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obviously necessary.

Officials right now would not be casting about so anxiously for sources of potable water if greater attention had been paid by the States and their communities to the problem of pollution. In view of this laxity, more might have been accomplished faster by having the HEW Secretary fix the water standards.

Another provision in the compromise version could be used as a stalling tactic by industry. Companies will be allowed to appeal to the courts for exemptions from the standards.

Watered down as it is, though, the legislation will bolster the antipollution cause. It should do much long-range good.

Mr. BLATNIK. Mr. Speaker, I move the previous question on the conference report.

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The question was taken, and the Speaker pro tempore announced that the ayes had it.

Mr. ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a quorum is not present, and make the point of order that a quorum is not present.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.

The Doorkeeper will close the doors, the Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members, and the Clerk will call the roll.

The question was taken; and there were-yeas 381, nays 0, not voting 51, as follows:

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1.2i 1966 REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 2, MAY 10, 1966

31 Fed. Reg. 6857, 80 Stat. 1608

Providing for Reorganization of Certain Water Pollution Control Functions. Prepared by the President and Transmitted to Congress, February 28, 1966, Pursuant to the Provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1949, as Amended. Reorganization Plan Effective, with the Assent of Congress, May 10, 1966.

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL

SECTION 1. TRANSFERS OF FUNCTIONS AND AGENCIES.- (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, hereinafter referred to as the Act (33 U.S.C. 466 et seq.), including all functions of other officers, or of employees or agencies, of that Department under the Act, are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior.

(b) The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration is hereby transferred to the Department of the Interior.

(c) (1) The Water Pollution Control Advisory Board, together with its functions, is hereby transferred to the Department of the Interior.

(2) The functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel

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fare (including those of his designee) under section 91 of the Act shall be deemed to be hereby transferred to the secretary of the Interior.

(3) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall be an additional member of the said Board as provided for by section 91 of the Act and as modified by this reorganization plan.

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(d) (1) The Hearing Boards provided for in sections 10 (c) (4) and 10 (f) 3 of the Act, including any Boards so provided for which may be in existence on the effective date of this reorganization plan, together with their respective functions, are hereby transferred to the Department of the Interior.

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(2) The functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the said sections 10 (c) (4) and 10 (f) shall be deemed to be hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior.

(3) The Secretary of the Interior shall give the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare opportunity to select a member of each Hearing Board appointed pursuant to sections 10 (c) (4) and 10 (f) of the Act as modified by this reorganization plan.

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(e) There are excepted from the transfers effected by subsection (a) of this section (1) the functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under clause (2) of the second sentence of section 1(b) of the Act, and (2) so much of the functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under section 3 (b) (2) 5 of the Act as relates to public health aspects.

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(f) The functions of the Surgeon General under section 2 (k) of the Water Quality Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 905) are transferred to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Within 90 days after this reorganization plan becomes effective, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall present to the President for his approval an interdepartmental agreement providing in detail for the implementation of the consultations

1 Sec. 9 relates to Water Pollution Control Advisory Board.

2 Sec. 10 (c) (4) relates to Hearing Board appointed to consider water quality standards. 3 Sec. 10(f) relates to Hearing Board appointed to make findings and recommendations with respect to pollution of interstate or navigable waters which endangers the health or welfare of persons.

Sec. 1(b) relates to the administration of functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare related to water pollution, other than those authorized by the Act. The attached print of the Act reflects this provision of the reorganization plan.

5 Sec. 3(b) (2) relates to giving advice to Federal construction agencies on the need for and the value of storage for streamflow regulation for water quality control in the planning of reservoirs.

Sec. 2(k) of the Water Quality Act of 1965 does not amend the basic Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The subsection requires that the Surgeon General shall be consulted by the head of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration on the public health aspects relating to water pollution over which the latter official has administrative responsibility.

provided for by said section 2 (k). Such interdepartmental agreement may be modified from time to time by the two Secretaries with the approval of the President.

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(g) The functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under sections 2 (b), (c), and (g) of the Water Quality Act of 1965 are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may exercise the authority to provide further periods for the transfer to classified positions in the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service under said section 2 (b) only with the concurrence of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

(h) The functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the following provisions of law are hereby transferred to the Secretary of the Interior:

(1) Section 702 (a) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 490).8

(2) Section 212 of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 16)."

(3) Section 106 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 544).10

SEC. 2. ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.-There shall be in the Department of the Interior one additional Assistant Secretary of the Interior, shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall, except as the Secretary of the Interior may direct otherwise, assist the Secretary in the dis

Sec. 2 of the Water Quality Act of 1965 includes provisions relating to the voluntary transfer of civil service status of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service performing functions relating to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. These provisions do not amend the basic Federal Water Pollution Control Act.

8 Sec. 207 (a) of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 provides that no grant for sewer facilities may be made by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (formerly the Housing and Home Finance Administrator) unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies to the former official that any waste material carried by such facilities will be adequately treated before it is discharged into any public waterway so as to meet applicable Federal, State, interstate, or local water quality standards.

Sec. 212 of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965 authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants for the construction of sewage treatment works in the Appalachian Region in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, without regard to appropriation authorization ceilings or State allotments.

10 Sec. 106 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 provides that no financial assistance, through grants, loans, guarantees, or otherwise, shall be made under the Act to be used directly or indirectly for sewer or other waste disposal facilities unless the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare certifies to the Secretary of Commerce that any waste material carried by such facilities will be adequately treated before it is discharged into any public waterway so as to meet applicable Federal, State, interstate, or local water quality standards.

charge of the functions transferred to him hereunder, who shall perform such other duties as the Secretary shall from time to time prescribe, and who shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter prescribed by law for Assistant Secretaries of the Interior. SEC. 3. PERFORMANCE OF TRANSFERRED FUNCTIONS.-The provisions of sections 2 and 5 of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1262) 11 shall be applicable to the functions transferred hereunder to the Secretary of the Interior to the same extent as they are applicable to the functions transferred to the Secretary thereunder.

SEC. 4. INCIDENTAL PROVISIONS.-(a) So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the functions transferred to the Secretary of the Interior or the Department of the Interior by this reorganization plan as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine shall be transferred to the Department of the Interior at such time or times as the Director shall direct.

(b) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate.

(c) This reorganization plan shall not impair the transfer rights and benefits of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service provided by section 2 of the Water Quality Act of 1965.

SEC. 5. ABOLITION OF OFFICE. (a) There is hereby abolished that office of Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare the incumbent of which is on date of the transmittal of this reorganization plan to the Congress the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare designated by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under the provisions of section 1(b) 12 of the Act.

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(b) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall make such provisions as he shall deem to be necessary respecting the wind

11 Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950 transferred to the Secretary of the Interior (with certain exceptions) all functions of all other officers of the Department and all functions of all agencies and all employees of the Department. Sec. 2 authorized him to delegate functions to any other officer, any agency, or any employee of the Department. Sec. 5 authorized him to effect incidental transfers within the Department of records, property, personnel, and unexpended funds.

12 Sec. 1(b) provides that the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall administer the Act through the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration and with the assistance of an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare designated by him. The attached print of the Act reflects the abolition of this position and the establishment of the position of an additional Assistant Secretary of the Interior under Section 2 of the reorganization plan.

ing up of any outstanding affairs of the Assistant Secretary whose office is abolished by subsection (a) of this section.

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1.2i(1) INTERDEPARTMENTAL AGREEMENT CONCERNING CONSULTATION ON HEALTH ASPECTS OF WATER POLLUTION CONTROL, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, SECRETARY OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE, JULY 1, 1966

1. This Interdepartmental Agreement has been developed in accordance with the provisions of Section 1 (f) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1966, which states:

"The functions of the Surgeon General under Section 2 (k) of the Water Quality Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 905) are transferred to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. Within 90 days after this reorganization plan becomes effective, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall present to the President for his approval an interdepartmental agreement providing in detail for the implementation of the consultations provided for by said Section 2(k). Such interdepartmental agreement may be modified from time to time by the two Secretaries with the approval of the President."

2. The functions referred to above are defined by Section 2 (k) of the Water Quality Act of 1965, as follows:

The Surgeon General shall be consulted by the head of the Administration on the public health aspects relating to water pollution over which the head of such Administration has administrative responsibility."

3. The public health aspects of water pollution relate to man's drinking water; to his contact with water in recreation and work; to the contamination of food sources, particularly shellfish; and to the breeding of specific insect vectors of disease. The health threat is of three types; (a) chemical-both organic and inorganic contaminants, which can result in acute toxic or long-term chronic effects on humans; (b) biological-microbiological contaminants and insect vectors associated with spread of communicable disease; and (c) radiological-radioactive contaminants which in very low level concentrations may produce radiation damage in humans.

4. Consultation between the Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare and the Interior under the terms of this Agreement shall be based upon the following general concept:

(a) The Department of the Interior is responsible for administering the Federal Water Pollution Control Act as amended; certain functions relating to water pollution control under Section 702 (a) of the Housing and Urban Development Act

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