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A. & C. Auto Wrecking: Telegram dated June 15, 1966.
Adlen, Robert N., counsel, Solid Waste General Corp. of America: Letter
dated June 13, 1966.

Adlen, Sam, AAdlen Bros. Auto Wrecking, Los Angeles, Calif

Blasingame, F. J. L., executive vice president, American Medical Associa-

tion.

Blue, David S., president, Louisville Scrap Material Co., Inc.
Clapper, Louis S., Division of Conservation Education, National Wildlife
Federation.......

381

-380, 404

351

105

Dorl, Francis J. L., Dorl System of Stone Protection: Letter dated June
7, 1966.

402

Douglas, Hon. Paul H., a U.S. Senator from the State of Illinois.

Douglas, Philip A., executive secretary, Sport Fishing Institute: Letter
dated March 25, 1966-

378

Dumas, W. W., president, National Association of Counties.

230

Fuller, Louis J., air pollution control officer, Air Pollution Control District,
County of Los Angeles...

Gammelgard, P. N., director, Committee for Air and Water Conservation,
American Petroleum Institute, accompanied by Dr. R. E. Eckardt,
medical adviser, American Petroleum Institute.

Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by

Dean Coston, Deputy Undersecretary, Donald Simpson, Assistant

Secretary for Administration, and Philip R. Lee, Assistant Secretary

for Health and Scientific Affairs__

Gilbertson, Wesley E., Chief, Office of Solid Waste, Public Health Service,
Bureau of State Services, Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Gunther, John F., executive director, United States Conference of Mayors

Hardy, Dr. Harriet, assistant medical director, Occupational Medical

Service, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hibbard, Dr. Walter R., Jr., Director of the Bureau of Mines, U.S. De-
partment of the Interior, accompanied by J. Wade Watkins, Director
of Petroleum Research__

Kehoe, Dr. Robert A., University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,

Cincinnati, Ohio.....

399

243

344

230

138

Kelleher, Leo J., national director, Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc.:
Letter dated June 14, 1966_.

379

Kilmer, Glen, Oregon Wreckers Association: Telegram dated June 15,
1966_

381

Mazzocchi, Anthony, director, Citizenship Legislative Department, Oil,
Chemical & Atomic Workers International Union___
Metcalf, Hon. Lee, a U.S. Senator from the State of Montana_

228

153

Michaels, Ralph, president, Association of American Railroad Car Dis-
mantlers: Telegram dated June 14, 1966 _ - -

367

Morris, Raymond E., managing director, National Auto & Truck Wreckers
Association, Inc.: Letter dated June 7, 1966.

378

Murphy, Hon. George, a U.S. Senator from the State of California-
Neu, Hugo, president, Hugo Neu Corp. of New York City.
O'Connor, Robert E., president, American Paper Institute__

371

367

104

Patten, James B., administrative assistant, Office of the Governor, State of
Montana: Letter dated June 14, 1966__

308, 415

Patterson, Dr. Clair C., Ph. D., California Institute of Technology.

Piper, Eldon, Montana Dismantlers Association: Letter dated June 16,
1966

381

Stebbins, Ernest L., M.D., president, American Public Health Association

Stewart, Hon. William H., Surgeon General of the United States; accom-

panied by Dr. Richard Prindle, Chief, Division of Public Health

Methods, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Educa-

tion, and Welfare; and Dr. Edward Blomquist, Assistant Chief, Division

of Air Pollution_.

Story, William S., executive vice president, Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel _ _
Thompson, Meredith H., engineer director, chairman, Conference of State
Sanitary Engineers, Division of Environmental Health Services, New
York State Department of Health: Letters dated June 10, 1966

Wormser, Felix E., consultant and former president, Lead Industries

Association, Inc., New York, N. Y..

Wright, Frank P., Frank P. Wright & Associates: Letter dated June 17,
1966.

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ORGANIZATIONS

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AIR POLLUTION-1966

TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1966

U.S. SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION
OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS,
Washington, D.C.

The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 4200, Senate Office Building, Senator Edmund S. Muskie (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Senators Muskie, Randolph, Harris, and Boggs.
Present also: Senator Cooper.

Senator MUSKIE. The committee will be in order. Today we are starting hearings on S. 3112 which amends the Clean Air Act, S. 3400 which relates to the disposition of junked automobiles and the question of atmospheric contamination from lead and other substances.

S. 3112 has two principal features: First, it increases the authorization for air pollution activities by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to $46 million for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and authorizes such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1973.

Second, the legislation would permit 50-50 matching grants to State and local air pollution control agencies and three-fifths matching grants to inter-municipal and interstate agencies for maintaining control and abatement programs. These new grants are in addition to the existing two-thirds matching grants to air pollution control agencies and three-fourths matching grants to intermunicipal and interstate agencies for developing, establishing, or improving such programs. The provision for matching grants to maintain air pollution control and abatement programs corrects a hardship which the Clean Air Act, by omitting such grants, unintentionally worked on communities and

regions.

S. 3400 introduced by our distinguished colleague, Senator Paul Douglas, of Illinois, authorizes funds to carry out a program of disposal of junked motor vehicles. I will not dwell on an explanation of this legislation because I know the subcommittee will receive a more than adequate discussion from Senator Douglas.

Also the subcommittee is taking the opportunity during these hearings to explore the question of environmental contamination from lead and other materials.

During the 2 days of hearings in this subject, the subcommittee will hear from representatives of the Public Health Service, industries, and the academic community. It is hoped that the information received from these witnesses will indicate whether or not a problem of air pollution exists relative to lead and other materials finding their way into the atmosphere.

If the information provided tomorrow and Thursday does in fact show that there is a problem, the committee then hopes to determine the scope of that problem and what methods might be undertaken to assure protection of the public health and safety.

Finally, the subcommittee will hear from representatives of the Bureau of Mines and the American Petroleum Institute regarding a recently announced agreement whereby the Bureau will test, for the American Petroleum Institute, various lead-free gasoline mixtures. A press release announcing the arrangement noted that lead is toxic.

The toxicity of lead is common knowledge, but the question here must be whether there are sufficient amounts in the air environment to create a hazard to public health, and if so, would the elimination of lead from gasoline provide a means of curtailing the emission of lead into the atmosphere.

I am sure these hearings will provide the subcommitee with the information necessary for it to properly consider the legislation pending before us.

I will now place copies of S. 3112 and S. 3400 in the record at this point.

(The bills referred to follow :)

[S. 3112, 89th Cong., 2d sess.]

A BILL To amend the Clean Air Act so as to authorize grants to air pollution control agencies for maintenance of air pollution control programs in addition to present authority for grants to develop, establish, or improve such programs; make the use of appropriations under the Act more flexible by consolidating the appropriation authorizations under the Act and deleting the provision limiting the total of grants for support of air pollution control programs to 20 per centum of the total appropriation for any year; extend the duration of the programs authorized by the Act; and for other purposes

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 Air Act Amendments of 1966".

CONSOLIDATION OF APPROPRIATION CEILINGS

SEC. 2. (a) Section 306 of the Clean Air Act is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 306. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act, $46,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1973."

(b) Section 209 of such Act is hereby repealed.

AUTHORIZATION OF MAINTENANCE GRANTS FOR AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAMS AND REMOVAL OF 20 PER CENTUM CEILING

SEC. 3. (a) (1) Subsection (a) of section 104 of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 1857c (a)) is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 104. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to air pollution control agencies in an amount up to two-thirds of the cost of developing, establishing, or improving, and grants to such agencies up to one-half of the cost of maintaining, programs for the prevention and control of air pollution: Provided, That the Secretary is authorized to make grants to intermunicipal or interstate air pollution control agencies (described in section 302(b) (2) and (4)) in an amount up to three-fourths of the cost of developing, establishing, or improving, and up to three-fifths of the cost of maintaining, regional air pollution control programs. As used in this subsection, the term 'regional air pollution control program' means a program for the prevention and control of air pollution in an area that includes the areas of two or more municipalities, whether in the same or different States."

(2) Subsection (b) of such section 104 is amended by striking out "under" in the first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof "for the purposes of", and by inserting in the third sentence the word "control" after "air pollution".

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