Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia
BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico
THOMAS F. EAGLETON, Missouri
JOHN V. TUNNEY, California
LLOYD BENTSEN, Texas

J. CALEB BOGGS, Delaware

JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, Kentucky
HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee
ROBERT J. DOLE, Kansas

J. GLENN BEALL, JR., Maryland
JAMES L. BUCKLEY, New York

CONTENTS

WITNESSES AND STATEMENTS

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1971

Muskie, Senator Edmund S., chairman, Subcommittee on Air and Water

Pollution, Senate Committee on Public Works: Opening statement_--_.

Ruckelshaus, Hon. William D., Administrator, Environmental Protection

Agency; accompanied by David D. Dominick, Acting Commissioner,

Water Quality Office, EPA, and Eugene T. Jensen, Assistant Commis-

sioner for Operations, Water Quality Office--

TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1971

Clayton, Hon. William, State Representative, Texas, and chairman, Task
Force on Natural Resources, Intergovernmental Relations Committee
of the National Legislative Conference.

Curtis, Hon. Kenneth M., Governor of the State of Maine..

Kellogg, Hon. James C., executive assistant_to_Hon. William G. Milliken,

Governor of Michigan; accompanied by L. Purdy, executive secretary,

Water Resources Commission__

Prepared statement of Hon. William G. Milliken, Governor of

390

Mondale, Hon. Walter F., a U.S. Senator from the State of Minnesota...

Vanik, Hon. Charles A., a Representative in Congress from the State of

Ohio..

357

372

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1971

Canham, Robert A., executive secretary, Water Pollution Control

Federation....

562

Prepared statement.......

566

Gibbs, Charles V., president and director, Association of Metropolitan

Sewage Agencies, and executive director, Municipality of Metropolitan

Johnson, Charles C., Jr., American Public Health Association..

576

Prepared statement..

578

Kaiser, Charles B., Jr., secretary-treasurer and director, Association of

Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, and general counsel, Metropolitan

St. Louis Sewer District..

Prepared statement...

497

499

Krause, Keith, chairman of the legislative committee, Interstate Confer-

ence on Water Problems, accompanied by Dean Conrad, Council of

State Governments....

Magnuson, Hon. Warren G., a United States Senator from the State of

Washington....

Sosewitz, Ben, director, Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies,

and acting general manager, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater

Chicago, Ill.

Letter dated March 12, 1971, to Senator Randolph from Administrator

Ruckelshaus, responding to request for agency views and comments on

S. 523_

Questions submitted to EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus by

Senator Boggs and subsequent responses_

S. 523.

S. 1012.

Page

Marine Protection Act of 1971.

201

Questions submitted to EPA Administrator Ruckelshaus by Senator

Cooper and subsequent responses..

Refuse Act.

Best available technology-

Refuse Act__

Appraisal of existing State programs.

Table: Man-years assigned by State agencies by specific program

elements..

Table: Funding by State agencies for specific program elements. -

Table and charts: Federal-State expenditures__

Table: Industrial pollution control projects involving closed loop

systems, etc..

Water pollution legislation pending before Subcommittee on Air and

Water Pollution_.

Comparison of provisions (major bills).

Background..

Current activity.

Issues.

Analysis of S. 523, a bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control

Act

Section-by-section analysis of S. 1012, a bill to amend section 7 of the

Federal Water Pollution Control Act (State Program Grants) __

Analysis of S. 1013, a bill to amend section 8 of the Federal Water

Pollution Control Act...

112

115

117

Analysis of S. 1014, a bill to amend section 10 of the Federal Water

Pollution Control Act..

120

Analysis of S. 1015, a bill to establish an Environmental Financing

Authority.

124

Text of Marine Protection Act of 1971 (to regulate ocean dumping,

etc.____

126

Analysis of the proposed Marine Protection Act of 1971...

Text of Power Plant Siting Act of 1971....

Letter dated March 18, 1971, to Chairman Muskie from Hon. Linwood

Holton, Governor of Virginia, commenting on S. 523..

393

Letter dated April 5, 1971, to Chairman Muskie from Representative

John D. Dingell a U.S. Representative in Congress from the State of

Michigan, with enclosures.

394

Enclosures: Letters sent to each of the U.S. Governors, January 20,

Extract from Congressional Record, March 24, 1971, relative to H.R.

6722____

443

Press statement from the office of Representative John D. Dingell___

457

Letter dated April 5, 1971, to Chairman Muskie-Continued

Responses from State Governors to letters of January 20, 1971:

Alaska: Hon. William A. Egan..

Page

458

Arizona: Hon. Jack Williams

459

Arkansas: Hon. S. Ladd Davies (Director, Arkansas Pollution

Control Commission) -

460

California: Hon. Ronald Reagan..

461

Colorado: Hon. John A. Love_-_-

462

Delaware: Hon. Austin N. Heller, secretary.

462

District of Columbia: Hon. Walter E. Washington, Mayor.-

Minnesota: Hon. John P. Badalich, executive director-

Association of State & Interstate Water Pollution Control Admin-

istrators, by Robert A. Lafleur, president...

587

New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, Alfred

E. Peloquin, executive secretary: Comments on S. 523__

State of California Water Resources Control Board, Kerry W. Mulli-

gan, chairman..........

State of Indiana, Stream Pollution Control Board, Perry E. Miller,

technical secretary: Comments on S. 523.......

595

State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation,

Henry L. Diamond, commissioner -

596

New York Water Pollution Control Association, John J. Hennigan,

Jr., D.E., president___

"Federal Grants for Municipal Waste Treatment-The Need for Policy
Change," by James R. Ellis, reprinted from Water Pollution Control
Federal Journal, May 1970, part 1....

520

Letter dated April 13, 1971, to Senator Eagleton supplementing

testimony (with attachments A, B, C, D, E)....

527

Attachment A: Questions asked by Senator Boggs and responses

thereto...

529

Attachment B: Table-Federal grant participation in cities over

50,000 population, fiscal years 1967–71.

531

Gibbs, Charles V.-Continued

Letter dated April 13, 1971, to Senator Eagleton-Continued

Attachment C: The need for flexibility in choosing between

alternative solutions for the correction of combined sewer

problems---

Attachment D: Summary of major sewerage agencies, expendi-
tures, grants received, and incentive grant entitlement..
Attachment E: Specific legislative proposals by AMSA on water
pollution legislation___

Krause, Keith:

Interstate Conference on Water Problems-Report of the Policy

Committee, October 1970___

Canham, Robert A.:

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531

532

533

542

Resolutions adopted by conference...

545

Chart: Wastewater treatment plant and sewer construction_.___
Statement of Policy on Water Pollution Control, October 5,
1969_