HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 3112

A BILL TO AMEND THE CLEAN AIR ACT SO AS TO AUTHORIZE
GRANTS TO AIR POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCIES FOR MAINTE-
NANCE 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 APPRO-
PRIATION 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

S. 3400

A BILL TO AMEND THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AMEND THE
CLEAN AIR ACT TO REQUIRE STANDARDS FOR CONTROLLING THE
EMISSION OF POLLUTANTS FROM CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLES, TO
AUTHORIZE A RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WITH
RESPECT TO SOLID-WASTE DISPOSAL, AND FOR OTHER PUR-
POSES," APPROVED OCTOBER 20, 1965 (79 STAT. 992), IN ORDER
TO PROVIDE FOR THE DISPOSAL OF JUNKED AUTOMOBILES

AND CONTAMINATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FROM LEAD AND
OTHER SUBSTANCES

64-886

JUNE 7, 8, 9, 14, AND 15, 1966

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WASHINGTON: 1966

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS

JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia, Chairman

RON M. LINTON, Chief Clerk and Staff Director
RICHARD E. GERRISH, Minority Clerk

WILLIAM R. HALEY, Minority Counsel

RICHARD B. ROYCE, JOSEPH F. VAN VLADRICKEN, WILLIAM E. MIRON, Jr., and LEON G. BILLINGS, Professional Staff Members

S. 3112

S. 3400.

CONTENTS

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

JUNE 7, 1966

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

Hon. John W. Gardner, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, ac-

companied by Dean Coston, Deputy Under Secretary; Donald Simpson,

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

Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs__

Norman Cousins, chairman, Task Force on Air Pollution of the Mayor of

New York City, and editor Saturday Review_ _ .

JUNE 8, 1966

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

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

Public Health Service, HEW, Dr. Edward Blomquist, Assistant Chief,

Division of Air Pollution, and Dr. Arthur C. Stearn, Chief, Division of

Air Pollution..

Dr. Walter R. Hibbard, Jr., Director of the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Depart-

ment of the Interior, accompanied by J. Wade Watkins, Director of

Petroleum Research_---

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138

JUNE 9, 1966

Hon. Lee Metcalf, a U.S. Senator from the State of Montana..

Dr. Harriet Hardy, assistant medical director, occupational medical service,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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165

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

Cincinnati.

203

JUNE 14, 1966

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

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

233

P. N. Gammelgard, director, committee for air and water conservation,

American Petroleum Institute, accompanied by Dr. R. E. Eckardt,

medical adviser, American Petroleum Institute..

Vernon Mackenzie, Chief, Division of Air Pollution, Public Health Service,

U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare..

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JUNE 15, 1966

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

Wesley E. Gilbertson, Chief, Office of Solid Waste, Public Health Service,

Bureau of State Services, Department of Health, Education, and

Welfare.

William S. Story, executive vice president, Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel-

Benjamin Schwartz, executive consultant, National Federation of Inde-
pendent Scrap Yard Dealers, Inc...

Hon. George Murphy, a U.S. Senator from the State of California, pre-

sented by Joseph Carter, legislative assistant____

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