HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTAMINATION OF WATER RESOURCES (Superfund Clean-up Policy and the Seymour (98-77) HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 18; DECEMBER 14, 15, 1983 Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORTATION JAMES J. HOWARD, New Jersey, Chairman GLENN M. ANDERSON, California FOFO I.F. SUNIA, American Samoa DOUGLAS H. BOSCO, California ROBERT A. BORSKI, Pennsylvania 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 ARLAN STANGELAND, Minnesota WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR., Pennsylvania E. CLAY SHAW, JR., Florida 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 Bailey, Hon. William C., mayor, city of Seymour, Seymour, IN.. MATERIAL RECEIVED FOR THE RECORD Adamkus, Valdas V., Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Letter, dated December 7, 1981, to Ronald G. Blankenbaker, M.D. Health Commissioner, Indiana State Board of Health: concerning the Na- tional Interim Priority List of 115 hazardous waste sites in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Black, J.M., M.D., Jackson County Health Officer; Letter, dated June 22, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. concerning a survey by the Jackson Blankenbaker, Ronald G., M.D., State health commissioner, Indiana State Letter, dated December 28, 1983, to Hon. Elliott H. Levitas, chairman, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, concerning request of Memo, dated August 23, 1982, to Patrick W. Berger, administrative assist- ant, Environmental Management Board, subject: Seymour Recycling...... Letter, dated February 3, 1984, to Hon. Elliott H. Levitas, chairman, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, concerning request upon specific information on Seymour Recycling site on June 15, 1979... Bottorff, John D., executive vice president, Greater Seymour Chamber of Letter, dated June 3, 1982, to Hon. Robert Orr, Governor of Indiana, 256 Letter, dated June 17, 1982, to John B. Bottorff, executive vice president, 258 Chemical Waste Management Technical Center; Special Waste Analysis 270 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: Page 246 147 294 Letter, dated February 6, 1980, to Hon. Chris Moritz, mayor of Seymour, re Seymour Recycling Corp. 244 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 278 Hunt, Jim, Division of Land Pollution Control, Indiana State Board of Health: 158 Summary request for enforcement action Seymour Recycling, Inc., Seymour and summary request for denial of permit renewal Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN. 160 Memo, dated May 17, 1978, to the file, subject: Inspection Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour, IN... 164 Agreed order, file dated June 30, 1978, in the Jackson Circuit Court, 166 Letter, dated September 14, 1978, to Joe Krieger concerning discharge to sanitary sewer, Seymour Recycling Corp., Seymour 173 Memo, dated September 28, 1978, to the file, subject: Inspects September 175 195 Memo, dated May 7, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. files, Seymour, IN, subject: Inspections of April 3 and April 4, 1979.. 199 Memo, dated June 5, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. files, subject: Spill 203 Memo, dated July 2, 1979, to the file, subject: Seymour Recycling- 221 Memo, dated July 5, 1979, to the file, subject: SEC-Seymour 223 Memo, dated July 10, 1979, to Seymour Recycling Corp. files, subject: 224 Memo, dated July 18, 1979, to the file, subject: Employee complaint, 227 Memo, dated July 23, 1979, to the file, subject: Inspection of July 23, 1979. 230 232 Memo, dated August 29, 1979, to the file SRC, subject: Transportation by 242 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. 261 Letter, dated September 1, 1983, to Alisa Yihara, U.S. EPA, Office of 291 Additional testimony. 315 Indiana Environmental Management Board: Indiana Environmental Managment Act, IC 13-7, as Amended, Article 7... 363 413 Industrial Waste Haulers Permit Regulations.... 458 Indiana Solid Waste Disposal Law, dated September 1, 1981, IC 36–9–30, supersedes IC 19-2-1, Refuse Disposal Act......... 463 Indiana State Board of Health: List of field note documents concerning pollution problems at the Sey- Page mour Recycling Corp. site.... 205 Water Sample Identification Sheet, report dated August 23, 1979 234 474 494 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.. 245 Knoy, Jim, Division of Land Pollution Control: Memo, dated December 27, 1982, through Ralph C. Pickard, David D. Memo, dated January 26, 1983, through Karen E. Evans, David D. Lamm, Memo, dated June 6, 1983, through Karen E. Evans, James M. Hunt, and Memo, dated June 15, 1983, through Karen Evans, James Hunt, and 266 267 276 277 Memo, dated August 30, 1983, through Karen E. Evans to Seymour 287 Memo, dated August 31, 1983, through Karen E. Evans to Seymour 289 Memo, dated September 8, 1983, through Karen E. Evans to Seymour 293 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.... 317 Lisella, Frank S., Ph.D., Assistant Director for Programs, Chronic Diseases Memo, dated August 11, 1983, to Georgi Jones, Chief, Superfund Implementation Group, Center for Environmental Health, subject: Seymour, 281 280, 322 IN 252 268 Orr, Robert D., Governor of Indianapolis; letter, dated May 11, 1982, to Hon. 254 Pickard, Ralph C., Technical Secretary, Environmental Management Board: 171 Memo, dated November 16, 1978, to Hon. Theodore L. Sendak, Attorney 182 Letter, dated November 28, 1978, to Craig Sparks, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Memo, dated December 15, 1978, to Hon. Theodore L. Sendak, Attorney 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....... 183 185 249 181 |