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producers pay a $6O-million
tax as part of the Ad
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Fertilizer blenders balk at superfund tax
ministration’s “superfund”
legislation is as logical as
including the ‘Tinker Toy or
widget industries”, ac-
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cording to a fertilizer in
dustry spokesman here
Wednesday before the House
Subcommittee on Tran
sportation and Commerce.
Ed Wheeler, president,
The Fertilizer Institute, said
that Environmental
Protection Agency proposals
to tax the entire chemical
industry unjustly penalize
the fertilizer segment.
“No abandoned waste
sites have been found to
contain fertilizer products or
waste,” he said, yet the
annual “superfund” tax on
fertilizer plants would be at
least $6O million, and could
reach $lOO million per year,
one-fourth the total $4OO
- chemical industry
contribution.
EPA proposals would set a
tax or fee on chemical
producers for use in paying
either the cost of cleaning-up
inactive disposal sites, or of
accidental hazardous
chemical spills.
In addition to the inequity
of taxation of fertilizer
production, such assessment
Engineered lor Convenience And Dependability
would reflect in higher food
costs for U.S. consumers, he
said, as well as many of the
world’s “poorest of the
poor” who rely on American
agricultural exports.
Wheeler posed a myriad of
questions to the sub
committee, noting, for in
stance, that EPA has
produced little factual
evidence on number and
content of abandoned
chemical sites.
First, he pointed out,
“EPA rushed to the media”,
and state there could be up to
50,000 such “orphan” sites.
Ater the Institute requested
a list of such sites, under the
Freedom of Information Act,
EPA identified only 151.
“Not a single site con
tamed any products or
wastes produced by the
fertilizer industry,” Wheeler
said.
“Never was so much
proposed to be extracted
from so many to be blithely
thrown at an evasive target
by so few”, Wheeler said, m
Little Dav
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referring to the proposed
$4OO million fund.
“We believe there is a
problem...but we have no
more idea as to its extent
than do the members of this
subcommittee, let alone the
EPA,” he added and urged
them to conduct a thorough
analysis of the root problem
as the first order of business,
then to determine probable
costs, as well as how states
might participate.
Conservation group
elects new officers
HARRISBURG-Robert
Jones of Bath, Northampton
County, was elected
president of the Penn
sylvania Association of
Conservation District
Directors. The elections were
held at the Jomt Annual
Conference of the State
Conservation Commission
and the Pennsylvania
Association of Conservation
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“We believe both state and
federal funds should be used
to remove offending
chemicals from waste
sites,” rather than penalize
persons or corporations for
situations which they did not
create, he said.
In essence, he em
phasized, the innocent are
being punished for the faults
of others with few facts to
support such action.
Districts, held in Green
sburg on October 1-3.
Jones served as the
group’s vice president last
year. He follows William
Lange, Clarks Summit, as
president.
George Wolfe, Lebanon
County, is the new first vice
president. Alex Smith,
Greensburg, Westmoreland
County, completed his term
as secretary and was elected
second vice president.
New Association secretary
is Richard Morgan, Nor
thumberland County. He
follows Roby Grose,
Punxsutawney, Indiana
County, in that position.
Wendell Pepson, Union
town, Fayette County, once
again will serve as
treasurer.
Amos Funk, Millersville,
Lancaster County, was re
elected as Pennsylvania’s
council representative to the
National Association of
Conservation Districts.
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