Water Pollution Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 45 [and Others] Amending the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to Provide for a More Effective Program of Water Pollution Control. May 8 and 9, 1961U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 228 pages Considers legislation to amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act. S. 45, to increase grants to municipalities for sewage treatment plant projects. S. 120 and related H.R. 6441, to intensify HEW efforts to ensure sanitary water treatment plant and reservoir construction, to establish water quality research and testing labs, and to increase funding to states and local governments for regulated projects. S. 325, to authorize Surgeon General, HEW, to establish water pollution research lab in the Pacific Northwest to study problems of water supply, pollution, storage and aquatic life. S. 571, to authorize HEW and Interior Dept to seal off mines in states to prevent pollutant runoff into water supply. S. 861, to establish a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration in HEW to perform water pollution control tasks presently administered by HEW Surgeon General. S. 1475, to authorize HEW to provide a plan to balance forecasted reservoir water releases with pollution control. |
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Page 7 - Welfare, but not exceeding $100 per diem, including travel time, and while away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law (5 USC 73b-2) for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.
Page 173 - ... it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to recognize, preserve, and protect the primary responsibilities and rights of the States in preventing and controlling water pollution...
Page 72 - Secretary shall, if such request refers to air pollution which is alleged to endanger the health or welfare of persons in a State other than that in which the discharge or discharges (causing or contributing to such pollution) originate, give formal notification thereof to the air pollution control agency of the municipality where such discharge or discharges originate...
Page 194 - Secretary shall, if such request refers to pollution of waters which is endangering the health or welfare of persons in a State other than that in which the discharge or discharges (causing or contributing to such pollution) originates, give formal notification thereof to the water pollution control agency and interstate agency, if any, of the State or States where such discharge or discharges originate...
Page 69 - USC 276a-276a-5), and every such employee shall receive compensation at a rate not less than one and one-half times his basic rate of pay for all hours worked in any workweek in excess of eight hours in any workday or forty hours in the workweek, as the case may be.
Page 70 - ... except that any such storage and water releases shall not be provided as a substitute for adequate treatment or other methods of controlling waste at the source.
Page 7 - Board shall make findings as to whether pollution referred to in subsection (a) is occurring and whether effective progress toward abatement thereof is being made. If the Hearing Board finds such pollution is occurring and effective progress toward abatement thereof is not being made it shall make recommendations to the Secretary concerning the measures, if any, which it finds to be reasonable and equitable to secure abatement of such pollution.
Page 9 - The Administrator shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $10,000 a year.
Page 13 - Code. (b) The findings of fact by the Commissioner, if supported by substantial evidence, shall be conclusive ; but the court, for good cause shown, may remand the case to the...
Page 12 - ... (d) If the Secretary believes, upon the conclusion of the conference or thereafter, that effective progress toward abatement of such pollution is not being made and that the health or welfare of any persons is being endangered, he shall recommend to the appropriate State, interstate, or municipal air pollution control agency (or to all such agencies) that the necessary remedial action be taken.