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Brooklyn Incinerator Plant Gets A HearingContinued from Page 5ponents still say the dioxin problem has not hppn aripouatply addressed.New York Public Interest Research Group Inc., (NYPIRG) representative Steven Romalweski announced that day that the group filed suit on July 15 against the DEC to halt permit hearings on the proposed Brooklyn Navy Yard plant because of a potential conflict of interest involving Judge Cohen, who the group says is being paid by Signal Environmental Systems. Under a contractual agreement, Signal will pay $63,000 to remimburse the State for Cohen%u2019s and his company%u2019s services. He also asked that the City solve its waste problem by recycling.FUMES CAUSE PROBLEMSteven Tasher, an attorney representing residents of Williamsburg and Manhattan%u2019s Lower East Side, an area critics say will be adversely affected by fumes from the plant,k is a question of how New YorkCity responds to a community benton stabilizing the city. Do we gethousing? No, we get garbage.requested that the application be denied on the basis that the %u201cDEC cannot make the required determination that the incinerator will not adversely affect public health.%u201dAnother representative from Williamsburg, Rabbi Chaim Stauber, said the issue went far beyond the imminent dangers of dioxins. %u201cIt is a question of how New York City responds to a community bent on stabilizing the city,%u201d he said. %u201cDo we get housing? Do we get protection? We get garbage,%u201d he added.%u201cThe time has come to speak openly of greed. We know haste makes waste, literally and figuratively. We also know that waste makes for big bucks,%u201d he said and stressed that the_opposition to the plant would not abate. %u201cThey know dam well in our case we dare not lose.%u201dRecommendations of the Citizens Advisory Committee on Resource Recovery in Brooklyn, a group composed of representatives of the three Community boards in the area, borough and City environmental and civic organizations and elected officials, were read at the hearing by John Dereszowski, and outlined conditions for approval of the permits. The group recommended that the DEC not %u201cpermit the operation of the BNY facility to commence until a reasonable further progress report of therecycling activities in New York City has been approved by DEC, with its approval based on the City%u2019s goal of 15 percent recycling by 1991.%u201dOther recommendations called for the continuous monitoring of emissions, that stringent emission standards for dioxin and furans be established as a permit condition, that dredged material loaded on barges be intermittently covered with lime to prevent a spread of odors and that the noise level of the facility be monitored.TAKE FIRST STEPSProponents of the plant requested an expeditious acceptance of the permit application, citing New York%u2019s solid waste problem as a crisis. Christopher Ryan read a statement on behalf of Staten Island Borough President Jay Lambardi saying, %u201cI champion resource recovery from the point of view of sound planning. New York City acted with dispatch and more importantly it acted with wisdom. The first steps must be taken.%u201dLouis Coletti, Chief Executive officer of the New York Building Congress, said: %u201cWe have reached the point of no return %u2014 for if we fail to act quickly and decisively on the development of resource recovery facilities, New Yorkers will literally drown in a sea of garbage.%u201dA statement submitted on behalf of Sanitation Commissioner Brendon Sexton stated: %u201cFor years sanitation experts have been warning of this impending garbage disposal catastrophe, but few ears could hear the cries for ideas and help. Luckily, however, the Koch administration recognized that the once long range potential for disaster was actually staring us right in the face.%u201dFollowing the hearings on July 15, an issues conference was held at 2 World Trade Center on July 16 to hear testimony for persons or organizations wishing to obtain party status for the state adjudicatory hearings to be held later this year as the next step in the proceedings to determine the outcome of the permits. At the conference presiding judge Jeffrey Cohen also heard testimony on the issues to be addressed at the future hearings.Signal Environmental Systems attorney, Joseph Zuckerman, joined by the City, objected to nine out of ten witnesses requesting party status, including Rabbi Chaim Stauber, the Interstate Sanitation Commission, the Natural Resources Defense Counil, Councilmember Abe Gerges, Assemblymember Joseph Lentol and Assemblymember Sheldon Silver. 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