FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT-1966 89-2 66-507 (89-38) HEARINGS BEFORE THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY SEP 1966 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESOCUMENT EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 13104 and H.R. 16076 JULY 12, 13, AND 14, 1966 Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1966 S-C8 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS GEORGE H. FALLON, Maryland, Chairman JOHN A. BLATNIK, Minnesota KENNETH J. GRAY, Illinois ED EDMONDSON, Oklahoma HAROLD T. JOHNSON, California W. J. BRYAN DORN, South Carolina DAVID N. HENDERSON, North Carolina J. RUSSELL TUTEN, Georgia ROBERT A. EVERETT, Tennessee RICHARD D. MCCARTHY, New York JOHN R. SCHMIDHAUSER, Iowa ROBERT E. SWEENEY, Ohio JAMES J. HOWARD, New Jersey KEN W. DYAL, California WILLIAM C. CRAMER, Florida CONTENTS Adams, William R., chairman, Board of American Paper Institute, accompanied by Malcolm L. Taylor and Charles J. Hickey - Clapper, Louis S., on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation..... Clusen, Mrs. Donald, director and chairman of Water Resources Committee, League of Women Voters of the United States. Conte, Hon. Silvio O., a Representative in Congress from the State of Dingell, Hon. John D., a Representative in Congress from the State Douglas, Philip A., executive secretary, Sport Fishing Institute.. Gallagher, David L., chairman, Facilities Development Subcommittee, Area Industrial Problems Committee, National Association of Manufacturers, accompanied by Daniel W. Cannon__. Gammelgard, P. N., director, Committee for Air and Water Conserva- tion, American Petroleum Institute__ Horton, Hon. Frank, a Representative in Congress from the State of Irwin, Hon. Donald J., a Representative in Congress from the State of Kinney, Jack, professional sanitary engineer, Ann Arbor, Mich.. Page 65 165 164 171 71 Smith, Dr. Spencer M., Jr., secretary, Citizens Committee on Na- 265 Thieme, Reinhold W., Interstate Conference on Water Problems, 116 Thomas, Craig, assistant legislative director, American Farm Bureau 242 Tucker, F. E., manager, pollution control and service, National Steel 226 Udall, Stewart L., Secretary of Interior, accompanied by Commis- 21 Vanik, Hon. Charles A., a Representative in Congress from the State 161 Von Frank, A. J., chairman, Water Resources Committee, Manu- 111 Wilbar, C. L., Jr., M.D., secretary of health, Commonwealth of 100 American Paper Institute, Inc., statement and other material. 145 18 Boland, Hon. Edward P., a Representative in Congress from the Additional information-Continued Callison, Charles H., assistant to the president, National Audubon Chamber of Commerce of the United States, statement by John J. Page 307 330 Delaware River Basin Commission, Trenton, N.J., letter, July 28, 320 Dow Chemical Company, letter, July 22, 1966, from II.D. Doan, 324 Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, letter, July 21, 1966, by 313 Harris, Roy M., director, Washington State Pollution Control Com- 98 Investment Bankers Association of America, statement.. Guide for action to water quality... Industrial Water Engineering, article by Edward J. Cleary, "The Interspace Technical Journal, articles: "The Citizen and Water Management," by John E. Kinney. Kinney, John E.: Attorney General, William M. Gross, assistant, letter, June 7, 1966. Maps: Chemical type of rivers... 205 210 214 310 190 172 175 Oxygen concentration in Ohio streams. faces page 194 Statement, with inserts 196 Kowalski, Joseph J., speaker, House of Representatives of Michigan, letter, July 8, 1966. 97 Locher, Ralph, mayor of Cleveland, Ohio: Conference of mayors resolution.......... 72 Lake Erie States Get More Time for Pollution Plans, article by 90 Water pollution control 72 Mackie, Hon. John C., a Representative in Congress from the State 168 Morse, Hon. F. Bradford, a Representative in Congress from the 318 National Engineering Science Co., letter, July 15, 1966. 308 New England Council, letter, July 25, 1966, by Melvin Peach, chief 321 Soap and Detergent Association: Article, "A Procedure and Standards for the Determination of 281 Statement.. 273 Sport Fishing Institute, article "Clean Water Through Water Quality 254 Stalbaum, Hon. Lynn E., a Representative in Congress from the State 218 Suffolk County Department of Health, statement. 310 Water Pollution Control Federation, statement by Ralph E. Fuhrman, 313 FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL ACT-1966 TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1966 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D.C. The committee met at 10:10 a.m., in room 2167, Rayburn Building, Hon. John A. Blatnik, acting chairman, presiding. Mr. BLATNIK. The House Public Works Committee will please come to order. We meet today beginning public hearings on H.R. 13104, by Mr. Fallon, chairman of the committee, to provide a program of pollution control and abatement in selected river basins of the United States through comprehensive planning and financial assistance, and so forth. We also have H.R. 16076, by the acting chairman, Mr. Blatnik, and several related bills touching on various aspects of the Federal water pollution control program now underway. (H.R. 13104 and H.R. 16076 along with the list of bills follow :) [H.R. 13104, 89th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To provide a program of pollution control and abatement in selected river basins of the United States through comprehensive planning and financial assistance, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I SEC. 101. This title may be cited as the "Clean Rivers Restoration Act of 1966”. SEC. 102. Congress finds and declares that the clear, fresh, natural waters of the Nation's rivers, lakes, streams, estuaries, bays, and coastal areas have become despoiled and unsightly dumping grounds for the wastes of our industries and for the raw or inadequately treated sewage of our communities; that there is a national concern for the potentially harmful effects of these waters to our health and welfare, for the esthetic quality of these waters, and for the suitability of these waters for municipal, agricultural, industrial, recreational, and wildlife and sport and commercial fish uses; that there is a national urgency to control, prevent, and eliminate polluting substances in these waters through the construction, where appropriate, of coordinated river basin or areawide treatment works and water and sewer facilities if these waters are to be reclaimed and restored to adequate standards of quality for all our health, welfare, and resource needs; that the Federal programs now authorized to provide financial assistance in the construction of such works and facilities are oriented toward assistance to individual municipalities and cities throughout the Nation; and that these programs need to be supplemented by a program that focuses upon cleaning entire river basins or parts thereof in a manner that achieves, along with other new private and public measures, water of adequate quality, and that encourages the establishment of desirable economic incentives to water users to conserve water and to minimize pollution through the provision of new local or interstate bodies and policies which will lead to the assumption of full financial responsibility by such bodies for the provision of water treatment works and water and sewer facilities in the most effective and economicaiiy efficient manner. 1 |