Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 15, 1991                   TAG: 9102150366
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

STATE'S WASTE MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR QUITS

No successor has been named, according to Gov. Douglas Wilder's office, which announced the resignation in a three-paragraph statement Thursday night.

"Cynthia Bailey has served capably as director of the state Department of Waste Management since its establishment in 1986," Wilder was quoted as saying. "During that time, the commonwealth has made great strides in improving its waste regulatory programs, in its solid waste planning and in its recycling efforts."

Based in Richmond, James River Corp. is one of the world's largest paper manufacturers. Last year, it ranked 81st on the Fortune 500 list of America's largest corporations last year. The company has been sued in other states because of pollution problems.

Bailey has frequently been in the news in Western Virginia because of her department's heavy involvement in the controversy over pollution from the now-closed Kim-Stan landfill in Alleghany County.

Bailey also took part in the state's reaction to the "fluff" fire which burned for weeks in November 1989 at a Bedford County automobile recycling business, and in enforcing department rules pertaining to the Ingles Mountain Landfill in Radford.