The State - News from Nov. 15, 1988

Casmalia Resources Inc., which operates a controversial hazardous waste landfill near Santa Maria that had been scheduled to be closed last week, will remain open for several more months pending a rehearing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of the agency’s tentative decision to close the facility. The 250-acre landfill stopped accepting liquid hazardous wastes three years ago but it continues to bury solidified acids, heavy metals, caustics, solvents and pesticides. EPA Regional Administrator Daniel W. McGovern said the EPA had no choice but to grant the rehearing under provisions of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.