2-MM~ p ohe MlhanDl-Wdnesday, Noember 17, 1993 Study reports 9,785 polluted sites throughout Michigan LANSING (AP) -- Michigan's list of polluted sites continues to grow, reaching 9,785 this year, but a record number of sites also were cleaned up in the last year, state officials said yesterday. Jim Linton of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said 1,028 new polluted sites were discovered within, the last year, most of them due to leaking underground storage tanks. But pollution was cleaned up or contained at another 353 sites and those are recoin- mended for removal from the list, which the department is required by law to compile every year, he said. That's up from 108 sites taken off the list last year and is the most ever. Lin ton, acting chief of the section that compiles the list. said the results show the state's environmental cleanup is picking up its pace. Fewer new sites are being added and more sites are coming off the list after being cleaned up, he said. "I'd say we are effectively addressing a large range of the most serious contamination problems that exist in the state and in respond- ing to those most serious problemis, we' re doing an effective job," he said. The two sites at the top of the list are the same as a year ago. G&H Landfill in Macomb County and Bay County's Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay tied for the highest score for threats to public health and the environment. Cleanup or containment of the pollution at G&H Landfill, paid for by the responsible parties, has begun. Evaluation or interim mea- sures are underway at the Saginaw Bay and Saginaw River. Overall, some 7,049 sites are due to leak- ing underground storage tanks. Those are to be cleaned up with money from a trust fund generated by a surcharge on fuel. The remaining 2,736 sites, or 28 percen t of the total, are made up of manufacturing sites, landfills, mining sites and others. Linton said evaluation, interim measures, cleanup or containment of the pollution is underway at 87 percent of the state's known polluted sites, but 13 percent of all sites have no activity underway. "A majority of sites are getting some at- tention in respect to the environmental threats they pose," Linton said. Cleanups were financed by state funds from a bond issue for environmental work or from private funds collected from those re- sponsible for the pollution. Increasingly, the state will consider con-@ taining the pollution ata site rather than clean- ing it up in order to reduce the threat of exposure to contaminants, Linton said. COOKISi 'DON'T BE A TURKEY THIS THANKSGIYINGuiu' STakje home some cooi je4 or muffins bake~d withi tove 1 I715 N. 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China's outline for market refiorms in,2s century is short on key details BEIJING (AP) -- The Commu- nist Party yesterday issued its long- awaited outline for new market re- forms designed to push senior leader Deng Xiaoping's economic revolu- tion into the next century. The 25-page document was short on key details, however, including how the measures will be imple- mented, and it left in doubt the effec- tiveness of the proposed changes. Market reforms already have dis- mantled rural communes and allowed families to farm their own plots. Price PRODRNEW TUNES x RECORDS' w CD wx r 4DA st aa a SNOOP DODGY 0066 SAVE $2.00 $10.99/CD $8.99/Sass GUNS N ROSES SAVE $2.00 $10.99/CD $.99/sass. METALLICA BOX SET SAVE $10.00 $09-99/CD $59.99/sass. BES COMING NOY.23rd TRAVE SMART! 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Enterprise reform will set up a new system under which companies will be able to reorganize into share- issuing or other types of corporations. The idea is to ensure they are run by professionals instead of party and government officials, and to ensure "the successful enterprises prosper and those which fail are eliminated ill the market competition." But it is unclear whether Beij ing is willing to take the political risks of closing enterprises that employ tens of thousands of people or forcing its members to give up power. The document also confirms plans to restructure the tax and banking system to bring order to China's cha- otic economic growth, which earlier this year sent urban inflation above* 20 percent. While the new system will in-, clude value-added taxes, a consump- tion tax and a reworked income tax, details are missing on how high the rates will be or where the revenue will go. 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