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Five members and an attorney for the Mission Hill Planning Commission (MHPC) told the Boston Redevelopment Authority that the research tower's size will induce a "down-wash" effect, deflecting downward hazardous nitrous oxide exhaust from Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), two blocks away...
...MATEP qualifies as "non-profit," Bownes wrote, because it is "wholly owned by a non-profit institution, Harvard" and because the EPA "could reasonably conclude that the facility will not make a profit on its sales of electricity, steam heat and chilled water" to six Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in addition to filling the complete energy needs of the Medical School, Dental School and School of Public Health...
...addition, "the bare possibility that MATEP may sell excess energy to Boston Edison in the future does not affect the plant's non-profit status, "particularly when there is little likelihood that such sales will occur," he wrote...
...decision marked another in a string of MATEP regulatory and court victories begun in November 1980 when, after several years of haggling, the state's Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) approved installation of the plant't six diesel engines under 32 operating conditions, aimed at preventing dangerous levels of diesel exhaust...
...MATEP opponents, who have battled the plant in court since its inception in 1976, have only one legal case pending--a state Supreme Judicial Court appeal of the DEQE approval...