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Plutt started his state job on Aug. 1.  His late day on the job is Friday.
Transportation Secretary Sam Bonasso said Wednesday a search will be conducted for his replacement.  By law, the director has to be a pilot.  Until Pluss was appointed, the sate has been without a full-time aeronautics director for several years.
Susan Chernenko, who had served as acting director during the present administration, said Pluss had applied for a job months ago at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and that opportunity came up recently.
"He couldn't say 'no,'" said Chernenko, now acting director of the a resident [[?]] he was named to the position. Retired from the Air Force, Plutt decided it was better to work in Florida.
Chernenko said Plutt's wife still has a job in Florida, although the couple planned to move to West Virginia.  They had their home up for sale, she said, but have not taken it off the market.
The Port Authority is currently searching for a director.  During a meeting Thursday, authority member Jim Tilson said a field of 14 applicants has been narrowed to three.
Authority members will interview the three during closed-door, executive sessions on Oct. 18 a the State [[?]] by his fellow board members to serve as acting.  He commuted from his Wheeling residence and spent three to four days a week working in the authority office until July 31.
Chernenko said she was named acting director when Cohen left, but she hasn't applied for the director's job.  Cohen served in the dual capacity six months, and was paid $30,744 in salary and expenses, staff officials said.
He was paid $28.12 an hour and initially his employment was capped at $10,000.  After being paid $9,799, a new agreement was made which allowed him to make an additional [[?]] July 31.
Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper said Cohen was taken off the payroll after he asked Yeager Airport Authority to find out how much Cohen was making by filing a Freedom of Information request.
Questions were raised precisely about whether Cohen had a conflict of interest by serving in [[?]] roles.  He said earlier he [[?]] checked with the Ethics Commission and as long as he didn't [[?]] on hiring a new director then [[?]] isn't any conflict.
To contact staff writer [[?]] er call 348-5198.

Construction workers sue FMC over leak
by Maryclaire Dale
STAFF WRITER

Timothy Harr was laying block at FMC Corp.'s Nitro plant in December 1995 when he saw someone rush by in a full face mask.
In the next few minutes, Harr watched at FMC workers ran around "like chickens with their heads cut off."
A huge chemical cloud containing thousands of pounds of phosphorous trichloride and other chemicals was spewing out of [[?]] they were injured.
Wayne Scott Leap, a computer programmer for FMC, testified for much of the day Thursday about his work on a new computer system that was supposed to regulate chemicals levels in the reactor.
The system had been in place since the fall of 1994, and had been tested earlier on simulators, but workers were still finding a lot of bugs.
Meanwhile, the old system had its own problems.  Chemical operators

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