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168 <br />• 1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />' 4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />B <br />9 <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />• 13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />~, 17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />• 24 <br />25 <br />of the children downwind from that mine. <br />One-quarter of those children show <br />elevated levels of lead in their blood, and the <br />Attorney General has wisely gone after that. mining <br />company and are now just today in the Denver Post -- <br />I don't know how many of you read the Denver papers <br />down here, but just today, "Cleanup Order Hits <br />Mining Giant. Owner Must Spend Millions More to <br />.Clear Toxic Wastes Near Telluride." <br />Now, the judge is now considering <br />ordering $45 million to clean up the toxic disaster <br />from this particular facility, and this is just <br />today's newspaper. <br />Now, looking again nationally, <br />lone-third of mining sites do not meet regulations <br />under one of our major Federal toxic waste acts, <br />which is called the Resource Conservation and <br />Recovery Act, which is a Federal act that was passed <br />in the '70s to protect people downstream, downwind, <br />from the toxic chemicals that are being used and <br />stored and disposed of on site at a facility. <br />Now, of the mining companies in the <br />United States, fully one-third of them, according to <br />EPA studies in 1980, did not meet those Federal <br />Now, on top of that we also know that <br />