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By The Associated Press
The federal government is demanding that they be
reimbursed by 146 companies and agencies for the
cost of removing thousands of drums of hazardous
waste dumped in a field near Columbia.
The Environmental Protection Agency mailed letters
to agencies and businesses in 22 states and in Ca
nada demanding to be reimbursed $2.3 million plus
interest, incurred by the agency to remove the drums
of chemicals from a field off of Bluff Road.
They have until Oct. 16 to agree to negotiate or
face a jawsuit, according to the EPA.
In South Carolina, 33 firms, four colleges and universities,.
a county hospital and the Charleston Air
Force Base are listed as having shipped toxic waste to
the Bluff Road site between 1973 and 1982.
According to a letter mailed late last month, the
EPA is "holding the operators of the site, anyone who
paid to have waste disposed there and truckers who
shipped it liable for the cost of cleanup and testing the
Clemson susp*
By BILL SWAIN leged vi
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CLEMSON ? The Clemson University Suspe
chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity Oct. 3 a
has been suspended for two years in con- *n [he ^
nection with an offense of serving alcohol J?y S
to minors at a fraternity party Sept. 29. ment, ss
hearing
Fraternity President Jay Abraham said declined
the sanctions were not brought about by the
criminal sexual conduct charges against a A bra
pledge in the fraternity, which allegedly coopera
occurred sept. zv. climng
'The alleged sexual misconduct did not commei
occur at the party," Abraham said. He a
been nc
The pledge has since been suspended group b
from die fraternity, Abraham said. with the
The fraternity has been on probation with
the university for violations from 1988 and The ]
1989. the fall
Pi Kappa Alpha has been charged with sure if
"student organization misconduct" and "al- the susi
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volunteers who will be at various terms 0f running
locations around campus to collect ter: administrate
cans, and the F.re Department will ca, ? Tumei
have a wagon behind Longstreet
Theatre to collect cans. "Administrativ
"Housing Services (also) has an to make sure lion-going
program with the custo- physical manager
dians to collect aluminum cans," management and
Newman said. "We're hoping to inventory supp
get an outside bin for cans in each standards which
area " ate training and
The office is negotiating with a
local buyer to put bins for recycling
newspapers on campus, Newman
said.
Operational Services is piloting
a project to recycle white office
paper for the Byrnes International
Center. Newman said. Thev have
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bins located in Hamilton and Os-? 1
borne halls, he said.
"We're looking into a contract
service with a local firm for white VV?
office paper and computer paper,"
Newman said.
He said that the locations of
bins for this service have not yet IA._.
been approved by the Dean 's I '^Avcc
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The Bluff Road dump was put on the EPA's list of
the most severe hazardous waste sites in 1981 after
chemical clouds and explosions brought it to the
public's attention.
In 1987, the EPA had requested that companies and
agencies voluntarily pay for cleanup. Now the agency
is demanding that they do so.
"They've sent notices to everybody they have information
on that may be a responsible party," said
Greenville attorney Eric Schweitzer, who represents
Gorce Laboratories in Greer. However, "the fact that a
company is on the list is not proof."
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client did not pay to have hazardous waste shipped to
the Bluff Road site. "But it is hard to get off the EPA
list once you are on it."
In South Carolina, the list also includes the Medical
University of South Carolina, the University of South
Carolina, Furman University in Greenville, Presbytejnds
fraternity:
olation of any federal, state, or local _ 7~
aid university officials. JprcttCITllt
insion was recommended beginning
nd ending on the first day of classes By BILL SWAI1
ill of 1992. The Tiger
Imith, director of Student Develop- CLEM SON lid
the fraternity had the option of a police have arresi
to decide the punishment but has son stucjenl an(j
' degree criminal s
Robert H. Dr
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ting with the university and is de- charged with assj
the hearing and accepting the re- student on the \
lded sanctions against it. Guard Armory ?
lso said the national chapter has midnight on Sept
)tified and is in full support of the He has been r
ecause of the extensive cooperation sonal recognizan
' university. court date has be<
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group may apply to be reinstated in tional Guard Am
of 1992. Abraham said he was un- social fraternity :
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Most of the South Carolina companies are small.
The largest firms on the list appear to be Milliken &
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MUSC referred its letter to the South Carolina Attorney
General's Office, the school's general counsel
Joe Good said. MUSC shipped four-to-eight 55-gallon
barrels of medical waste to the Bluff Road site in the
early 1980s, he said.
"The amount of waste from MUSC is nominal compared
to what the EPA removed from the site," Good
said. "We were surprised to get this (letter) after all
this time."
A USC spokesman said it was not immediately
known whether the university had received the letter.
In 1977, a Furman University chemistry professor
shipped a barrel of miscellaneous chemicals to the
Bluff Road dump, said Bob Miller, the school's director
of public safety.
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situation but said he was ro
? Clemson University had e.ver been associa
ted an 18-year-old Clem- fraternity,
charged him with first- Kappa Alpha Presidei
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lulting a female Clemson did add, however, that the
grounds of the National *er has been notified,
on Highway 76 around Office of Student Deve
29. tor Joy Smith said, "If it i
eleased on a $5,000 per- function then we would :
ce bond and a tentative die actions of the frate;
m set for Nov. 5. violate any university regu]
a source from the Na- ac52!? ^ ^icltory,
the Pi Kappa Alpha There may have been
signed a contract renting ulations violated that invol
social function. cohol to minors," she adde<
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ray ... are meeting certain quality come to grips \
standards," Turner said. problem peacefu
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"Our part in the volume is small. We've responded
and asked them to tell us what our responsibilities
are," he said.
The telephone was not answered Sunday in the
EPA's regional office in Atlanta.
The agency said it plans to spend more money on
the site, and agencies and businesses that produced the
waste could be liable for those expenses.
Columbia Organic Chemical Co. and S.C. Recycling
and Disposal Inc. used the Bluff Road site from
1973-1982 to store solid and hazardous waste.
In 1982 and 1983, during an initial cleanup, approximately
7200 drums of toxic and flammable waste
were removed. The EPA has detected cancer-causing
chemicals in the groundwater near the site.
Residents in lower Richland County want the EPA
to test private wells for chemical contamination. The
EPA has refused, alleging no signs of widespread
contamination.
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charge one else.
O Members said they have en>mment
on the countered several incidents of vioot
currently nor *ence resentment on campus
to a u,ith thP from other students. These range
from the destruction of flyers to
T ., , members being assaulted in the reit
Jay Abraham ; sidence halls. 8
one or their | "Our flyers are all torn down
imment further within an hour after distribution on
vestigation. He campus," one member said,
national chap- Another obstacle the group is
trying to overcome is the AIDS
lopment Direc- myth and other myths associated
vas a fraternity with homosexuality. They have orsee
whether or ganized a speakers bureau to talk
mity seemed to to groups about such issues,
lations and take "Heterosexuals are using us as a
scapegoat for the AIDS epidemic
university reg- while they are in the denial phase,"
ved serving al- one member said. "It is time to
j wake up and realize that we need
to work together to overcome
? this."
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wait, Kattenburg Kattenburg suggested U.N. Security
Council member nations
we have to ad- commonly keep nuclear weapons
we reorganize in the background,
and worldwide to However, Kattenburg added,
vith this kind of now that the U. S. military is in
Ily, with force in the Middle East, a war would be
"a bloody event."
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