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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The govern
ment moved Thursday for the first
time to ban deadly asbestos, a
widely-used substance that officials
say causes up to 12,000 cancer cases
annually in the United States.
Under a two-phased attack, the
Environmental Protection Agency
proposed an immediate ban in five
product categories, mostly in the
construction area. The EPA said it
wants to cleanse the environment
over the next decade of all products
containing the known carcinogen.
The decision, attacked by an in
dustry group as unwarranted, culmi
nated more than six years of regula
tory soul-searching within the
government and months of infight
ing between the EPA and the Office
of Management and Budget.
EPA Administrator Lee M.
Thomas said human health — not
monetary cost — was the EPA’s fore
most concern.
Thomas said it would take about a
year for the agency to complete pub
lic hearings and administrative re
view of the. proposed asbestos rule,
which has been in the works since
late 1979.
The ban, when fully imple
mented, will avert as many as 1,900
deaths from asbestos-related lung
cancer over the next 15 years,
Thomas said.
“We are taking this action because
of the significant and well-docu
mented threat to health that asbestos
represents,” he told a news confer
ence. “No level of exposure is with
out risk.”
Because of a legally binding step-
by-step process for issuing govern
ment rules and regulations, the ban
will not take place instantly.
Agency spokesman Dave Ryan
said the plan to remove asbestos
from five product areas probably
will be formally published next week
in the Federal Register, the compen
dium of government regulatory and
rule-making proposals.
Thomas said effective substitute
materials are available for these
products: clothing used by firemen
and workers in high-temperature
areas; roofing felts; flooring felts;
floor tiles; and cement pipe and fit
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U.S. law limits time
banks may hold
deposited checks
Eight Hormel strikers get arrested
Associated Press
Associated Press
WASHING I ON — The House
passed a bill Thursday to limit the
time banks can hold deposited
checks and thus curtail what a chief
sponsor called an outlandish policy
that allows banks to profit from the
so-called float.
The House measure, passed 282-
11, would force financial institutions
to give customers access to their
money under a set timetable — in
some cases quicker than they do
now.
House Banking Committee Chair
man Fernand ). St Germain, D-R.L,
chief proponent of the check hold
bill, told his colleages banks now play
the float game with customers’
money to earn billions of dollars
through interest and fees on checks
inadvertently bounced by deposi
tors.
“In all too many cases, depositors
don’t have access to the money they
have earned,” St Germain said. “It is
tied up by banking policies — check
hold policies — that say the cus
tomer has to wait days, and days,
and sometimes, weeks and weeks,
before the bank says the money is
available.”
Before approving the bill, the
House passed by voice vote an
amendment that would permit
bankers to hold a check longer than
the timetable if they suspect the
check may not clear because of fraud
or bankruptcy.
St Germain opposed the so-called
good faith clause, saying it was not
needed because more than 99 per
cent of all checks written are paid
the first time through the collection
process and half the 350 million
checks returned unpaid each year go
through the second time.
During the first year after the bill
became Taw, banks would have to
make deposits available in as little
time as the next business day for
cash, wire transfers, checks less than
$100, all government checks, cash
iers checks, certified checks and
checks drawn and deposited on in
state branches of the same bank.
AUSTIN, Minn. — Strikers at
tempting to block entry to the Hor
mel meatpacking plant were
dragged from their cars and ar
rested Thursday, while the two sides
in the dispute met with a fact-finder
at the governor’s urging.
Mower Gounty Sheriff Wayne
Goodnature said eight people were
arrested by police for parking their
cars on Interstate 90, used by local
officials and the National Guard to
bring workers to the strike-torn Geo.
A. Hormel & Go. plant.
Goodnature said about 25 cars
slowed to a crawl near the Hormel
off-ramp, and several stopped and
turned off their engines.
Everybody was asked to leave,
Goodnature said, and when the or
der wasn’t obeyed the occupants
were taken from their vehicles.
Police shattered windows in two of
the cars when occupants locked the
doors, he said, and one person was
treated for minor injuries from bro
ken glass.
Gov. Rudy Perpich stepped into
the dispute between the company
and strikers for the second time in as
many weeks, calling a meeting with a
neutral fact-finder.
State officials hoped the talks
would break the S'A-month strike
"‘Our people haven’t com
mitted any violence. ...”
Jim Guyette, president of
Local P-9 of the United
Food and Commercial
Workers.
which has led to scattered violence
since Monday.
“Our people haven’t committed
any violence and all of a sudden it’s
being heaped upon them. It’s a tra
gedy, and I think it’s a mistake,” said
Jim Guyette, president of Local P-9
of the United Food and Commercial
Workers.
Jeff McAnally, a union member
who was among those arrested
said,“I think they’re treating us
more like we have killed 20 people
than just having a little demonstra
tion.”
Goodnature said two National
Guard armored personnel carriers
were on the scene to handle a block
ade in the event that large trucks
were used by the union, but the
Guardsmen were not needed.
A1 Zack, a Boston attorney acting
as fact-finder in the contract dispute,
said he and Paul Goldberg, director
of the state Bureau of Mediation
Services, had met with each side sep
arately.
Leaders of both sides were tight-
lipped, shuttling in and out of the
meeting room.
Some 1,500 union meatpackers
walked off the job Aug. 17 after
Hormel cut wages by 23 percent and
dropped the base wage from $10.69
to $8.25 an hour. The company said
the move was needed to remain
competitive.
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Sources say VA chief planning to resign
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Veterans Ad
ministration head Harry N. Walters
is planning to resign, government
sources said Thursday.
Walters’ resignation is expected
imminently, said sources in govern
ment and dose to the VA who spoke
only on condition they not be identi
fied.
Among the leading candidates to
replace Walters in the post, accord
ing to the sources, is Selective Serv
ice director Thomas K. Turnage.
A phone call to Turnage was
transferred to his chief of staff, Col.
Jim DeWire, who said, “I can’t make
a comment.”
Walters, contacted by telephone,
declined to comment on when he
would resign but acknowledged he
was eager to leave the post.
Sources said Walters hopes to
leave the job Jan. 31, and that a
White House announcement of the
move was being delayed until a suc
cessor is chosen.
Walters, 49, a former West Point
football star, became VA administra
tor on Nov. 22, 1982.
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