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CLEAN AIR ACT OVERSIGHT

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

35-497 O

MAY 13, 14, 15, 16, AND 20, 1974

SERIAL NO. 93-H42

Part 1

Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works

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COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia, Chairman

EDMUND S. MUSKIE, Maine

JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico

MIKE GRAVEL, Alaska

LLOYD BENTSEN, Texas

QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota
DICK CLARK, Iowa

JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware

HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., Tennessee
JAMES L. BUCKLEY, New York
ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont
WILLIAM L. SCOTT, Virginia
JAMES A. McCLURE, Idaho
PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico

M. BARRY MEYER, Chief Counsel and Chief Clerk

BAILEY GUARD, Minority Clerk; RICHARD A. HELLMAN, Minority Counsel

LEON G. BILLINGS, Senior Staff Member

PHILIP T. CUMMINGS, Assistant Chief Counsel; JOHN W. YAGO, Jr., Assistant Chief Clerk JAMES R. READLE, RICHARD M. HARRIS, and RICHARD E. HEROD (minority), Assistant Counsels

MARGARET L. WORKMAN, and RICHARD E. KAIT (minority), Legal Assistants

Professional and Research Staff: KARL R. BRAITHWAITE, HAROLD H. BRAYMAN, PAUL CHIMES, TRENTON CROW, KATHERINE Y. CUDLIPP, PUAL F. EBELTOFT, Jr., GEORGE F. FENTON, Jr., RANDOLPH G. FLOOD, KATHALEEN R. E. FORCUM, ANN GARRABRANT, RICHARD T. GREER, RICHARD D. GRUNDY, WESLEY F. HAYDEN, VERONICA A. HOLLAND, RONALD L. KATZ, LARRY D. MEYERS, CLARK F. NORTON, JUDY F. PARENTE, JOHN B. PURINTON, JACQUELINE E. SCHAFER, DIANE L. STEWART, CHARLENE A. STURBITTS, E. STEVENS SWAIN, Jr., and SALLY W. WALKER

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CONTENTS

OPENING STATEMENTS

Page

Randolph, Hon. Jennings, U.S. Senator from the State of West Virginia-- 185, 625 Muskie, Hon. Edmund S., U.S. Senator from the State of Maine--

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

MONDAY, MAY 13, 1974 (p. 1)

Dowd, A. Joseph, vice president and general counsel, American Electric Power Service Corp., accompanied by Paul D. Martinka, senior vice president, Fuel Supply of the Service Corp_

Prepared statement

Lalor, William G., Jr., senior vice president, Southern Services, Inc-----
Pfister, A. J., associate general manager for power, Salt River Project,
Phoenix, Ariz..

Steele, Thomas A., manager, environmental department, Dairyland Power
Cooperative; accompanied by Joseph S. Ives, environmental counsel;
and Bradley Koch, staff engineer, National Rural Electric Cooperative
Association

Wagner, Aubrey J., Chairman, Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley
Authority; accompanied by T. L. Montgomery, chief, Air Quality Branch,
Division of Environmental Planning, TVA..

1

30, 65

37

20, 65

12, 65

58,65

3, 65

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1974 (p. 185)

Mallick, Earl W., vice president, environmental control, United States Steel
Corp

Milliken, Frank R., president, Kennecott Copper Corp.; accompanied by
David Swan, vice president, technology; Alfred Prather, counselor; and
Charles Michaelson, president, Metal Mining Division___.
Tucker, Fred E., vice president, environmental control, National Steel
Corp.; accompanied by Earl W. Mallick, vice president, environmental
control, United States Steel Corp; David Anderson, manager, environ-
mental quality control, Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John E. Barker, direc-
tor, environmental engineering, Armco Steel Corp.; and Frank K.
Armour, vice president, engineering and research, Interlake, Inc‒‒‒‒‒‒

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1974 (p. 279)

187

239

186

Adams, William R., commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection, State of Maine____.

279

Beard, Carl G., II, director, West Virginia Air Pollution Control Commission

300

Dreyfus, Edward, M.D., master of health, executive director, Colorado Department of Health..

296

Whitman, Ira L., director, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency

287

THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1974 (p. 319)

Ayres, Richard E., attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.; ac-
companied by David G. Hawkins___

Carnow, Bertram W., M.D., on behalf of the National Clean Air Coali-
tion and the American Public Health Association____.
Hawkins, David G., Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc_---
Moss, Laurence I., president, Sierra Club; accompanied by Bruce Terris_-_
Sheehan, John J., chairman, National Air Conservation Commission of the
American Lung Association; accompanied by Elaine C. Berlinsky------

MONDAY, MAY 20, 1974 (p. 625)

Coppoc, W. J., vice president, Texaco, Inc.; accompanied by Nelson Starke,
Shell Oil Co.; Howard C. Hardesty, Continental Oil Co.; and P. N. Gam-
melgard, American Petroleum Institute____.

Gammelgard, P. N., vice president, Industry Affairs, American Petroleum

Institute

Page

320

519

403

599

525

626

Hardesty, C. Howard, Jr., executive vice president, Continental Oil Co....
Nelson, Richard F., and Edward W. Starke, Shell Oil Co--
Starke, Edward W., staff engineer, Shell Oil Co...

644

694

698

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

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National Air Conservation Commission, statement of John J. Sheehan,

chairman

Environmental Protection Agency: Memorandum entitled, "Review of
Ohio Power Co.'s Request for Proposals for Particulate and Sulphur
Oxide Control Systems for its Kammer Plant at Captina, W. Va____

Continental Oil Co., “Coal and the Energy Shortage".

Kennecott Copper Co.:

Specific amendments to the Clean Air Act..

Natural Resources Defense Council:

Analysis of decisions which EPA has failed to implement_

Attachments to testimony..

Letter to Senator Muskie responding to an additional question_.
Opinion in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals__.

94

421

361

Petitioner's brief, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit_.
Sulphur Oxide Technology Assessment Panel, final report--

439

425

Ohio, State of, Environmental Protection Agency, letter to Senator Muskie
responding to the testimony of Mr. A. Joseph Dowd....

Shell Oil Co., attachments to testimony-

51

Tennessee Valley Authority, material supplied by:

Discussions of monitoring and dispersion__

83

area_

Stack gas sulphur dioxide removal programs, and state of the art_---
The assimilative and dispersive capacity of the atmosphere in the
TVA

106

117

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