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EPA announces

clean-up plans

SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP)-U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials scheduled a public meeting next week to discuss clean-up plans at the Seymour Recycling Corp. Robert Hartian. public information spokesman for the agency, said clean-up of the Jackson County site will begin in November if a federal judge approves the plans. Hartian told reporters outside the corporation’s gates Wednesday he sees no reason why U.S‘. District Judge S. Hugh Dillin would withhold approval whbr. he considers the proposed agreement at a Nov. 10 hearing at Indianapolis. EPA officials arranged the public meeting for 7:30 p.m. next Wednesday at Seymour Middle School to discuss cleanup plans. Chemical Waste Management Inc. of Oakbrook, 111., contractor hired for the clean-up, is ready to begin as soon as Dillin approves the

Legislative panel studies local tax option plans

. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - • Should Indiana school cor- ■ porations be allowed to impose • their own income taxes? • A panel of experts on local • government finance is trying to • resolve that question in time for • the 1983 Legislature. The committee, headed by • Rep. Jeffrey K. Espich, R- ■ Uriiondale, met Wednesday to go through a proposal for a new county option income tax. With • this plan, the schools wouldn’t get to levy their own tax but would share in revenues from a tax imposed by civil units of government, such as counties, cities, towns and townships. The income tax is designed to provide new revenues for hardpressed local governments and schools which have been constrained by the 1973 property tajc controls. With the income :tax and a corresponding corporate excise tax, counties :would be able to raise more money without adding to the tax ;burden of property owners. yThis is the most complex .[decision in government,” [[Espich said. “It’s much tougher [[than a state tax because the [state implements it and decides how the money is spent. With we have to fit it into a num-

Nuclear Freeze Campaign sees Lugarfoe, Fithian friend

: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An hide to Sen. Richard G. Lugar hays he doesn’t understand why The Indiana Nuclear Weapons freeze Campaign sees Lugar as hn enemy and his Democratic Opponent as an ally. -The- organization delivered petitions Wednesday to Mark Heknke, press secretary to the senator, and to Rep. Floyd Fithian. the Democrat running against Lugar. The petitions carried signatures of 40,000 Hoosiers supporting an “immediate, verifiable nuclear weapons freeze by the United States and the Soviet Union.” ' p'rother William Mewes, state coordinator for the freeze and member of the Roman Catholic

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plan, according to Beverly Kush, EPA’s on-site coordinator for the project. When Seymour Recycling went bankrupt, about 60.000 drums of hazardous wastes and 90 storage silos were left on the 14-acre site. EPA sued in 1980 to force a clean-up. Twenty-four companies that dumped hazardous wastes here have agreed to pay $7.8 million to clean up voluntarily, rather than face unlimited damages through a court action. The companies agreed to put the clean-up money into a trust fund, U.S. Attorney Sarah Evans Barker said. The firms also will be covered by a performance bond for another sls million, which would be used if the firms failed to meet their agreements submitted to the court, Mrs. Barker said. In addition, Chemical Waste Management Inc. officials said they would take out an insurance policy.

ber of taxing units and a number of interests.” Under the proposal discussed Wednesday, the schools’ share of the income tax revenues would be used to replace property taxes levied by the schools. Espich said the effect of this tax sharing would be to reduce the share of school funding which comes from property taxes. There is another plan that would allow both the civil units of government and schools to levy their own income taxes. Espich said that option gives schools more flexibility in their own finances, but it complicates the tax law. Espich said a subcommittee will meet next week to decide which of the two proposals letting just the civil governments impose the tax or letting schools and civil governments set taxes independently is the better alternative. Currently, a handful of counties has adopted a county adjusted gross income tax. The revenue from this tax is used to reduce property taxes in those counties. The big catch to this arrangement is that cor-

Holy Cross order, said, “Floyd Fithian supports the freeze and voted for the freeze when it came to the floor of the House. We ask his continued support. “Senator Lugar opposes the freeze,” Mewes said, adding he hoped the petitions would make the Republican change his mind and work for a halt in the arms buildup. “Our official position is we’re not endorsing either candidate,” Mewes added. Helmke said his boss supports the freeze and even helped write the Jackson-Warner bill, calling for a verifiable nuclear arms freeze. Fithian called the JacksonWarner bill a “fig leaf”

Lawsuit threatened against Enviro-Chem collaborators

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The state has notified 89 companies they will be sued for more than $5 million if they don’t agree to clean up hazardous wastes deposited at a Boone County site. Attorney General Linley E. Pearson sent warning letters Wednesday to the waste generators and to Enviro-Chem Corp.. which operated the waste disposal facility north of Zionsville and the site owner. Under the federal environmental “superfund” law, a state attorney general may

porations don’t pay the income tax, but they reap benefits of lower property taxes. Under the new proposal, a county corporate excise tax would go hand in hand with the new county option income tax. There’s no set rate for the corporate tax. Instead, a corporation would be required to pay back, in the form of an excise tax, the amount by which its property taxes are reduced through the county income tax imposed on individuals. For example, if XYZ Corp’s property taxes are lowered SSOO through revenue the county gets from the option income tax, XYZ’s excise tax would be SSOO. The income tax would be imposed on county residents and non-residents who work in the county and who don’t live in a county that has its own income tax. The maximum rate for the county option income tax would be 2 percent, phased in over seven years in most cases. The initial rate would be one-half of 1 percent and would rise automatically one-quarter of a percent per year, unless an ordinance is passed that freezes the tax rate.

covering over the fact it would allow the U.S. government to pull ahead of the Soviet Union in the arms race before calling for a freeze. “It leaves open the door to buildup to an unspecified point,” he said. Helmke said the bill would allow an immediate halt if the president and other parties agreed to it. Fithian voted with the minority as the House earlier this year defeaaed 204-202 the Kennedy-Hatfield bill calling for an immediate freeze. Mewes, Helmke and Fithian all agreed the effect of the nuclear issue on next Tuesday’s voting is difficult to gauge.

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sue if waste generators haven’t responded adequately within 60 days of an initial demand. Each generator is legally liable for all of the estimated $5.6 million cost of cleaning up the Enviro-Chem site, Pearson said. The state’s plan apportions costs according to number of drums and quantity of hazardous materials generators deposited at EnviroChem. Pearson said he offered the 89 companies these options: —Accept the state’s plan —Formulate their own plan

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consistent with the state’s objectives and clean-up schedule. —Pay the entire $5.6 million. —Pay $75 per drum and $1.36 per gallon of bulk material and arrange and pay for removal and delivery of waste —Face a lawsuit by the state. Representatives of 80 waste generators met in New York Oct. 19 to formulate a response to the state’s clean-up plan. Pearson will meet with the group’s steering committee Nov. 5 to disicuss the state’s plan and any alternatives generators might propose.

Food stamp consumption up

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - More than 3,000 people joined Indiana’s food stamp rolls in September when 442,490 people shared in $18.6 million in benefits, welfare officials report. State Welfare Administrator Donald L. Blinzinger said the

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