Testimony of-Continued Thompson, O. C., chairman, Water Pollution Abatement Committee, Venetoulis, Ted, legislative assistant to Hon. Jim Wright, of Texas - Whitfield, J. V., chairman, State Stream Sanitation Committee, Whittemore, Mrs. Arthur E., League of Women Voters of the United Adams, Milton P., executive secretary, Michigan Water Resources Commission, additional information_ Page 179 Applegate, Robert M., city manager, El Cajon, Calif., letter, March 304 Arizona Game and Fish Department, Phoenix, Ariz., letter, March Bowler, Bruce, lawyer, Boise, Idaho, letter, March 16, 1961. Bowler, Miles D., mayor, Imperial Beach, Calif., March 9, 1961- Chamber of Commerce of the United States, letter, March 15, 1961, Citizens Council for a Clean Potomac, Washington, D.C., statement.. Colorado Game and Fish Department, telegram, March 10, 1961... Connecticut State League of Statesmen's Clubs, Inc., letter, March 9, Conservation Federation of Missouri, letter, March 15, 1961. Cramer, Hon. William C., a Representative in Congress from the Garden Clubs of America, Washington, D.C., telegram, March 16, Goodenough, Robin, mayor, Coronado, Calif., letter, March 9, 1961– Intercounty Regional Planning Commission, Denver, Colo., telegram, International Association of Game, Fish, and Conservation Commis- sioners, Jefferson City, Mo., telegram, March 10, 1961- Interstate conference on water problems, resolution VI, December 6, 318 303 301 116 Lapham, Dudley N., city manager, La Mesa, Calif., March 10, 1961. Legal issues raised by Mr. Cramer, answered April 10, 1961. Manufacturing Chemists' Association, Inc., letter, April 3, 1961- National Association of Manufacturers, letter, March 28, 1961. National Coal Association, statement by Walter F. Schulten.. National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc., Baltimore, Md., tele- Perkins, Hon. Carl D., a Representative in Congress from the State 236 Ribicoff, Abraham, Secretary of HEW, further statement 338 Schwengel, Hon. Fred, questions to Secretary Ribicoff with his 342 Additional information-Continued Seasongood & Mayer, Cincinnati, Ohio: Letter, March 10, 1961. Telegram, March 16, 1961.. Sisk, B. F., a Representative in Congress from the State of California, State legislation providing assistance to industries for waste treatment Page 305 316 318 273 Supervisors Inter-County Committee, Detroit, Mich., letter, April 5, 300 Tennessee Valley Authority, statement.. Virginia State Water Control Board, letter, March 22, 1961, with Wagner, Robert F., mayor, New York City, telegram, March 28, 349 FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1961 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:15 a.m., in room 1302, New House Office Building, Hon. John A. Blatnik presiding. Mr. BLATNIK. The full committee of the House Public Works Committee will please come to order. We are sitting today in public hearings on H.R. 4036 and related bills, the subject matter being the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1961. (H.R. 4036 follows:) [H.R. 4036, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide for a more effective program of water pollution control Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is amended by redesignating sections 2 through 14 as sections 3 through 15, respectively, and by inserting after section 1 the following new section: "FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ADMINISTRATION "SEC. 2. There is hereby established within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (herein referred to as the 'Administration'). The Administration shall be headed by a Commissioner of Water Pollution Control (herein referred to as the 'Commissioner') who shall be subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The Commissioner shall be appointed by the President by and with the consent of the Senate and shall receive compensation at the rate of $20,000 per annum. There also shall be three Assistant Commissioners of Water Pollution Control who shall receive compensation at the same rate as that provided for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 1949. To carry out the policy declared in section 1(a), the Commissioner shall administer this Act through the Administration under the supervision and direction of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare." (b) Section 1(a) of such Act is amended by striking out the last sentence. SEC. 2. (a) The sections of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act herein redesignated as sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 11 are each amended by striking out "Surgeon General" wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "Commissioner". (b) The section of such Act herein redesignated as section 6(g) (2) is amended by striking out "Surgeon General's" and inserting in lieu thereof "Commissioner's". (c) The sections of such Act herein redesignated as sections 5(a), 8(c), and 11(a) are each amended by striking out "Public Health Service" wherever it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "Administration". SEC. 3. The section of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act herein redesignated as section 5 is amended by striking out the proviso in paragraph (4) of subsection (a), and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(d) The Commissioner shall establish, equip, and maintain field laboratory and research facilities, including, but not limited to, one to be located in the northeastern area, one in the midwestern area, one in the southwestern area, and one in the Pacific Northwest, and one subregional facility in the State of Alaska; and, at such facilities, conduct research, investigations, experiments, field demonstrations and studies, and training relating to the prevention and control of water pollution. Insofar as practicable, each such facility shall be established at a point where graduate training in such research might be carried out. For the purposes of this subsection, the Commissioner is authorized "(1) to acquire land and interests therein, to accept in the name of the United States donations of any property, real or personal, to any facility established pursuant to this subsection (and any such donation to one of such facilities shall not be available for use by any other of such facilities), and to utilize voluntary or uncompensated services at such facilities; and "(2) to cooperate with other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, with States, State agricultural experiment stations, and other State agencies and institutions, and with counties, municipalities, business or other organizations, corporations, associations, universities, scientific societies, and individuals, upon such terms and conditions as he may prescribe. "(e) The Commissioner shall conduct research and technical development work, and make careful studies, with respect to the quality of the waters of the Great Lakes, including an analysis of the present and projected future water quality of the Great Lakes under varying conditions of waste treatment and disposal, an evaluation of the water quality needs of those to be served by such waters, an evaluation of municipal, industrial, and vessel waste treatment and disposal practices with respect to such waters, and a study of alternate means of solving water pollution problems (including additional waste treatment measures) with respect to such waters. In carrying out this subsection, the Commissioner is authorized "(1) to engage, by noncompetitive contract or otherwise, chemists, physicists, engineers, and such other personnel as may be deemed necessary and any educational institutions, scientific organizations, or industrial or engineering firms deemed suitable to do any part of the research and other work, and, to the extent appropriate, to correlate and coordinate the research and development work of such educational institutions, scientific organizations, and industrial and engineering firms; "(2) to accept financial and other assistance from any State, or other public authority, agency, private agency, institution, or individual in connection with research and other work relating to the prevention and control of water pollution, and with repect to such assistance to enter into contracts which shall detail the purpose for which the assistance is contributed. Any funds so contributed shall be available for use by the Commissioner in like manner as if they had been specifically appropriated for the purposes for which they are contributed and any funds not expended for these purposes shall be returned to the source from which they were received; and "(3) to acquire, by purchase, license, lease, or donation, secret processes, technical data, inventions, patent applications, patents, leased land and interests in land (including water rights and leasehold interests), plants, and facilities." SEC. 4. Subsection (a) of the section of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act herein redesignated as section 6 is amended by striking out "There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, and for each succeeding fiscal year to and including the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, $3,000,000" and by inserting in lieu thereof "There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year the sum of $5,000,000”. SEC. 5. (a) Subsection (b) (2) of the section of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act herein redesignated as section 7 is amended by striking out "$250,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$600,000". (b) Subsection (b) (2) of such section is further amended by inserting before the semicolon at the end thereof the following: ": Provided further, That in the case of a project which will serve more than one municipality (A) the Commissioner shall, on such basis as he determines to be reasonable and equitable, allocate to each municipality to be served by such project its share of the esti |