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OC'O W 14, 20W - M M <br /> Manteca/' <br />-mek, Metro Editor Lodi/Lode avis <br />-8275 <br /> 36Dal I <br />-mek@recordnet.com boosts <br /> au"Ugh - <br /> llama& per's decision to ban all fishing Dock area a tir f P-e <br /> pm the island. "In the three and Ready IRREW <br />—iter months since then, we've gained open to fl <br /> n return to a trea- at. Waste board to mull spending <br /> spot on Rough and ter to Port officials initially feared <br /> I that the Port of .lks fishing or launching boats $365K to exonpry��sh Royster fire <br /> Bch has taken over mould get hurt, perhaps by falling b"` Y <br /> ivy base, had closed ar� the water or tangling with BY Jim Sams <br /> ifety concerns, offi- 'd1dustrial equipment and materi- <br /> a", Capitol Bureau Chief <br /> ay. �s on shore.The area around the ' <br /> angered a small but Liarina has become even more _ r, SACRAMENTO — More than two years after <br /> the Royster fire fire near Tracy sent a plume of <br /> of anglers, includ- asy, Aschieris said, but port of- <br /> *.tary veterans, who grals believe they can work some- 'i o black smoke wafting over the Central Valley, the <br /> m state's waste board is re <br /> lines or launched Iatiing out to keep anglers and the preparing to put out the <br /> San Joaquin River mbrt safe and productive. Fyffe Rd.1 O still-smoldering blaze. <br /> A 75-cent increase in the states tire fee will <br />�r the islands east- m We are doing things where we =-- -- ' <br /> give the Integrated Waste Management Board <br /> fin, but we can't just do things t ti plenty of money to clean up the mess left behind <br /> C — as well as the charred hullos of partly burned <br /> tires left over from last year's Westley tire fire in <br /> Stanislaus County. <br /> Gov. Gray Davis on Sept 28 signed into law a <br /> bill that increases the disposal fee levied on new <br /> tires from 25 cents to $1.This will give the waste <br /> board an additional $25 million to $30 million <br /> annually to clean up the Westley and Royster <br /> sites, remove other illegal tire piles and set up <br /> market-development programs and a waste-tire <br /> tracking system to prevent the creation of new <br /> tire dumps. <br /> During a meeting Taesday in Eureka, the waste <br /> board will hear a proposal to spend $364,925 to <br /> extinguish the small portion of the Royster pile <br /> that is still burning so state officials can begin <br /> preparing a cleanup plan for the site. <br /> Board spokesman Chris Peck said so far no <br /> agency has been wilting to take on the likely <br /> multimillion-dollar expense of removing contam- <br /> ination from the Royster site, but passage of the <br /> tire-fee bill puts the waste board in position to <br /> take charge. <br /> Some people in the tire industry, however, <br /> think that the Legislature overreacted to the two <br /> blazes and gave the waste board more money <br /> than it needs. <br /> Terry Leveille, publisher of California Tire <br /> Report trade magazine, said the August 1998 <br /> Royster blaze and the September 1999 Westley <br /> fire destroyed the vast majority of waste tires in <br /> illegal stockpiles around the state. Waste board <br /> officials acknowledge that they have identified <br /> only about 2 million remaining tires in 132 <br /> dump sites. <br /> Nevertheless, the tire bill, Senate Bill 876 by <br /> Martha Escutia, D-Baldwin Park, passed the <br /> Assembly 54-21 and the Senate 21-11 in September. <br /> Please see TIRE,Back page <br />