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Both Signal and the City have objected to nine of Che ten parties applying for party status at the hearings including Assemblymembers Joseph Lentol and Sheldon Silver, Councilmember Abe Gerges, Rabbi Chaim Stauber, Interstate Sanitation Commission, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Enivronmental Defense Fund, Private Sanitation Union Local 813 and parties to a lawsuit represented by Donovan, Leisure, Newton and Irvine.NYPIRG, in its s u i, alleged that these proceedings suggest a %u201cpossible temptation to an average man sitting as a judge to try the case with bias.%u201d Rulings concerning party status have not been issued.In a broader conclusion, Kirschenbaum said: %u201cNeither Signal nor any other applicant should be permitted to pay for the ex-{tenses of an ALJ, either directly or indirecty. Also, any outside person retained by the DEC to serve as an ALJ should have no financial or business affiliation with the DEC or the State of New York.%u201dAt a press conference the day after the ruling, Weiner said the decision would delay progress on the incinerator for a significant time. NYPIRG toxic director Walter Hang also announced a new campaign that day to increase the number of groups opposing the plant and said NYPIRG would continue to lobby for citizen awareness of alternative plans for disposing of New York%u2019s 20,000 tons of daily garbage. The group has also called for a five-year moratorium on the building of incinerators.BY LIZ KOCHA State Supreme Court justice ruled last week that State public hearings held on the proposed Resource Recovery Plant in the Brooklyn Navy Yard may not continue to be presided over by administrative law judge Jeffrey Cohen due to a %u201cconflict in interest.%u201d The ruling will not affect public hearings held by the DEC last month, but has halted further hearings on the incerator project.The court ruled that a conflict existed involving Cohen, the judge presiding over the hearings, and Signal Enivonmental Systems Inc., the company applying for the permits to build and operate the incinerator, because of the arrangement whereby Signal would pay the State up to $63,000 for the services of the judge.%u201cAt the very least the situation at hand presents an appearence of impropriety and involves the potential for a conflict of interest,%u201d Justice Irving Kirschenbaum said in his ruling issued on July 31.The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) filed the suit in the State Supreme Court on July 15, the day the public hearings were held in Brooklyn by the State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). It charged that the cost for the presiding officer was being paid by the company and therefore created a conflict of interest. Randall Weiner, attorney for NYPIRG, stated in his petition to the court, %u201cthat a fair hearing cannot occur when the administrative law judge (ALJ) receives compensation, even indirectly, from the applicant (Signal) whose project the A U is judging.%u201d Weiner requested that past hearing be invalidated and future hearings enjoined.DEC countered the charges saying the designation of Cohen as ALJ and DEC%u2019s agreement with Signal for reimbursement are both in accordance with the Environental Conservation Law and DEC%u2019S regulations and that therefore neither %u201caction violates DEC%u2019s duty or ability to conduct a fair hearing on the facility.%u201d%u201cIt is standard practice for the firm to pay certain costs such as transcripts and the use of outside facilities,%u201d says DEC%u2019s John Moore, adding that the department did not agree with the judge%u2019s conclusion. He said as far as he knew DEC had not in previous instances allowed a firm to reimburse the department for services of a presiding office. %u201cReimbursement does not affect objectivity,%u201d Moore adds. The department is appealing the ruling.In his ruling, Kirschenbaum upheld NYPIRG%u2019s argument saying: %u201cThe Court finds that in a situation such as this where the ALJ knows that he is receiving a substantial sum of money only because an anxious and wealthy applicant lias offerred to pay it, a conflict of interest, does, as the petitioner alleges, exist.%u201d Signal h?.d sent a letter to the DEC offering to pay for the services of a presiding officer as an effort to expedite the permit process.Kirschenbaum added: %u201cRespondent (DEC; relies on statutory implications which the court does not recognize regarding the ability of some applicants to pay the fee of an ALJ.%u201dOne of the concerns raised by NYPIRG in the suit related to a July 16 issues conference,Newly Elected BoardMembers Get PowerThree new board members of the Brooklyn Heights/Fort Greene/Bedford Stuyvesant Community School Board 13 were elected as officers in the first meeting of the new ninemember board on July 29.New board member Donna Johnson, the former PTA president of P.S. 9 in Prospect Heights was elected as president and two other new members, Edna Schaem and Irene Janner, were elected, respectively, secretary and treasurer. Sixta Ponce, a veteran on the board, was picked to be vice president. Johnson was nominated by Schaem and seconded by former President Brenda Stewart, who held the president position for two years.Superintendent Jerome Harris was on hand to congratulate the new officers, and said he looked forward to cooperating with the new board.Also that night, a resolution was passed unanimously by the board to grant tenure to Corinne Mabry, the principal of Junion High school 265 and Aida M. 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