The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much, Mr. Pohlit, I know of your good work over the years and the good work your organization does, and I am impressed very much in hearing your condensation.

I have read this and two things I will comment on briefly: In one, you point out that once a person receives a degree in the environmental health field, 90 percent of them stay in the field and 40 percent of those this is a remarkable percent of those-40 percent subsequently go to school and earn a master of science or doctor of public health degree.

You point out that 30 years ago the problems in the public health field were communicable diseases, and today they have to deal with problems of air pollution, industrial hygiene, physical stresses such as noise, emotional stresses of urban living and crowding, which may be more hazardous to the well-being of the Nation than some of the conventional illnesses.

In the interests of time, I will forego further questions. I want to commend you on the good work your organization is doing and the broadening concept of the name of your organization and how you are recognizing your role, concept and duties, and obligations to your profession.

Senator Dominick?

Senator DOMINICK. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Pohlit, it is good to see you here again.

I am glad that Colorado is so well represented here this morning. I would like to ask you a couple of questions concerning your

statement.

You have a statement on page 6 saying that money is needed for schools in the undergraduate training in environmental health.

Is not environmental health as such a part of almost all university curricula? That is, as far as undergraduate programs are concerned? Mr. POHLIT. No. Most of the universities have very, very little in the environmental health area. In fact it is really very disgusting, Senator Dominick, from what I have seen.

Senator DOMINICK. Shouldn't we work on that instead of building new schools?

Mr. PоHLIT. Yes. I only mentioned here, and I may have been mistaken, but it is that they hardly have a spot on the campus where they can house the teaching staff in good classroom facilities for such a program.

About the only one that is of any value in the country today is at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tenn., and also at Fair State College at Big Rapids, Mich.

These are pretty well taken care of. But other than this, they have cubbyholes. You know how most of the universities and colleges are run. It is very, very rough to get to the top and really get some type of a budget item on the allocation of space for such a new area as we are talking about here today when you contrast it with say math, or sociology, or chemistry, or what not.

Senator DOMINICK. You are talking about a doctorate degree, or an undergraduate degree? Do we need this degree of training with