privately with industry. governor early tomlin had announced a bill to regulate the aboveground storage tanks that caused this mess in charleston. the governor started workshopping that bill in private with the industry groups that would be governed by that proposed legislation. surprise of all surprises, it turns out the captains of west virginia industry had a long list of ways to improve that proposed bill. they suggested lighter penalties for themselves and lots of exemptions for themselves. look at just a partial list of the exemptions that was published by the "charleston daily mail." exempted from the new regulations on these aboveground storage tanks are tanks holding just water, tanks on farms, tanks with 1100 gallons or less of motor fuel or heating oil, some po propane tanks, some tanks storing waste water. this one reads like a riddle in the paper's report. look. an exemption for any aboveground storage tank smaller than 1,100 gallons but larger than 500 gallons not covered by other portions of the bill but situated within 500 feet of a water source. why would that be an exemption