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<-*K ) Deficiencies corrected UNL close to trashing hazardous waste problem By Eric Snyder Staff Reporter The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is close to putting its hazardous waste problems behind it, an official said. After being cited for 11 hazardous waste violations earlier this year, the university has corrected the deficiencies and is awaiting ap proval of the changes by the Environmental Protection Agency, said Del Weed, manager of environmental health and safely at UNL. Weed said the changes were made in May, and the EPA is expected to approve the changes in the fall. “In our own mind they’re acceptable,” he said. Most of the citations were issued for the manner in which records were kept and the way materials were stored on East Campus, Weed said. The citations were issued after an EPA audit of UNL’s hazardous waste procedures. The university was fined for the violations. Although Weed would not give the amount of the fine, he said it has been paid. In addition to making UNL record-keeping in compliance, the university has hired a per son to oversee hazardous waste disposal at UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Weed said UNL produces roughly 20tons of hazardous waste annually. He estimated itcost#<* the university $120,000 per year to dispose or its hazardous waste. The waste comes from campus labs and agriculture and pesticide research, Weed said. Most of the cost is incurred, he said, when the waste is shipped out of the state by contrac tors, who dispose of the materials properly. In an effort to minim ize waste production at the university, some materials are being dealt with using alternative methods. For example, some pesticides now can be returned to the manufacturers rather than be handled by dis posal contractors. Weed said a substantial increase in waste production is expected with the completion of the George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research in a few years. Library will offer more resources By Eric Snyder Staff Reporter With the newest add ilion to UNL’s Library Indexing System, faculty members and students will have ex posure to a larger number of resource * materials while at the same time find ing them more accessible. IRIS Plus will allow users to index up to 16 databases with topics rang ing from agriculture to psychology. Users will have access to on-line catalogs of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Colorado Alliance Research Libraries. One database available through the IRIS Plus System contains the tables of contents of more than 10,000jour nals through which students can ob tain descriptions of nearly 600,000 articles. Students and faculty members will be able to gain access to IRIS Plus’s offerings through the 19 new work stations that are part of the system. Nine of the stations will be in Love Library, with the other 10 in branch libraries. Previously, database research was restricted to Love Library and could be done by only one person at a time. With IRIS Plus, databases can be searched from any of the worksta tions on campus and by several users at a lime. I The system installation is sched uled for completion in August, with all of the stations on line for the fall semester. mm-mmim ■ m £9 » ■'I Additional Reductions 0%' Sayings on Great Summer Closing ^ Sportswear & Footwear |SBBG53553!jE8Bm3EBBP|^ i