Maurice Hinchey: “let me address one of the consequences of this bill, which I hope is unintended but would nevertheless occur. Many of…”

“let me address one of the consequences of this bill, which I hope is unintended but would nevertheless occur. Many of the hazardous waste sites in New York, for example, and in many other States particularly up and down the Eastern Seaboard, were caused or created in whole or in part by small business which are nevertheless controlled by organized crime. We have organized crime dumpers who have been responsible for most of the toxic waste dump sites in the State of New York and in a number of other places up and down the Eastern Seaboard. This legislation I hope unintentionally would exempt those organized crime cartels who are in many cases the sources of the contamination and who are in almost all cases at least substantially in part responsible for transporting the waste from its places of origin to its place of rest, at least temporary rest, in these toxic and hazardous waste dump sites. This is a bad bill. It is bad and these bad provisions are there, largely because it has not had the opportunity to be examined and to be seen in its true light. So let us see it for what it is and defeat it because of what it is.”