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Opponents of Harvard's embattled Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) will meet with Governor Edward J. King's legal counsel tomorrow to discuss President Bok's recent request that King ask the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to waive federal requirements so the plant can begin full operation...
...Clean Air Act of 1977 provides that non-profit medical and educational institutions may be exempt from the EPA investigative process on the request of the governor. Bok was unavailable for comment yesterday, but L. Edward Lashman, the University's director of external projects, said last week Bok made the request of King "entirely to save time...
...spokesman in the governor's office said yesterday the governor has not yet made a decision on Bok's request, adding that tomorrow's meeting may effect the decision...
...governor met with opponents of the $230 million project last spring and promised them that he would not interfere with "due process of the law," Ploss said yesterday. She added that she hopes he will maintain this position of non-interference with respect to Bok's request...
Linda Murphy, a spokesman at EPA's Air and Hazardous Materials Division said yesterday that regardless of Bok's request for a waiver, her division is "close to making a decision" on Harvard's request for a permit to operate MATEP, based on technical environmental information the University has submitted...