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state / national Battalion/Page 7 February 22, 1983 EPA memo purged by aide The man phone saidli woman. ; an, idenfifl lae Collin ve Fid on, Cathni rests Dallas aparc arrested Hi m and H on Jr. i the Dallas charges ample uasli and laterrd ; question redit card rgery and posting Si United Press International WASHINGTON — One of the Environmental Protection Agency memorandums central to Congress’ investigation of toxic waste enforcement was re moved from the agency’s com puter by a former agency offi cial. Eugene Ingold, a former aide to fired top EPA official Rita Lavelle, said Sunday he deleted the memorandum in the same way EPA computers are routine ly purged. Three House subcommittee chairmen said they were con cerned information being sought by Congress may have been destroyed. The memo was cited by EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford as one reason she had Lavelle fired by President Reagan two weeks ago. Ms. Bur- ford married Robert Burford, director of the Federal Bureau of Land Management, Sunday. Despite the agreement giving one House subcommittee access to EPA toxic waste enforcement files, another panel’s chairman said he does not regard the pact as binding on his subcommittee. “I have more questions raised than answered,” Rep. James J. Florio, D-NJ., said Sunday. “I intend to go forward to try to determine what would motivate EPA to go into settlement agree ments with companies that couldn’t have been motivated by anything other than the desire to get the companies off the hook.” The purged memo accuses EPA general counsel Robert Perry of “systematically alienat ing the primary constituents of this administration, the business community,” supporting charges the EPA was too close to the polluters it is charged with regulating under the $1.6 billion “Superfund” toxic waste cleanup program. Hugh Kaufman, an agency investigator known as a “whistle blower” for his outspoken critic ism, said in a telephone inter view he warned congressional investigators the memo would be purged and it “disappeared” after Lavelle was fired. Florio said he is “starting to get the impression that some thing really very seriously in appropriate is going on with EPA. 1 think Congress has to make the commitment to get to the bottom of it.” Ingold, who was fired when Ms. Lavelle was, said what he eli minated amounted to “about a page and a quarter of notes to be used by Miss Lavelle for a meet ing on management problems.” “The meeting never came off, so I never wrote any talking notes. 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