Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 41l-S ~m ich ig)an D M ll Wednesday, July 12, 1978 Sixteen Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents The new Plant realit contin In li tion A count yester contra time b tion. proces EPA sets back sewage plant con By JUDY RAKOWSKY for its plant construction and sludge chemical PCB. long overdue construction of the hauling contract. Therefore, local officials reopened Ann Arbor Sewage Treatment the bidding and eventually awarded the seems to be coming no closer to THE SAGINAW-BASED Spence contract to Barton Malow Construction y, with delays and increased costs Brothers Construction Co. submitted Co. of Oak Park. Spence protested to uing to plague the project. the original low bid for the job at $33.2 the EPA about the contract award, and ight of an Environmental Protec- million. However, construction has the agency gave local officials two gency (EPA) ruling Friday, the been delayed by. the prerequisite of choices; award the contract to Spence y public works department removing the tons of old sludge that Bros. and negotiate an agreement on day decided to delay awarding a presently sit on the new plant site. sludge removal, or rebid the project. ict for construction so it can have County public works officials have At Monday's City Council meeting o consider its future coprse of ac- been wrestling with methods of safe Mayor Louis Belcher said "Both EPA objected to the bidding sludge disposal in recent months, com- choices are unacceptable" to him. ss the county had planned to use plicated by the content of the toxic Public Works officials and Council 00 LIIN-, ,.VUAILy 11CAU FIQI111GU LV bi3G r- - struction members agreed that rebidding the project will boost costs from about $2-5 million dollars. PUBLIC WORKS official Joe Price said it would be two months before the new bids are "in hand" and at least another month before the contract would be awarded and the State Depar- tment of Natural Resources (DNA) and See EPA, Page 5 Explosion kills 180; 300 more injured TARRAGONA, Spain (AP) - A runaway truck loaded with industrial gas exploded in a Mediterranean coastal campsite yesterday, engulfing hundreds of campers in flames. Police say they had recovered 180 bodies and feared the death toll would be much higher. Hundreds of persons were seriously injured, police said. They said some of the victims were blown into the sea by the blast. FLAMING GAS from the truck set off a chain reaction of smaller explosions of campers' cooking gas bottles. One police officer said the scene "resembles hell or what we think hell is like." A dozen houses near the campsite were destroyed and some of the oc- cupants were killed, police said. The blasts demolished about 100 camping trailers. A MADRID propylene transportation company - Cisternas Reunidas - took responsibility and said an investigation had been ordered to find out what hap- pened. Officials said it was the worst- ever campsite disaster. Police said the 38-ton propylene truck, carrying a single tank, overtur- ned on a bend in the road, rolled over the cement wall that separated the campsite from the Castellon-Tarragona highway and exploded. A spokesperson for the trucking com- pany said the truck was a Spanish vehicle built in 1974, part of its regular fleet, and was carrying its maximum load of 43 cubic meters of propylene at the time of the accident. Medical sources said most of the estimated 300 campers evacuated from the scene suffered extremely serious burns and many were about to die. VICENTE MIRABET, head of a bur- ns unit at La Fe health center in Valen- cia, said 40 campers had been admitted Nazis rally; crowd clashes Skirmishes like this broke out Sunday at the Nazi rally in Chicago's Marquette Park. See picture pages, 8-9. G Tisch group fails to file-documents LANSING (UPI) - The secretary of even a jail sentence. Those petitions are being checked, but state's office plan to notify backers of Robert Tisch, the Shiawassee Drain the alleged campaign law violation will the Tisch amendment that they may Commissioner who heads the coalition apparently have no bearing on whether have violated state law by failing to file seeking a 50 per cent property tax the proposition qualifies for the ballot. required documents, a spokesman said reduction, said he does not believe he The state campaign reform law yesterday. violated the campaign law since his requires that a group working for or The spokesman, Chris Thomas, said group is non-partisan in nature. against a ballot proposal must file a the Tisch tax cut group - the Coalition statement of organization an annual for Property Tax Reform in Michigan HE SAID he will consult his attorneys financial statement if it accepts con-