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Show South Edition Citizens _Sep 5 & 6, 1995 _ Page3 Chemical Incineration May be Hazardousto Health and Environment Continued from page 1 gency Operation Management, stated that Utah and Salt Lake counties participate in exercises regarding the TOCDF. Upon further inquires from the chairman of the Committee about the necessary agreements, Sager responded: “Tooele County has no agreementin place with Utah or Salt Lake counties.” sued the permit for TOCDF. The Division claims that those agreements are with Tooele South, of which TOCDFis a part. No other documents were able to be located to determine feasibility of those preparedness and contingency agreements for TOCDF. When questioning the Division According to the County attor- neys for Utah and Salt Lake counties, as of June, there were no agreements in place. What this could meanis that the residents of Utah and Salt Lake counties are being held financially hostage for on contingency preparedness planning, the Division responded thatit is not their responsibility to assure compliance, even though Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste regulations require that the TOCDF permit be reviewed five years after effective date of June 30,1989, and have updated contingency and preparedness plans (including written statements if agreement cannot be Tooele County emergency sup- port services without their knowledge. It could also mean that emergency support services (in- cluding equipment, personnel and hospitals), which the residents support through taxation, could become contaminated. The General Accounting Office report to the Senate and House of Representatives states that officials agree that in-place sheltering will be needed in chemical weaponfacilities. Assistance will reached). The contingency and preparednessplan are also to be developed in cooperation with the Division of Comprehensive Emergency Management, Department of Public Safety and state of Utah. This is known as the “Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Plan.” The plan is to have necessary cooperative agreements with the adjacent counties to the east of Tooele County for emergency support services. be neededin all areas, and the re- port acknowledges that administering the assistance would bedifficult. There were also concerns about controis to ensure that houses are property sealed. Some Utahns can rememberthe effects of in-place sheltering during the nuclear fallout from openair nuelear testing, Not much has changed from the ideology of 40 years ago. The effects of incineration on In March of this year, in testi- mony before the National Research Council's Committee on Review and Evaluation of the Army Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program,KariSager, the director of the Tooele County Emer- Music Study Improves Academic Performance Continued from page 1 instrument, he or she can benefit from listening to “quality, responsible music,” says Judd. “There have been studies that state if children have been exposed to extensive Mozart while most elementary schools, Then teachers are often concerned about the students missing their classes to attend instrumental music. “We have foundthereis ne significant differences in academics in these students when compared with students who remain in their regularclasses,” says Worthen. Yet a few years ago instrumental music classes in elementary schools were cut from two hours to one hour per week because of lack of funds. So now junior high bands are notas well-trained, and must play simpler music. But some instrumental music is better than none, says Worthen, doing homework, it improves their I.Q. seven to eight points.” All Baroque music, which ineludes work of Handel and Bach up through Mozart, can be beneficial, says Judd. “These compositions follow sophisticated patterning. They engagetheinterest of mind.” But if music repeats a pattern again andagain,as it does in modern Rap music, it turns learning off. “Rap music is not good,” says Judd. “Lyrics are about violence and crime. There is danger when these stay in the mind.” because participation in instru- At the other end of the spec- mental and vocal groups also can reduce disciplinary problems. He trum are the nine symphonies of Beethoven. “If children listen to these they do well in science and cites the story of a high schoo} in New York whereno one graduated. Ali of the students dropped out early. Then a requirement for music study was made mandatory and the graduation rate went up math, or any subject wheredisci- pline is required,” Judd adds. With ail these facts now on record, Worthen, Judd and other educators wish that the government would change its emphasis. “If most of our legislative bodies understcod thesignificance of what music does for students,” says Judd, “instead of putting money into computers, they would put money inte music lessons and instruments. Thenall the rest would follow.” to 98 percent. A similar case has been seen in oneofthe high schools in Granite School District,.he says. Some gang kids were skipping classes and having problems with the police. Then a Polynesian choir was started and the students came to the choirclass, although they still One EPA report identifies lev- els of dioxin in the human body, referred to as the “body burden.” According to the EPA, some adverse effects of dioxins occur at levels slightly above the average body burden levels currently found in the population, and that “as body burdens increase within and above this range, the probability and severity, as well as the spectrum of human non-cancer effects, mostly likely will increase.” What this meansis that it will only take a small additional exposure to ‘‘push” us over the edge and trigger adverse health effects. In other words, no amount of additional exposureto dioxin is safe. Moreover, the EPA noted that “incineration data shows high levels of dioxin formation at temperatures between 400-600 degrees Fahrenheit,” whichis the temperature at which one component of the TOCDFwill operate. On March 2, a “small” amount of nerve agent was detected outside the Johnston Atoll facility Thisis the third known release of lethal war agentat the facility. On March 14, when the governor of Alabama questioned the Army representatives about the lack of public notification of the number of low level agent releases, Kathy Gibbs, public affairs representative for the Army’s Chemical Demilitarization program, responded thatif the cause of the release and the corrective action is unknown, the public is not notified of the release. Upon further questioning concerning the numberof occurrences of this type of release, which havenot been reported to Congress and the public, Gibbs responded,“I don’t know.” Concerning the surrogate trial burn for TOCDF liquid incinera- tor number one, the surrogate trial burn plan was developed by the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste with public input. The Division determined that the surrogate trial burn would not present imminent hazards to human health or the environment, but ironically, an independent TOCDF site-specific Health and Safely Plan was prepared by the Division’s contractor, which was not part of the public documents in which imminent hazardsto human health were determined. It Community Calendar skippedotherclasses. Evenif a young person doesnot actually sing in a choir or play an While singing is included in the curriculum as early as Kindergarten, instrumental music isn’t offered until fifth or sixth grades in public health are known to present imminent hazards, and are largely an unavoidable risk to public health. The chemicals in the nerve and mustard agents stored at TOCDF are among the most lethal on the planet, and release of small amounts of these agents can be catastrophic. Incineration of chemical weapons releases live agents, heavy metals and other toxic chemicals into the atmosphere, through the smokestack. Dioxin is just one of the more than 1,000 chemicals to be emitted during the chemical weapons incineration process. EPAstudies have linked incinerator-produced dioxin emissions to cause: cancer, sterility, endemetriosis, birth defects, immune system suppression and feminization of male fetuses. Editor's Note: If you are interested in placing an item in Citizens’ Community Calendar, please mail or fax it to ‘Citizens,’ 135 S. Main Sait Lake City, Utah 84111. Fax: 237-2519. For more information, call NAC at 2372718. All items should be submitted two weeksin advance. @ Mothers of Preschoolers: MOPS(Mothers of Preschoolers) is a non-denominational support group that meetson the second and fourth Fridays of every month at 9 a.m. at Salt Lake Christian Fellowship, 615 E. 9800 South. Child care is provided. For information, call 572-0211. © Hogle Zoo Evenis: — Tuesday, Sept. 5 - Saturday, Sept. 9: Senior Citizen Week re- turns with special admission prices for visitors over 65. Saturday, Sept. 9, senior citizens enter free of charge. Tuesday through Friday, seniors pay $1.59. — Wednesday, Sept. 6: Hogle Zoo's Docent Open House, 10 a.m. to noon in the Auditorium. — Saturday, Sept. 23: “Bear,” the Utah Jazz mascot wili be at Hogle Zooto sign autographs and pose for pictures from 11 a.m. to lpm. @ Home Educators: Salt Lake Home Educators’ Fall Social, A Family Fast-Food Picnic, will be held Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. in the pavilion At Walden Park, 5300 S. 1080 West. For information, call Karen Racklifie, 269-1997 or Pollyanna fyler, 972-6773. © Singles Square Dance: Singles Square Dance Club is offering classes every Tuesday in September at 7 p.m. at Horizon Elementary School, 5180 S. 700 West. A $3 fee per nightis required. No partner necessary. For more information, call 571-2340 or 484-9934. © Hard of Hearing: The Salt Lake Chapter ofSelf Help for Hard of Hearing People will be holding a meeting, Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Utah Community Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 5709 S. 1500 West. Dr. James L, Parkin, chairmanofthe U of U Schoolof turns out that the contractor de- Division’s approval of the surro- terminedit was necessary to com- gate trial burn, and is now claim- plete a site-specific health and safety plan before allowing workers to enter TOCDF. Too bad the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste does not deem it necessary to do a site-specific health and safety plan for the surrogate com- pounds used for the surrogate trial burns of the five chemical weaponsincinerators at TOCDF. It is ironic that the Division’s goals and objectives state that its purpose is to protect human health and the environment within reasonable doubt. There are federal and state regulations which require that promulgation of performance standards, which establish the levels of environmental protection that the hazardous waste, treatment, storage and disposal facilities must achieve, and mandated thecriteria against which application of the permit must be measured. This is part of the Division's federally mandated compliance and state regulatory requirements. The question is: How is the Division to do thatif a site-specific health and safety plan is not done before the surrogate trial burns, to determine that no imminent hazards will occur and to establish the necessary levels of criteria for the protection of the environment and human health? The Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste claimsthat an independent engineer's certification for the liquid incinerator number one was also not needed for the chosis, a Consumer/Family Perspective.” Classes are Monday from 7 to 10 pm, Sept. 25 through Dec. 11, in the John A. Moran Eye Center, northeast of University Hospital. The cost is $65 per person or family. For TO OUR MEMBERS | upcoming surrogate trial burn for two other proposed incinerators at TOCDF. The Army and the Di- vision of Solid and Hazardous Waste claim that TOCDF has completed the surrogate trial burns for the liquid incinerator numberone. The following metaphor could demonstrate what this could mean: you cometo a bridge where there is a notice that reads, ‘‘Use at your own risk. Engineers have not assured the safety or design of bridge.” While this simple metaphor might be over stating the complexities of TOCDF’s five in- cinerators, it does establish the added necessary precaution and protection that the Division of Solid and Hazardous Waste needs to be taking into account to assure against human expendability, nowandinthe future. It is unclear w documents supported the Division's decision that promulgated criteria maintained during the surrogate trial burns if there was neither a site-specific health and safety plan nor an neer’scertificat: sumethat the Divisi ing the residents downwind of TOCDF to breath at their own risk? moreinformation, cal! 581-2975. @ Historical Jubil The Union Community Council is sponsoring the Union Fort Historical Jubilee from Friday Sept. Continued on page 4 A PRIVATE CLUB SANDYSSTATIO SEPT. 13-17 HEAD OVER HEELS SEPT. 6-10 WILD COUNTRY LIVE MUSIC WED,-SUN., STARTING AT 8:00 PM Karaoke- 7 Nights A Week Featuring Eagles Material 8925 SO. 255 WEST e No. of 90th So, Eastof+1 NOW YOU'VE CLEANED—MAKE SURE iT STAYS CLEAN AND DRY ow? one Zon, Window Wellrte o Coverings THE ADVANTAGES: @ ENERGY SAVER ® MOISTURE/DEBRIS CONTROL @ COST-EFFECTIVE 4.4cranes and oullt with > aaa on the highest quality materials. 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