; accompa-
nied by Richard H. Mays, Senior Enforcement Counsel, Office of Enforce-
ment and Compliance Monitoring, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency....
Smith, Judith, president, Seymour League of Women Voters, Seymour, IN.......
Vance, William E., receiver, Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN...

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Letter, dated June 3, 1982, to Hon. Robert Orr, Governor of Indiana,
concerning Seymour Recycling Corp ...

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Letter, dated June 17, 1982, to John B. Bottorff, executive vice president,
Greater Seymour Chamber of Commerce, concerning the Seymour Re-
cycling Corp....

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Chemical Waste Management Technical Center; Special Waste Analysis
Report, dated February 3, 1983..

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Cook, Michael B., Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Hazardous Emergency Response:

Memo, dated June 23, 1981, to Bill Constantelos, Deputy Director, Air and Hazardous Materials Division, subject: Potential State Funding Requirements for CERCLA clean up of the Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN Environmental Management Board, Indianapolis, IN; envelope, dated June 15, 1979, Seymour Recycling photos. Fields, Richard W., Bingham, Summers, Welsh, & Spilman, Indianapolis, IN: Letter, dated November 18, 1983, to Robert S. Prolman, professional staff member, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, re United States of America, et al. v. Seymour Recycling, et. al., U.S.D.C., Southern District, Indiana, Cause No: IP80-456-C.

Gatte, Robert, Public Health Sanitarian:

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Letter, dated February 6, 1980, to Hon. Chris Moritz, mayor of Seymour, re Seymour Recycling Corp...

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Gray, Terry, Division of Land Pollution Control:

Memo, dated June 28, 1983, through Jim Hunt, Guinn Doyle, Karen E. Evans, and David D. Lamm to Seymour Recycling File; subject: Seymour Recycling Inspection of June 23, 1983

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Hunt, Jim, Division of Land Pollution Control, Indiana State Board of Health:
Memo dated May 20, 1977, to the files, subject: Seymour Recycling-
Seymour, IN....

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Summary request for enforcement action Seymour Recycling, Inc., Seymour and summary request for denial of permit renewal Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN..

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Memo, dated May 17, 1978, to the file, subject: Inspection Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN..

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Agreed order, file dated June 30, 1978, in the Jackson Circuit Court,
Environmental Management Board of the State of Indiana, Plantiff vs.
Seymour Recycling Corp., Defendant.

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Letter, dated September 14, 1978, to Joe Krieger concerning discharge to sanitary sewer, Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour

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Memo, dated September 28, 1978, to the file, subject: Inspects September 26 & 27, 1978, Seymour Recyling, Seymour, IN

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Memo, dated, January 9, 1979, through David Lamm, Chester Canham, and Oral Hert to Ralph C. Pickard, subject: Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN

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Memo, dated May 7, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. files, Seymour, IN, subject: Inspections of April 3 and April 4, 1979.

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Memo, dated June 5, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. files, subject: Spill
Incidents.....

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Memo, dated July 2, 1979, to the file, subject: Seymour Recycling—
Seymour, IN

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Memo, dated July 5, 1979, to the file, subject: SEC-Seymour

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Memo, dated July 10, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. files, subject:
Inspection of June 15, 1979.

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Memo, dated July 18, 1979, to the file, subject: Employee complaint,
Seymour Recycling.

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Memo, dated July 23, 1979, to the file, subject: Inspection of July 23, 1979.
Memo, dated August 7, 1979, to the Seymour Recycling file, subject:
Inspection of July 11, 1979..

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Memo, dated August 29, 1979, to the file SRC, subject: Transportation by
Multichem, Bowling Creek, KY..

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Memo, dated July 28, 1982, through Ralph C. Pickard, David D. Lamm, and Guinn Doyle to Ronald G. Blankenbaker, M.D., State health commissioner, subject: Status of Seymour Recycling.

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Letter, dated September 1, 1983, to Alisa Yihara, U.S. EPA, Office of
Solid Waste, re Seymour Recycling

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Additional testimony

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Indiana Environmental Management Board:

Indiana Environmental Managment Act, IC 13-7, as Amended, Article 7...
LSA Document #1-62(F), Article 4. "Hazardous Waste Management
Permit Program and Related Hazardous Waste Management Require-
ments"

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Industrial Waste Haulers Permit Regulations..

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Indiana Solid Waste Disposal Law, dated September 1, 1981, IC 36–9-30, supersedes IC 19-2-1, Refuse Disposal Act....

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Indiana State Board of Health:

List of field note documents concerning pollution problems at the Sey- Page mour Recycling Corp. site..

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Water Sample Identification Sheet, report dated August 23, 1979
Solid Waste Management Permits, Rule 320 IAC 5.

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May 1983 Organization chart...

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Kelley, Tim, Indianapolis State Board of Health: Memo, dated April 28, 1980, to Seymour Recyling File, subject: Observations of Cleanup by O & H Materials on April 9, and 10, 1980...

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Knoy, Jim, Division of Land Pollution Control:

Memo, dated December 27, 1982, through Ralph C. Pickard, David D.
Lamm, and Karen E. Evans to Ronald G. Blankenbaker, M.D., State
Health Commissioner, subject: Surface Water Treatment System at
Seymour Recycling Corp..

Memo, dated January 26, 1983, through Karen E. Evans, David D. Lamm,
and Ralph C. Pickard to Ronald G. Blankenbaker, M.D., State Health
Commissioner, subject: Spill of Hazardous Wastes from Seymour Recy-
cling......

Memo, dated June 6, 1983, through Karen E. Evans, James M. Hunt, and
David D. Lamm to Seymour Recycling file, subject: Seymour Recycling
Inspection.....

Memo, dated June 15, 1983, through Karen Evans, James Hunt, and
David D. Lamm to Seymour Recycling file, subject: Seymour Recycling
Inspection.

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Memo, dated August 30, 1983, through Karen E. Evans to Seymour
Recycling file, subject: Seymour Recycling Inspection.......

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Memo, dated August 31, 1983, through Karen E. Evans to Seymour
Recycling file, subject: Seymour Recycling Inspection.......
Memo, dated September 8, 1983, through Karen E. Evans to Seymour
Recycling file, subject: Seymour Recycling Inspection...

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Lamm, David D., director, Division of Land Pollution Control, Indiana State Board of Health; additional testimony for the record regarding the chemical waste management cleanup proposal....

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Lisella, Frank S., Ph.D., Assistant Director for Programs, Chronic Diseases
Division, CEH:

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Memo, dated August 11, 1983, to Georgi Jones, Chief, Superfund Implementation Group, Center for Environmental Health, subject: Seymour, IN Lugar, Richard G., United States Senate, Washington, DC; letter, dated December 23, 1981, to Ann Gorsuch, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, concerning the mitigation of a hazardous waste site located in Seymour, IN. McKinney, Michael, general manager, ENRAC, Chemical Waste Management, Inc.; letter, dated February 16, 1983, to Indiana State Board of Health to the attention of Jim Knoy, concerning the truck accident involving waste materials from the Seymour facility...

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Orr, Robert D., Governor of Indianapolis; letter, dated May 11, 1982, to Hon.
Richard G. Lugar, U.S. Senator, concerning the "fast track" action at the
Seymour Recycling site in Jackson County.

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Pickard, Ralph C., Technical Secretary, Environmental Management Board:
Letter, dated August 9, 1978, to Mr. William Kovacs, Seymour Recycling
Corp., re Status of Compliance.

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Memo, dated November 16, 1978, to Hon. Theodore L. Sendak, Attorney
General and Michael Schaefer, Assistant Attorney General, subject:
Seymour Recycling Corp.

Letter, dated November 28, 1978, to Craig Sparks, Arent, Fox, Kintner,
Plotkin & Kahn, Federal Bar Building, Washington, DC, re Seymour
Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN.

Memo, dated December 15, 1978, to Hon. Theodore L. Sendak, Attorney
General and Mike Schaefer, Assistant Attorney General, subject: EMB
vs. Seymour Recycling, Inc., Case No. 78 C-53, Jackson Circuit Court.....
Letter, dated December 14, 1981, to Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, subject: Indiana's Share of
Clean-Up Costs of Seymour Recycling Under the Comprehensive Envi-
ronmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act...

Shipe, Dave, State Board of Health, Indianapolis; memo, dated, October 24, 1978, through John Winters to Jim Hunt, subject: Seymour Recycling triethanolamine spill, Seymour, Jackson County....

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Smith, Judith, president, Seymour League of Women Voters, Seymour IN;
statement..

Stallsmith, Joseph C., chief, Enforcement and Operations Branch, Division of
Water Pollution Control; letter, dated October 4, 1978, to Hon. Donald H.
Ernest, mayor, city of Seymour, re Unauthorized discharges, Seymour Recy-
cling Corp....
Statement of the Indiana Attorney General's Office; "Chronological Summary
of the Indiana Attorney General's Involvement in Seymour Recycling Cor-
poration".

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: "Outline of Proposed Settlement
Policy for Hazardous Waste Enforcement Cases", unpublished white paper ..
Vecera, Tina, enclosed an article entitled "Lack of Evidence of Offenses
Allowed SRC to Stay In Business".

Waste Management Inc.; list of Indiana landfills.

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