/ *vc// mw RESTAURANT 801 Wellborn Hwy College Station 696-4118 TRY OUR LUNCH SPECIAL! $3.95 prices from $1.95 i Page SH'he Battalion/Wednesday, October 24, 1984 ERA scraps regulating radiation Warped mill ii him (NIGHTMARES Admission at the doo $1.25 sponsered by TAMU Sociology Club WED OCT 24 7:30 PM HELDENFELS 200 United Press International WASHINGTON — Citing what was termed a “trivial” increased risk of cancer, the Environmental Pro tection Agency Tuesday threw out plans to regulate airborne radiation emitted from facilities such as nu clear weapons plants. On the last day it could act under a federal court order, the agency Uiiiiimiiiiimniiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu -Vi withdrew proposed regulations for radio-nuclide emissions from phos phorous plants, Department of En ergy facilities, Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed facilities, other federal facilities and underground uranium mines. The decision, EPA officials said, was based on a determination that there currently was an “ample mar gin of safety” to protect the public near the facilities from cancer. “In our judgment, the risk is a rel atively trivial risk,” said EPA Assis tant Administrator Joseph Cannon. The Sierra Club disagreed, how ever, and said it would appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Ap peals. A spokeswoman said the envi ronmental group would also file suit in U.S. District Court seeking to find EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus in contempt of the orig inal court order. That order, issued in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, gave the EPA until Tuesday to make final its plans to regulate the radio-nuclide emissions under the Clean Air Act. 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However, Brooks Yeager, the Washington representative of the Sierra Club, argued the court order meant that either the final regula tions be issued, or that the low-level radiation be found not to be hazard- United Press International Cannon said the EPA was not issu ing a final determination on whether the emissions were harmful, noting “we’re not closing the book.” “I honestly don’t think this rep resents a retreat,” Cannon said “I don’t think this is a backing away from a health-risk standard.” AUSTWELL — The first of the last wild flock of whooping cranes is expected to arrive this week on the South Texas coast where officials are trying to determine if the rare birds’ winter habitat is threatened by oil and grease deposits. “They should be showing up any day,” said Kenneth Schwindt, assis tant manager of the Aransas Wild life Refuge. The refuge attracts thousands of people each winter seeking a glimpse of the 5-foot tall birds. Schwindt said three whoopers were spotted flying over an Okla homa refuge on Oct. 1 and one was spotted at a Kansas ref uge on Oct. 3. But rainy weather the last part of last week and first part of this week has kept Aransas officials from flying to the 54,828-acre refuge to look for the early arrivals. Meanwhile, Schwindt said labo ratory tests were underway in Pasa dena, to determine whether oil and grease sediment discovered in the Intercoastal Waterway has gotten into the whoopers’ habitat or into their favorite food — shrimp and crabs. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife De partment took samples from throughout the habitat last month after the U.S. Corps of Engineers discovered oil and grease residue during a dredging operation of the waterway which cuts through the refuge. Frank Johnson, manager of the refuge, said he was optimistic the contamination was confined to the deeper water of the channel, noting that the cranes stay mostly ini under 18 inches deep. Uist spring 73 cranes left Ah on their annual 2,600-mile: tion to Canada's Wood Buflai: tional Park, and Aransas ofk they have reports that 1S| cranes were hatched. But because some of ike might have been lost top Aransas officials say they know the size of the flock the birds have arrived forthev part of the ■A note dissed to i|i Monte the UCS. ■Montes r etar v to said the ei am seen mi the killing. ■The f'< union in f by the AI tie of f re ■The Em eminent o ■arte to pite the Hyernme vide assist; ■No gro ■v for tit ■Right-n ilponsibl ftths in UK tit troo Officials estimate that nod than 140 whooping cranes it worldwide since their iw ? rounds in Iowa, Minnesotan )akotas were turned intoii Their wintering areas of theSi west also were displaced byap lure and industry. ALL RECOGNIZED STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS (Who have turned in their 1985 Aggieland Contracts) Remember to schedule with Yearbook Associates by Friday, October 26th Do it early and get a good date. 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