HAZARDOUS WASTE BILL IN LIMBO

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 6, 1992                   TAG: 9202060225
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By MARY BISHOP STAFF WRITER
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HAZARDOUS WASTE BILL IN LIMBO
Botetourt has lost its "Bo Bill."
Sen. Malfourd "Bo" Trumbo's attempt to get Botetourt County some say-so in a cement company's plan to burn hazardous waste apparently has been thwarted for this session of the General Assembly.
The Fincastle Republican and Vinton Democrat Richard Cranwell, the House majority leader, crossed party lines to team up on the legislation a few weeks ago.
It would have given local governments a chance to control the location of solid-waste and hazardous waste-burning operations. The bill was custom- written to help Botetourt County supervisors deal with the proposed burning of hazardous waste as fuel at the Tarmac cement plant near Daleville.
Tuesday, the bill came before the Senate Local Government Committee. Sen. Brandon Bell, R-Roanoke, moved to report it out of committee. "There was no second," said Trumbo aide Loretta Parr.
So it went nowhere. The bill remains on the committee's docket, but the committee is not scheduled to meet again this General Assembly session.
Committee Chairman Virgil Goode, D-Rocky Mount, could call another meeting to deal with the bill. But "Bo said it would be highly unlikely," said Parr.
"I don't want to say that it's dead," she said, "but I don't know what else it could be. It's sort of in La-La Land."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB