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By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
People dissatisfied with Texas
A&M’s summer shuttle bus serv
ice now will be granted a full re
fund, Doug Williams, manager of
bus operations, said Monday.
The fee option, which cost $46,
marked the first time the service
has been available during the
summer sessions.
Williams said that because it
was the first time the service has
been offered in the summer, peo
ple might have been unhappy
with it because they didn’t know
what to expect.
He said people might have
been thinking the shuttle bus
routes were the same ones of
fered in Spring 1989, and are
now upset with the revised sum
mer schedule because the routes
might be conflicting with their
class schedules.
The five summer routes run
five days a week every 30 minutes
from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. and are the
same that served as combined
night routes in Spring 1989:
• Anderson, Marion Pugh and
Parkway.
• Villa Maria and Pinfeather.
• Lincoln and 29th Street.
• Scarlett O’Hara, Munson
and Dartmouth.
• FM 2818 and Welsh.
Williams said that although the
date for receiving full refunds for
classes or fee options has passed,
Bus Operations will be giving full
refunds to people who purchased
the fee option, but are now un
happy with it, in order to be fair
and avoid any animosity.
Williams said the most impor
tant thing to remember is the
atesiflshuttle bus is a service, and he
doesn’t want to turn people away
from the service in the fall.
People who have purchased
the service and want their money
back or who have received a par
tial refund and want the rest of
their money back have until June
13 to get a full refund.
People wanting full refunds
should contact the Bus Opera
tions office at 845-1971.
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Proposal would clean up Texas air by 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Petrochemical
plants and refineries face expensive pollution
controls under President Bush’s proposal
Monday to curb cancer-causing emissions,
while markets for Texas’ natural gas industry
would expand under the clean air initiative.
The president’s plan also would bring most
Texas cities within federal air quality stan
dards by 1995, but would give Houston, con
sidered one of the nation’s most severe cases
of ozone pollution, until the year 2010 to
come into compliance.
Daniel Weiss of the Sierra Club said that
while Bush’s proposals signal his commitment
to “protecting public health from air pollut
ion,” Houston residents would be breathing
dirty air for two more decades.
“That’s too long a time to have high levels
of this health-threatening pollutant,” said
Weiss, Washington director of the Sierra
Club’s pollution program.
Other Texas cities and metropolitan areas
on the Environmental Protection Agency’s list
for non-attainment of ozone-standards are
Beaumont-Port Arthur, El Paso and Dallas-
Fort Worth. The Houston area also includes
Galveston and Brazoria.
El Paso and Houston-Gavlveston-Brazoria
also are on the EPA non-attainment list for
carbon monoxide pollution.
Most cities would meet carbon monoxide
standards by 1995 through an effort that in
cludes the use of clean-burning oxygenated
fuels. The most severe cases, however, would
have until the year 2000 under the presi
dent’s plan.
Weiss praised the president’s call for indus
try to install the best-available technology to
control toxic air emissions, considered a sig
nificant problem in Texas because of its many
petrochemical plants and oil refineries.
According to preliminary data from the
EPA, released by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-
Calif., Texas leads the country in the amount
of toxic chemicals released into the air and
also has several plants with emissions that
pose a severe cancer threat.
EPA estimates the cost of installing best-
available technology for reducing toxic emis
sions at $2 billion, Weiss said, and Texas pe
trochemical companies and refiners probably
would pay a large part of the cost.
The plan anticipates “near-term reduc
tions in airborne toxic chemicals, including
many that are cancer causing, of between 75
percent and 90 percent.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt about it —
compliance with these standards will be very
expensive and benefits from compliance will
be substantial as well,” Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas, said.
Randy Erben, deputy director of the Texas
Office of State-Federal Relations, said it is im
possible now to judge the costs of the propo
sal.
“Until you see the final ink dry on the bill
and EPA regulations promulgated under the
bill, you’re not going to have a hard idea
about what the final costs are going to be.
This is the opening salvo by the administra
tion in this debate,” Erben said.
Gramm said he wants to help write the leg
islation to maintain refiners’ and manufactur
ers’ “flexibility in coming up with new and ef
ficient ways to lower emissions.”
“I believe that if we can implement this new
proposal of the president’s correctly that we
can continue the growth in the petrochemical
industry and protect the environment,”
Gramm said.
At the same time, Gramm said he sees “real
potential for long-term sustained growth in
the demand for natural gas. And since we are
the nation’s largest producer of it, that is a
benefit for us in the nation’s effort to improve
the environment.”
As coal-burning power plants seek a 10-
million-ton reduction in sulfur dioxide emis
sions, a chief cause of acid rain, Weiss and
Gramm said utilities would be considering a
procedure in which a mix of coal and natural
gas is burned. Natural gas is the cheapest and
cleanest-burning fossil fuel, Gramm said.
The American Petroleum Institute said in
a statement that it was disappointed by the
administration’s “apparent preference for
mandating alternate-fuel vehicles.”
API, the largest trade association rep
resenting all segments of the oil industry,
called the alternate-fuel vehicles “an ex
tremely costly and inflexible step which
would provide highly uncertain environmen
tal benefits and presumably require price and
allocation controls or higher prices for all fu
els.”
Bullock: Texas lost funds because of census miscount
AUSTIN (AP) — State Comptrol
ler Bob Bullock said Monday the
federal Census Bureau has under
counted the Texas population by as
many as 547,000 people, and that
has cheated the state out of millions
in federal dollars.
“Texas has been undercounted in
the census and shortchanged at the
treasury,” Bullock said. “The Census
Bureau knows it. They admit it. But
they have refused to do anything
about it.”
The Census Bureau has estimated
that as many as 547,000 Texans —or
about 3.7 percent of the state’s
14.229 million people — were not
counted in the 1980 census.
Bullock said most of those not
counted are poor people, and there
fore the state has lost millions of dol
lars in federal programs that use
population and income figures in
their allocation formulas.
Texas lost $29.3 million in nine of
77 federal programs in 1987, said
Bullock, who is running in the Dem
ocratic Party primary for lieutenant
governor.
About two-thirds of that amount
would have gone toward Medicaid,
which provides health care services
to low-income Texans, and an esti
mated $3.8 million would have been
used for Aid to Families with Depen
dent Children, he said.
“And that means thousands of
Texans, most of them poor, elderly,
or minority, are not getting services
to which they are entitled,” Bullock
said.
Bullock has asked U.S. Commerce
Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher Sr.
to reverse a department decision to
“X
I housands of Texans,
most of them poor, elderly,
or minority, are not getting
services to which they are
entitled.”
— Bob Bullock,
state comptroller
not adjust the 1990 census for the in
accurate count, and he has urged
Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox
to join in a lawsuit filed against Com
merce that would require an adjust
ment.
“If this problem is not corrected
in the 1990 census, Texas stands to
lose hundreds of millions of dollars
in federal funds in the next decade,”
Bullock said.
He has urged the Texas congres
sional delegation to support legis
lation co-sponsored by U.S. Rep.
Ron Coleman, D-Texas, and U.S.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, to re
quire an under-count adjustment.
Of the estimated 547,000 Texans
not counted, 253,000 are believed to
be Hispanics and 143,000 blacks,
and most are poor, according to the
census report. This under-counting
of poor minority Texans artificially
inflates the state’s per capita income,
which is part of the allocation for
mula for many federal programs, he
said.
The Census Bureau’s estimates of
the people not counted are based on
past experience, according to Jim
Gorman, a bureau spokesman.
States with a large illegal alien
population often will be miscounted,
he said. Although the census does
not question whether a person is le
gally in the country, he said, illegal
aliens shy away from the census
questionnaire.
Officials continue search for clues
surrounding Army sergeant’s death
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
Circumstances surrounding the shooting death of
James Craig, an Army sergeant on active duty in Texas
A&M’s ROTC department, remain unknown as Army
investigators continue their investigation into the inci
dent.
Craig’s body was found June 6 in a van at Fort Riley,
Kan., where he had been assigned to assist members of
the A&M Corps of Cadets during Summer Training
Camp.
Craig had been working in the A&M ROTC depart
ment since 1986. He instructed freshman-level ROTC
courses and worked as the supply sergeant for all
Army-ROTC cadets here. He also was involved with the
Ranger Challenger Team, Rudder’s Rangers and the
Ross Volunteers.
The Army released a statement last week saying it
could not comment on Craig’s death until its investiga
tion was completed. The Army gave no estimate on how
long it would take to finish the investigaton.
Craig’s military awards include the Puxple Heart, the
Bronze Star Medal, a Combat Infantryman Badge, an
Army Commendation Medal and various service deco
rations. He was an active member of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post No. 4692 in Bryan.
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