HARRISBURG The chairman
of the House Conservation Com
mittee said Wednesday that he
believes recent major enforcement
actions by the Department of
Environmental Resources would
not have occurred If his committee
had not been investigating the
department.
State Rep. Camille “Bud”
George, (D-Clearfield) noted that
DER bad issued a closure order to
the Strasburg landfill in Chester
County and has pressed for a reply
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Rep. George prides committee
to an unanswered DER letter to the
Chrin landfill In Northampton
County.
George pointed out that a
citizens’ group in Chester County,
had attempted in vain to have DER
enforce environmental laws at the
Strasburg landfill, but that shortly
after the group met with him and
members of his committee in
Harrisburg, the department
moved in and ordered the landfill
closed.
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say that they were preparing to
close the Chester County landfill
before our committee began its
probe.” George said, “but it’s just
too much of a coincidence that a
citizens' group bad been pressing for
such action for several years
without success until they told
DER they had asked for the
Conservation Committee’s
assistance.”
ThyClearfield County democrat
also said that testimony by a DER.
official at hearings in Easton
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with DER action
revealed that the department bad
not had a reply to a 1981 letter
requesting the owners of the Chrin
landfill to document which of 85
loads of industrial waste had not
been accepted at the site.
“1 wrote to Secretary Nick
Qeßenedictis three times in the
last month asking whether or not
the department was going to insist
on a reply to the letter,” George
said, “and finally, I received an
answer from DER telling me that
they have informed the owners of
the Chrin landfill that no decision
would be made on the landfill’s
pending application for expansion
until they provided the information
requested in the 1981 letter.
‘‘They also told me they
requested Chrin’s consultant' to
provide a closure plan adequate to
deal with those industrial wastes
against the possibility that all or
part of them were actually
deposited in the landfill,” he
continued.
George said he is certain the
Chrin action would never have
taken place had the committee not
brought out what be said was
DER’s “total mismanagement of
Uncastf Farming, Saturday. July 2,1983-AI7
the Chrin case.’'
“They had written a very serious
letter to Chrin, listing 85
tankerloads of industrial waste
documented by manifests from the
states of Massachusetts and New
Jersey,” he said, “and they were
content to let the landfill operate
without even a slap on the wrist
even though more than a year and
a half had passed without even the
hint of a reply.”
At the same time, George
pointed out that DER was well
aware that an investigation by the
state attorney general into the
alleged dumping revealed that a
receiving attendant at the landfill
had admitted signing the
manifests.
“I am extremely pleased that
OER has adopted an enforcement
mode,” he said, “but I am very
much concerned about two items
bow many more Chrins and
Stras burgs are there throughout
the state that are being ignored by
the department; and will the
department continue to enforce the
environmental laws as vigorously
once the committee has concluded
its investigation?”
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