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enrollment may decline and that
the area may suffer from lack of
growth. Neal did not think that
would happen.
“It’s much to soon to say
whether those things will hap-
.pen,” she said. “When we were
down at the Dow Chemical Plant
in Lx)uisianna that was not the
case. However, that plant has been
there for a long time, but that
wasn’t the case there.”
According to the N.C. 1986 An
nual Report of Hazardous Waste
Generation , Generation Storage,
Treatment or Disposal, hazardous
waste is a solid waste or combina
tion of solid wastes which cause
or signifigantly contribute to an
increase in mortality, in serious ir
reversible, or incapacitating rever
sible illness or pose a substantial
present or potential hazard to
human health or the environment
when improperly treated, stored,
transported or disposed of, or
otherwise managed.
“I think that it would be helpful
for people to understand that
North Carolina needs this facili
ty,” concluded Neal.
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All of these concerns are
reasonable and to be expected
from residents of a community
that may become home to a
hazardous waste center. After all,
what rational or concerned parent
seeks to locate his home and that
of his children near hazardous
waste. As an economist I would
like to see the debate include not
only the direct costs but also the
indifect costs of such a facility.
The costs of a hazardous waste
treatment center are not merely
the costs of construction,
transportation and operation. Nor
are they merely the costs in case
of accident. However large and
real these costs, they do not in
clude the cost of lost future
opportunities.
Thus, one must consider just
what the impact of such a facility
would have on the ftiture of
economic progress. Even IF the
facility were to be operated safe
ly over its entire life-span, there
are bound to be altered economic
decisions associated with the very
existence of the facility.
This point is obvious to current
property owners concerned about
the economic threat to the value
and safety of their property, but
who speaks for the future poten
tial property owners? Over the
last several years this area has ex
perienced, and will likely con
tinue to experience dramatic
demographic and economic
changes. Unless considerable at
tention is paid to future, and
uncertain, events it will be unlike
ly that an informed decision will
be reached today.
Public health is a public good
in the sense that the surrounding
community bears the costs of
poor health and lost productivity
or, alternatively, reaps the
benefits of good health and im
proved productivity. Economic
stability and progress can also be
treated as public goods.
Unfortunately, it may be a
necessary fact that a modern, in
dustrial economy generates a cer
tain level of hazardous waste and
the waste must be treated and
stored somewhere. But, in the
long run, the decision as to the
appropriateness of any one site
must be addressed by all
members of the community.
In order to reach an efficient
solution to the selection of an ap
propriate waste treatment center
all costs must be considered.
Costs will be incurred even if
there is no serious accident and
those costs will be borne not on
ly by individuals but by the com
munity as well.
Ideally, the Commision will
consider the indirect costs
associated with each of the fifteen
potential sites as well as the more
obvious direct costs.
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