[CPEO-BIF] TCE relases permitted in Georgia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This article raises two questions: First, what level of TCE in air do
Georgia regulators consider safe? Second, why is Nakanishi Motors still
using such large quantities of TCE? My impression is that most
industrial users of TCE in the U.S. have phased it out. At least, that's
the case here in Silicon Valley. - LS]

Plant emissions are safe, state officials say

By Lee Shearer
Athens Banner-Herald (GA)
June 28, 2005

Pollution coming from the Nakanishi Motor Corporation's plant near
Winterville does not pose a health threat to its neighbors, and there is
no reason to deny the company's application to renew its pollution
permit, state officials said at a public meeting Monday night.

The 1225 Voyles Road plant vents more than 100,000 pounds of year of a
solvent called trichloroethylene, or TCE, less than one-third of a mile
from W.R. Coile Middle School. But it is so diluted by the time it
reaches the school or a nearby church that the health risk is far below
any federal standards, said Randy Manning, coordinator of the state
Environmental Protection Division's Environmental Toxicology program.

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For the entire article, see
http://onlineathens.com/stories/062805/new_20050628039.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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