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The Battalion Thursday, February 14,1991
Senate passes bill to cut
oil clean-up response time
AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate
passed a bill Wednesday to protect
Texas bays and estuaries by desig
nating a single state agency, drawing
from a fund of up to $50 million, to
respond immediately to clean up oil
spills.
Bill sponsor Carl Parker said the
measure, which was sent to the
House on a 29-0 vote, would cut re
sponse time for cleaning up spills
from days to hours. ,
“The bays and estuaries of the
Gulf Coast represent some of our
more precious assets in this state,”
Sen. Parker, D-Port Arthur, said.
“They are the lifeline of the food
chain for all of our shellfish, fish ...
and all of the aquatic life and animal
life on the Gulf Coast.”
Parker cited such major oil spills
as the Burmah Agate, which in 1979
dumped 10.7 million gallons off the
Texas coast, and last summer when
the tanker Mega Borg and an oil
barge spilled a combined total of 4.4
million gallons of oil near Galveston.
“The largest problem we have in
countering and responding to these
spills is nobody has been in charge,
no one has had access to adequate
funding,” Parker said.
The bill would make the General
Land Office the state’s lead agency
for responding to oil spills or other
pollutants in coastal waters.
It establishes a coastal protection
fund of up to $50 million by placing
a fee on crude oil transported by ves
sel. The fee, either 2 cents or 4 cents
a barrel, would depend on how
much money was needed for the
fund.
The fund would pay for state
cleanup costs, compensate people
damaged by spills and pay for re
search.
The legislation also requires own
ers of oil terminal facilities and ves
sels with a capacity of 10,000 or
more gallons of oil to maintain ad
equate insurance and develop spill
prevention and response plans.
Criminal and civil penalties are
provided for violations.
“Most importantly, it will be a
great way to get out there and get
this stuff cleaned up immediately,”
Parker said. “That’s where the harm
has been caused, by taking so long to
get it cleaned up until it gets in the
grasslands or to the beaches and the
impact doubles.”
Under the legislation, the Texas
Water Commission would still have
responsibility for hazardous spills
except for oil, Parker said.
Among several amendments were
changes to maintain the Railroad
Commission’s role in regulating off
shore wells and pipelines.
Officials call
for tax hike
to meet needs
of hospitals
HOUSTON (AP) — Harris
County Hospital District officials
said they need a 31 percent in
crease in their portion of county
property taxes to meet rising
emergency trauma cases ana
medical costs.
Lois Moore, the hospital dis
trict’s president, told Harris
County commissioners Tuesday
that the district could come up
$50 million short without the ad
ditional revenue.
To fund the hospital district,
county residents now are assessed
16 cents per $100 valuation,
Moore said that should be in
creased 5 cents to 21 cents per
$ 100 valuation.
The tax hike would help the
crowded emergency room situa
tion by allowing the district to re
open Quentin Mease Hospital,
she said.
The hospital has been closed
since January 1990 for asbestos
removal. It was unable to reopen
as scheduled last summer in part
because of the budget shortfall.
Sexual business ban
City forces move of adult stores
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HOUSTON (AP) — The City Council unanimously
approved on Wednesday an ordinance that prohibits
adult book and video stores and X-rated movie theaters
from operating within 750 feet of schools, churches and
day care centers.
“This is really a major step forward for every citizen
in Houston,” said councilwoman Christin Hartung,
who has worked on getting the measure approved for
D/a years. “It’s the toughest battle I’ve had in my 12
years on the council.”
The ordinance also outlaws such businesses from op
erating within 1,000 feet of other sexually oriented
businesses in an effort to get rid of what Hartung called
“combat zones,” or groups of adult-oriented businesses.
In addition, such businesses would be prohibited
from operating in predominantly residential neighbor
hoods.
Only 17 of the 54 businesses affected appear to be in
compliance with the new ordinance, city attorney Clar
ence West said.
The businesses have three months to register for city
permits and six months to continue operating to recoup
their investrnent. West said. A business out of compli
ance then must move or cease operations unless it re
ceives an exemption from the city.
Some Houstonians blasted the council’s action
Wednesday, saying it violated the First Amendment.
“This is a censorship ordinance,” said Ray Hill, a free
speech and gay rights activist. Hill predicted the
amendment would be reversed if it is challenged in
court.
Hartung said she expected lawyers for the businesses
to challenge the law, but she added she is confident the
measure can withstand a legal battle since it regulates
location, not content.
“We feel we have taken our time, done the research,
dotted every T and crossed every ‘T’,” she said. “We
feel relatively comfortable about any court challenge."
“We’re only regulating land use controls to ensure
that these types of establishments are not close to
churches, schools or day care centers,” Hartung said.
The measure approved Wednesday adds adult book
and video stores and X-rated movie theaters to the city’s
sexually oriented business code, which already regu
lates topless dubs and modeling shows.
Vietnamese teens face racism, struggle
with cultural differences, expectations
HOUSTON (AP) — Willie
Nguyen didn’t know Hung Truong,
the Vietnamese youth who was
beaten and stomped by suspected
skinheads last summer and later
died of his injuries. But his death
had a big impact on Nguyen and
many other Vietnamese teen-agers
in Houston.
Until then, Nguyen, the youngest
of nine children, had felt at home in
the United States. His assimilation
had been free from the frustrations
and fears faced by his older brothers
and sisters and their parents when
they arrived in 1975. The same is
true for his friends Karen Doan and
Ha Le, also the youngest in large
families, and his classmates at Sharp-
stown High School.
Nguyen and his peers look at
themselves as a new generation,
born Vietnamese but raised Ameri
can — comfortable with a range of
experiences as varied as apple pie
and spring rolls. It makes, they ad
mit, for an interesting approach to
life.
But this was the first time
Nguyen, 17, a happy-go-lucky sort
who is fond of telling jokes, had
thought much about racism.
“1 know it’s out there, and I’m
aware of problems,” Nguyen says.
“But I guess it became much more
apparent to me last summer.”
Since then, Nguyen and his
friends have talked about the Tru
ong slaying among themselves and
with family members. They have
read the accounts that suggest Tru
ong might have survived if he had
gone to a hospital earlier and if he
had called his father instead of hid
ing his problems — a traditional
Asian reaction.
Nguyen, Doan and Le acknowl
edge that “saving face” is important
in their culture. In Vietnam, the per
fect image was everything. But they
say that their own reaction to Tru
ong’s death reflects how American
they have become.
“I was mad about it at first,”
Nguyen says. “It seemed no matter
what I wanted to do, it wouldn’t
help. A lot of times in the Vietnam
ese community, it seems they want
you to keep quiet, and it will go away.
Like it’s rude to make a scene or
stand up for your rights. Butallthai
will change with the next generation
— with us.”
The three Vietnamese teen-agers
believe that in many ways they have
had the best of both worlds — Amer
ican freedom and the closeness
shared by most Vietnamese families
Of those who came in the first wave
of refugees after the fall of Saigon in
1975, they feel most at home. Bythe
time they were old enough to re
member, their families had recov
ered from the initial traumas of their
move.
Only Doan, 16, who left in 1979,
remembers Vietnam. Le and
Nguyen left as babes in their moth
ers’ arms. To them it is an exotic idea
— a place they might like to visit one
day, but never home.
They have not forgotten their
families’ early struggles. Older
brothers and sisters remind them of
the sacrifices their parents made for
them. But often they feel trapped in
a world of stereotypes: caught be
tween the image of the perfect Asian
who gets all A’s and the disaffected
Asian who turns to gangs to find an
identity.
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