WATER POLLUTION CONTROL LEGISLATION

Part 1

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

AIR AND WATER POLLUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 75, S. 192, S. 280, S. 281, S. 523, S. 573, S. 601, S. 679, S. 927,

S. 1011, S. 1012, S. 1013, S. 1014, S. 1015, and S. 1017

BILLS AMENDING THE FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION

CONTROL ACT AND OTHER PENDING LEGISLATION

RELATING TO WATER POLLUTION CONTROL

MARCH 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24

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WASHINGTON: 1971

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Professional Staff Members: JOSEPH F. VAN VLADRICKEN, LEON G. BILLINGS, RICHARD

HAROLD H. BRAYMAN, JOHN YAGO, RICHARD W. WILSON, PHILIP T. CUMMINGS, JUDY PA

RICHARD HEROD

SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION

EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine, Chairman

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...

Page

1

4

390

379

382

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

Michigan..

382

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

Seattle...

514

Prepared statement..

516

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.

497

Prepared statement...

499

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

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

State Governments...

541

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

491

Prepared statement..

493

494

APPENDIX-MARCH 15

Letter dated March 12, 1971, to Senator Randolph from Administrator
Ruckelshaus, responding to request for agency views and comments on

8.523.

65

Questions submitted to EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus by

Senator Boggs and subsequent responses_

S. 523___

S. 1012.

S. 1013.

S. 1014

Sewage from vessels.

Marine Protection Act of 1971.

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..-

Čurrent 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.

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

Pollution Control Act..

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

Authority.

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

Analysis of the proposed Marine Protection Act of 1971.

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

Analysis of the Power Plant Siting Act of 1971..

S. 75..

S. 192

S. 280.

S. 281..

S. 523

S. 573_

S. 601.

S. 679

S. 927_

S. 1011_

S. 1012

S. 1013

S. 1014

S. 1015

S. 1017.

APPENDIX-MARCH 16

Letter dated March 18, 1971, to Chairman Muskie from Hon. Linwood
Holton, Governor of Virginia, commenting on S. 523-

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___.

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

1971..

H.R. 6722.

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

Press statement from the office of Representative John D. Dingell...

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_

474

Mississippi: Hon. John Bell Williams.

474

Missouri: Hon. Warren E. Hearnes__.

Montana: Hon. Forrest H. Anderson_

Nebraska: Hon. J. James Exon.

Nevada: Hon. Mike O'Callaghan.......

New Hampshire: Hon. Walter Peterson

New Jersey: William T. Cahill.......

New Mexico: Hon. Bruce King-

North Dakota: Hon. William L. Guy.

Ohio: Hon. John J. Gilligan

Pennsylvania: Hon. Milton J. Shapp.

Tennessee: Hon. Winfield Dunn.......

Texas: Hon. Preston Smith...

Vermont: Hon. Deane C. Davis.

Virginia: Hon. Linwood Holton__

Washington: Hon. Daniel J. Evans---

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.........

587

589

Submitted statement.

589

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