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GOVERNMENT/INDUSTRY LAUNCH POLLUTION PREVENTION PROJECT

Release Date: 4/17/1996
Contact Information: Lois Grunwald, U.S. EPA, (415) 744-1588

Jointly released by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the city of Phoenix, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and the American Association of Electroplaters and Surface Finishers

EVENT:    To launch an innovative pollution prevention project at
          three metal finishing facilities in Phoenix
         
DATE:     Monday, April 22, 1996

TIME:     10 a.m.

LOCATION: METCO Metal Finishing Inc., 3508 E. Corona Ave., a
          block south of Broadway. The event will be held in
          a dock area at the front of the facility.

PARTICIPANTS:          

          Karen Heidel, deputy director for the Arizona
          Department of Environmental Quality;
          David Gardiner, assistant administrator with U.S. EPA's
          Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation;
          The city of Phoenix;
          Jim Brown, vice©president of METCO Metal Finishing      
          Inc.;
          Steve Starr, branch president of the Phoenix            
          Chapter of the American Electroplaters and Surface      
          Finishers;
          Armand Mesey, vice©president of Astroplate              
          Inc.; and,
          Ellen Raber, deputy department head of the              
          Environmental Protection Department of Lawrence        
          Livermore Laboratories.


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