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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA, 839 Bestgate Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401-3013; Tel: 410/266-9180) has turned its thermal oxidation unit off in response to community concerns of health risks to residents living near the proposed superfund Pemaco site, a former chemical mixing plant (Maywood, CA). "This relationship with the community is important to us," says Kathi Moore, the EPA's superfund section chief. "We believe the treatment has been effective, but we are turning the unit off because of community concerns and our desire to build our relationship with the community. At this point we feel we can address the remaining contamination through the superfund process, …