Box 8, Folder 19: Kepone--Material, 1980

Containers:
Box 8, Folder 19
Scope and content:

30 items. Correspondence and notes relating to efforts to ease or lift fishing ban on James River, including Bateman's 2 July 1980 statement at public hearing in which he denied that Kepone posed a health threat to humans, 1 August 1980 letter from State Marine Resources Commissioner to State Health Commissioner urging reconsideration of fishing ban, Baternan's handwritten notes of 2 July 1980 hearing, and Bateman's 27 June 1980 letter to official of Virginia Seafood Council in which Bateman offers to represent seafood industry at future public hearings for a fee of $7,500.00.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
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Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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