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News From Congressman Norman Lent- Threat Of F.A.A. Relocation From N.Y. Has Been Removed: D'Amato We Need Better Enforcement Of Hazardous Waste Control Earlier this month, I had the unhappy duty of releas- ing a General Accounting Office (GAO) report on how well federal controls on hazardous waste disposal are functioning-a shocking report of noncompliance. The GAO survey covered only four states—North Carolina, Illinois, Massa- chusetts and California—but it revealed an abysmal per- formance by the states, the EPA, and the operators of the disposal sites in comply- ing with present federal laws. In Illinois and North Carolina, the GAO found that 73 percent of the hazardous waste disposal facilities were not in com- pliance with federal groundwater monitoring requirements. Massachu- setts and California couldn't say how many of their facili- ties were in compliance because they had not been inspected! No wonder groundwater contamination is becoming such an urgent problem. As one of the authors of the Resourcfe Conservation and Democratic Candidates Involved In Petition Drive Arthur Lubkin, Demo- cratic candidate for Hemp- stead Presiding Supervisor, Thomas Scopelliti, Demo- cratic candidate for Super- viisor and the entire Hemp- stead Democratic slate are now involved in a petition drive aimed at forcing the Nassau County Board of Supervisors to authorize a feasibility study of the takeover of the Long Island Lighting Company with the utility eventually t o be oper- ated by a bi-county con- trolled public power author- ity, Lubkin and Scopelliti announced. The petitions, Lubkin and Scopelliti pointed out, streamed that neighboring Suffolk County, by bi- partisan action, has already authorized and received such a feasibility study and that study reports that the establishing of a public power authority in Suffolk would result in a savings on electric bills within the next four years by as much as 30%. The two candidates said in announcing the petition drive that a two-county pub- lic power authority could,be expected to provide even greater savings for consu- mers than if Suffolk County were to attempt a takeover of only those facilities within its own borders. They also pointed out that there are already provisions in state' law for such a takeover and for the creation of a public power authority. Similar petition drives are also going o n in Hempstead, North Hempstead and Glen Cove. A post card survey is also being conducted along with the petition. Lubkin and Scopelliti also stressed that there are already more than 2,000 communities in the U. S. that have gone to public power including such large cities as Los Angeles, Cali- fornia, Columbus, Ohio, Anaheim, California and Jacksonville, Florida. The entire state of Nebraska is served by a public power authority. In taking their stand on public power, the Demo- cratic slate pointed out that there are several advantages to such consumer controlled operations. They are: 1. No dividends need be paid on common and pre- ferred stock. 2. Public power authori- ties do not have to pay state, federal or even local taxes. However, most municipal utilities make payment in lieu of property taxes to local governments, school districts, etc. The Demo- crats recommend such payments. 3. Lower interest jrates due t o tax exempt financing,, Last month Lubkin and Scopelliti and all other Nas- sau Democratic supervisor candidates also took a strong stand against the opening of Shoreham for \economic and safety reasons,\ POSTMASTER POWER. Joe Viacira, Postmaster of the Baldwin Post Office (right) joins State Senator Carol Her- man and Lou Urso, of the Lynbrook Post Office, in wishing Postmaster Tony Corso well, at the recent open house of the remodeled Valley Stream Post Office. U. S. Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-C-NY), who led the fight to keep FAA Administrator Lynn Helms from pulling the Regional Headquarters of the agency out of New York and with it, hundreds of federal jobs, announced this week that the final threat t o the future of the N.Y. facility has been eliminated. \During the legislative battle to keep the FAA (Federal Aviation Adminis- tration) at Kennedy Airport, I inserted language in the Fiscal Year 1984 Transpor- tation Appropriations Act that the FAA divulge its future intentions with regard t o the regional office consolidation. The FAA report required by this legis- lative mandate (and recently submitted t o Congress) does not include any plans for merging the New York office with the Massachu- setts operation, thus ending this ill-conceived proposal once and for all\. In July, 1981, D'Amato launched a comprehensive counterattack against plans to close down the New York headquarters and relocate 400 federal employees out of the region. \Armed with facts and figures proving the superior- ity of New York to Massa- chusetts for the location of a regional headquarters, I tes- tified before a Congres- sional committee, that, if anything, operations in New England should be moved to New York. Fortunately, we prevailed and the decision to relocate was reversed,\ stated Senator D'Amato. D'Amato notes that for the past two years a \specter of uncertainty has hung like a dark cloud over the regional office. \Reliable information had it that the FAA still had every inten- tion of moving out of New York. That uncertainty has been removed once and for all. The FAA is remaining at the very hub of international air operations. New York City\. Recovery Act (RCRA), I was stunned to learn that the controls we had so carefully drafted were being so widely ignored. Rep, James Florio (D—NJ) and I are joining in a bipartisan effort to toughen the RCRA laws so that owners of disposal facil- ities will be forced to shut down if they fail t o certify they are in compliance with the basic RCRA require- ments. Safe disposal of hazard- ous wastes is becoming increasingly important as more and more evidence accumulates of contamina- tion of groundwater from inproper disposal. Even though there are no hazard- ous wastes sites operating in our 4th Congressional Dis- trict, we have experienced the polluting effects of chemicals leaching through the soil into groundwater aquifers. Areas around hazardous waste sites are even more vulnerable. The House of Representa- tives is currently considering H.R. 2367, which reautho- rizes the Resource Conserva- tion and Recovery Act and strengthens its controls. 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