of 1965, and Section 106 of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, and Executive Order 11288, "Prevention, Control, and Abatement of Water Pollution by Federal Activities."

The stated purpose of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is "to enhance the quality and value of the nation's water resources and to establish a national policy for the prevention, control, and abatement of water pollution." The responsibilities of the Department of the Interior, under the above legislation and Executive Order, involve the prevention and control of water pollution in consequence of the benefits resulting to the public health and welfare, giving due regard to the improvements which are necessary to conserve the nation's waters for public water supplies, propagation of fish and aquatic life and wildlife, recreational purposes, and agricultural, industrial, and other legitimate uses. To meet these responsibilities the Department of the Interior, through the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, conducts programs to identify and measure the extent of pollution and its effects on water uses and to assure the treatment and control of waterborne wastes.

(b) The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, under the Public Health Service Act as amended, is responsible for the protection of the public health. Within this responsibility, the Department through the Public Health Service is, therefore, concerned with the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man. As related to Reorganization Plan No. 2, these responsibilities include: determination of the health significance of water pollution; investigation of waterborne diseases and means for their control; provision of consultation to the Department of the Interior on the public health aspects of water pollution; and advising on the public health questions involved in the inclusion of storage for water quality control in Federal reservoirs.

5. Under the terms of this Interdepartmental Agreement the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare will provide advice to the Department of the Interior as follows:

(a) Recommendations on criteria for water quality standard setting based on health aspects of intended water use for drinking water supplies; shellfish and other marine food production, bathing, and other water contact activities. Recommendations will be provided and modified as new supporting data are developed.

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(b) Upon request, consultation and technical assistance in water-related health problems, as these may arise in connection with water pollution control activities, such as comprehensive pollution control programs, enforcement actions, control of pollution from Federal installations, water pollution research projects, construction grants, and the study of water pollution from vessel operations. In cases where epidemiological surveillance activities indicate that a probable public health hazard exists, the Public Health Service will initiate appropriate action to advise the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration.

(c) Review and comment on construction grant applications and on requirements for control of pollution from Federal installations for specific projects whose operation may adversely affect the sanitation of shellfish-growing waters. The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration will refer all such projects to the Public Health Service for review and comment.

6. Section 1(e) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968 provides for

the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to advise on public health questions involved in determinations by Federal agencies of the need for and value of the inclusion of storage for water quality control in Federal reservoirs. Advice on the effects of streamflow regulation on public health will be provided by the Public Health Service based upon the studies prepared by the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration under Section 3 (b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration report will be provided to the Public Health Service for review and comment. The Public Health Service comments, together with its own report on the production of disease-transmitting insects and other environmental health considerations in the project area, will be submitted to the Federal construction agency concerned.

7. To assure an adequate basis for such advice and consultation to the Department of the Interior, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare will, through the Public Health Service, conduct the following kinds of studies on the health aspects of water pollution:

(a) Epidemiological, microbiological, radiological, and toxicological research and investigations into the human health significance of waterborne contaminants, to determine health tolerance for such contaminants as they affect drinking water supplies, shellfish and other marine foods production, and water contact activities. (b) Epidemiological surveillance of the incidence of waterborne disease based on disease reporting, and on health-related water quality data derived from the Public Health Service drinking water quality network established under the Interstate Quarantine Regulations, the National Shellfish Sanitation Program, and [p. 3]

the Radiation Surveillance Center, and on data from the program activities of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration.

Investigation of waterborne disease outbreaks will be conducted in cooperation with State and local health departments. Data and participation will be requested from the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration when water pollution is involved in the outbreak. Reports based on these investigations which identify pollution that presents a danger to health will be referred to the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration for appropriate action.

(c) Studies of the relationship of surface water characteristics to the production of disease vectors such as disease-transmitting insects, snails, and protozoa. (d) Development of techniques for the identification, measurement and study of the behavior of waterborne contaminants which cause or influence disease, such as viruses, bacteria, organic chemicals, and trace elements. The results of these Public Health Service studies will be made available to the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration as a complement to its studies on identification and measurement of water pollutants, the results of which in turn will be made available to the Public Health Service.

(e) Study of methods of removing contaminants of health significance to meet human tolerance levels as related to drinking water, swimming pools, shellfish depuration, and food processing. To avoid duplication of Federal installations for pilot plants, when such facilities are required to study methods of removing contaminants from drinking water, Public Health Service personnel may use Depart

ment of the Interior facilities. To assure that such installations will adequately serve such purposes, the Department of the Interior shall consult with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in their design.

(f) Study of the human health relationship of waterborne contaminants to animals and plants used as sources of foods, such as shellfish and other marine foods, food crops irrigated with polluted water, including their field packaging, and use of sewage sludge as a fertilizer and soil conditioner.

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8. The Public Health Service and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration will exchange on a regular basis relevant health-related water quality data and research results. Particular attention will be given to prompt exchange of significant new findings which would affect the program responsibilities of either agency.

9. To effect essential coordination between Public Health Service and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, and to insure fulfillment of this agreement, each agency will designate an official liaison representative. These representatives, together with appropriate staff, shall meet at the request of either agency to discuss measures taken to implement this agreement and review any evident or emerging technical, administrative or fiscal problems which either agency considers might affect the proper functioning of this agreement. Any unresolved problems will be brought to the attention of the respective Secretaries.

JOHN W. GARDNER,

Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

STEWART L. UDALL,

Secretary of the Interior.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON,

The President.

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1.2j THE CLEAN WATER RESTORATION ACT OF 1966

November 3, 1966, P.L. 89-753, 80 Stat. 1246

AN ACT To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in order to improve and make more effective certain programs pursuant to such Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Clean Water Restoration Act of 1966."

TITLE I

SEC. 101. Section 3 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(c) (1) The Secretary shall, at the request of the Governor of a State, or a majority of the governors when more than one State is

involved, make a grant to pay not to exceed 50 per centum of the administrative expenses of a planning agency for a period not to exceed 3 years, if such agency provides for adequate representation of appropriate State, interstate, local, or (when appropriate) international, interests in the basin or portion thereof involved and is capable of developing an effective, comprehensive water quality control and abatement plan for a basin.

"(2) Each planning agency receiving a grant under this subsection shall develop a comprehensive pollution control and abatement plan for the basin which

"(A) is consistent with any applicable water quality standards established pursuant to current law within the basin;

"(B) recommends such treatment works and sewer systems as will provide the most effective and economical means of collection, storage, treatment, and purification of wastes and recommends means to encourage both municipal and industrial use of such works and systems; and

"(C) recommends maintenance and improvement of water quality standards within the basin or portion thereof and recommends methods of adequately financing those facilities as may be necessary to implement the plan.

"(3) For the purposes of this subsection the term 'basin' includes, but is not limited to, rivers and their tributaries, streams, coastal waters, sounds, estuaries, bays, lakes, and portions thereof, as well as the lands drained thereby."

TITLE II

SEC. 201. (a) Section 6 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended to read as follows:

"GRANTS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

"SEC. 6. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to any State, municipality, or intermunicipality or interstate agency for the purpose of

"(1) assisting in the development of any project which will demonstrate a new or improved method of controlling the discharge into any waters of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other wastes from sewers which carry storm water or both storm water and sewage or other wastes, or

"(2) assisting in the development of any project which will demonstrate advanced waste treatment and water purification methods (including the temporary use of new or improved chemical additives which provide substantial immediate improvement

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to existing treatment processes) or new or improved methods of joint treatment systems for municipal and industrial wastes, and for the purpose of reports, plans, and specifications in connection therewith.

"(b) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to persons for research and demonstration projects for prevention of pollution of waters by industry including, but not limited to, treatment of industrial waste.

"(c) Federal grants under subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to the following limitations:

"(1) No grant shall be made for any project pursuant to this section unless such project shall have been approved by the appropriate State water pollution control agency or agencies and by the Secretary;

"(2) No grant shall be made for any project in an amount exceeding 75 per centum of the estimated reasonable cost thereof as determined by the Secretary; and

"(3) No grant shall be made for any project under this section unless the Secretary determines that such project will serve as a useful demonstration for the purpose set forth in clause (1) or (2) of subsection (a).

"(d) Federal grants under subsection (b) of this section shall be subject to the following limitations:

"(1) No grant shall be made under this section in excess of $1,000,000;

"(2) No grant shall be made for more than 70 per centum of the cost of the project; and

"(3) No grant shall be made for any project unless the Secretary determines that such project will serve a useful purpose in the development or demonstration of a new or improved method of treating industrial wastes or otherwise preventing pollution of waters by industry, which method shall have industry-wide application.

"(e) For the purposes of this section there are authorized to be appropriated

"(1) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, and for each of the next three succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $20,000,000 per fiscal year for the purposes set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, including contracts pursuant to such subsections for such purposes;

"(2) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and for each of the next two succeeding fiscal years, the sum of $20,000,000 per fiscal year for the purpose set forth in clause (2) of subsection (a); and