FOREIGN DOCUMENTS                     Number 2
  ANNOUNCEMENTS
             SUMMARIES  OF
      FOREIGN GOVERNMENT
           ENVIRONMENTAL
                 REPORTS
                  OCTOBER, 1972
                       Library Systems Branch,
                       Office of Planning and Management
                              an d
                       Office of Internationa! Activities
              U  S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

                     Washington, D C. 20460

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Under a series  of documents exchange agreements with environmental
agencies in other countries, EPA is building a collection of
environmental reports issued by foreign governments and international
organizations.  This is the second in a series of Announcements  of
foreign documents received.

The original documents can be obtained through the Library Systems
Branch (see back page for order form).  More detailed English
abstracts can be provided when required.  Full text translations,
which are expensive, should be requested only when essential for
operation of EPA programs.  Translation Services Requisition Form
11350-1 is used to request translations.

A computerized search system is being developed which will allow
future retrieval of these summaries by:

     a.  country
     b.  subject area

         air
         water
         noise
         pesticides
         radiation
         solid waste management

     c.  type of document

         legal/legisiative/regulatory
         management/pianning
         scientific/technical
         socio-economic

This series, which is devoted  to summaries of government reports
and concentrated on the legislative,  economic and social aspects,
supplements foreign scientific and technical  literature  abstracts
covered by other EPA information services:

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         SWIRS
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Ultimately, EPA plans to  assemble a major collection of  foreign
government environments documents and to develop several approaches
to the dissemination of this information to EPA staff.   This
announcement of documents received is the first step.

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                                 AIR
Czecho-     Article/Source Title:  Meteorolpgicheskiye
Slovakia      aspekty zagryazneniya atmosfery  (Meteorologi-
              cal Aspects of Atmospheric Pollution).  Ed.
              by M. E. Berlyand
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Leningrad
            Pages:  371             Language:  Russian
            Source Repository:  EPA	

                 The book contains 39 reports of specialists
            at the International Symposium at Leningrad with
            summaries of each in English (or in Russian from
            articles in German).

                 The reports give an account of the present
            state and perspectives of the problem.  The
            methods of calculation of industrial pollutant
          '  dispersion in the atmosphere, the results of
            theoretical and experimental investigations of
            pollutant distribution in the air, modern meth-
            ods of the estimation of contaminant concentra-
            tions and meteorological factors which produce
            an effect upon the transfer of pollutants in the
            atmosphere are discussed.  The automation of
            data processing, statistical analysis of the in-
            formation on air pollution, investigations of
            the effect of terrain topography on pollutant
            dispersion,  simulation in wind tunnels, etc.,
            are described.
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 Control
 No.  SO-132
Denmark     Article/Source Title:  "Poisonous Fall-out."
              Sweden Now, Vol. 6, No. 5
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972, Stockholm
            Page:  26               Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 This item reports a Lund University re-
            search worker's recent discovery of a method of
            measuring airborne fall-out of PCB and DDT.   The
            pollutants were collected on a specially impreg-
            nated net stretched over a steel frame.  Fall-
            out of PCB, greatest in western Sweden, is at-
            tributed to Danish industries.  DDT fall-out is
            greatest in the east, and is blamed on Swedish
            forest cultivation and on East Germany and
            Poland.
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No. SO-133

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                                 AIR
Denmark     Article/Source Title:  "Company News:  Environ-
              ment Tours."  Sweden Now, Vol. 6, No. 3
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972, Stockholm
            Page:  16               Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 Scandinavian Airlines System  (SAS) sched-
            uled special "environment tours" of Denmark,
            Norway, and Sweden for foreign engineers and
            executives during the summer of 1972.  Swedish
            industrialists lauded SAS initiative which fa-
            cilitated the sale of their antipollution equip-
            ment.  Foreign adoption of Swedish firms' tech-
            niques also enables them to expand pollution
            control investments and still remain competi-
            tive.
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Control
No. SO-134
East        See AIR (Czechoslovakia)  —  Control  No.  SO-132
Germany         AIR (Denmark)  —  Control No.  SO-133
Code
 France      Article/Source Title:   "The French Vote with
               Bicycles" by Justine De Lacy Keller.   Not Man
               Apart,  Vol.  2,  No.  5
             Date/Place of Publication:   May 1972,  San
               Francisco
             Page:   2                 Language:   English
             Source Repository:   LOG	

                  During Paris'  first ecological demonstra-
             tion,  10,000 "partisans of pure air" bicycled
             down the  Champs Elysees on 23 April 1972 to pro-
             test air  pollution from automobiles and other
             forms of  urban discontent such as  noise and
             traffic jams.   Their demands included  creation
             of pedestrian streets, one million free bicycles
             for Parisians, development of free nonpolluting
             public transportation, and a halt  to creation of
             innercity expressways.
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No. SO-135

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                                 AIR
France      Article/Source Title:  "The EEC Pushes Pollution
              Curbs."  Business Week, No. 2231
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 3, 1972,
              Rightstown, N. J.
            Pages:  51-52           Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 The heavily-industrialized nations of the
            European Economic Community (EEC) are moving
            toward tighter antipollution controls.  The EEC
            hopes for approval by 1974 of proposals setting
            forth air and water pollution standards, common
            measuring and sampling methodology, uniform en-
            forcement procedures, and controls on dumping of
            wastes.  Currently, Italy has no water pollution
            control law, West German industry expenditures
            'for antipollution control equipment are on a par
            with those of U.S. industry, and France's newly
            formed Environment Ministry is fining companies
            caught polluting French waterways.
 Code	

 Control
 No. SO-136
Hungary     See AIR (Czechoslovakia) — Control No..SO-132
Code
Italy       Article/Source Title:  "Italy --An Environ-
              mental Disaster Area?" by John Navone.
              America, Vol. 126, No. 22
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 3, 1972,
              New York
            Pages:  592-594         Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 Concerned over Italy's image as Europe's
            most polluted country, a militant conservation
            group called Italia Nostra has taken its case to
            regional governments to demand environmental
            protection actions applicable to agriculture and
            forests, urban agglomerations, and locations of
            industry and recreation.  The group expects that
            regional authorities will cope with the pollu-
            tion problem more effectively than the central
            government.
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No. SO-137

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                                 AIR
Italy       Article/Source Title:  Facts on File. Vol. 32,     Code	
              No. 1645, 5-3
            Date/Place of Publication:  May 3,  1972,           Control
              New York                                         No. SO-138
            Page:  355B3            Language:   English
            Source Repository:   LOG	

                 An  Italian  industrialist, Alberto  Redaelli,
            was  arrested and jailed in Milan on May 3 after
            failing  to comply with an order to  install anti-
            pollution devices in his steel plant.
Italy       See AIR (France)  —  Control  No.  SO-136              Code_
Japan      Article/Source Title:   Facts  on File.   Vol.  32,     Code	
               No.  1648,  5-26
            Date/Place of Publication:  May 26,  1972,           Control
               New  York                                         No. 50-139
            Page:   413C              Language:   English
            Source Repository:   LOG	

                 A government white paper urged sweeping re-
            forms  to counter Japan's critical  pollution
            problem.  Some 6,376 persons  were  listed as
            victims of air pollution, and another 304 were
            suffering froai mercury or cadmium  poisoning from
            polluted waters.  Among the emergency measures,
            motor  vehicle traffic was restricted in Tokyo's
            inner  city to curb smog, and the Maritime Safety
            Agency hired 1,000 persons to monitor illegal
            discharge of oil and industrial wastes in
            Japanese waters.
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                                 AIR
Japan
Article/Source Title:   "Business  Leaders  Discuss
   Economic  Prospects and  Tasks  of New Year."
   Keidanren Review, No. 17.   KEIDANREN (Japan
   Federation of  Economic  Organizations)
Date/Place  of Publication:   Winter 1971,  Tokyo
Page:   7                Language:   English
Source  Repository:  LOG	

     Commenting  on pollution, the  President  of
Toyota  Motor Co. admitted that, at present tech-
nology  levels, antipollution standards for auto-
mobile  exhaust gas are difficult to achieve.   In
his view, environmental pollution  in  heavily in-
dustrialized areas would  be  reduced if Japan re-
vised her industrial map  to  eliminate regional
imbalances  by relocating  some industries  in
'relatively  isolated or undeveloped sectors.
Code	

Control
No. SO-140
Norway      See AIR (Denmark) — Control No. SO-134
Poland      See AIR (Czechoslovakia) -- Control No...50-132
                AD? (Denmark) — Control No. SO-133
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                                                    Code
Romania     See AIR (Czechoslovakia) — Control No. SO-132
                                                   Code
Sweden      Article/Source Title:  "Clean Heat:  A Modern
              System for an Entire City."  Sweden Now,
              Vol. 6, No. 3
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972, Stockholm
            Pages:  42-3            Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 The article briefly describes the central-
            ized heating system which provides hot water
            heating for 98% of the 120,000 residents of
            Vasteras, which boasts "Sweden's purest city
            air."  Elimination of individual household,
            apartment, and office furnaces offers other ad-
            vantages:  lower heating costs, no need to trans-
            port oil or coal in the streets, and use of sub-
            surface return water pipes to keep downtown
            streets snow-free in, winter.
                                                   Code	

                                                   Control
                                                   No. SO-141

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                                 AIR
Sweden      Article/Source Title:  Nucleonics Week, Vol.  11,  Code.	
              No. 27
            Date/Place of Publication:  July 9,  1970,         Control
              New York                                        No. SO-142
            Pages:  1               Language:  English
            Source Repo-sitory:   LOG	

                 Tliis newsletter briefly describes  one  of
            Sweden's most ambitious heating plans,  the  erec-
            tion of a nuclear heating station for the
            greater Stockholm area.   The plan reflects
            Sweden's progress in district heating and satis-
            factory experience with a nuclear reactor used
            to  supply heat to a  Stockholm suburb.   If ap-
            proved for operation by 1977, the planned
            nuclear station  will consolidate existing net-
            works, add new ones, and  eliminate air  pollution
            caused by small, private  heating plants.
 Sweden      See AIR (Denmark)  — Control Nos.  SO-133 and
               SO-134
                                                  Code
 USSR
Article/Source Title:  Ochistka vybrosnykh gazov  Code	
  (Purification of Waste Gases) by N. G. Vilesov
  and A. A. Kostyukovskaya                        Control
Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Kharkov         No. SO-143
Pages:  196
             Source Repository:   LOG
                                     Language:  Rus s ian.
                  The book describes means for various in-
             dustries to clean waste gases of sulphur an-
             hydride for utilization.  Attention is devoted
             to various methods of extracting SC>2 with a
             separate chapter on the physicochemical pro-
             cesses involved.  Schemes and apparata used for
             the various methods both in the USSR and other
             countries are discussed.

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                                 AIR
USSR        Article/Source Title:  Elektricheskaya            Code	
              izolyatsiya v rayonakh s zagryaznennoy atmos-
              feroy (Electrical Insulation in Areas with Air  Control
              Pollution) by V. F. Voskresenskiy               No. 50-144
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Moscow
            Pages:  78              Language:  Russian
            Source Repository:  EPA	

                 The characteristics and mechanism of pollu-
            tion are given as well as data on selected
            samples of polluted air and examples of insula-
            tors for polluted regions.  There are recommen-
            dations for selecting insulation according to
            the conditions of the atmosphere.

                 Particular attention is paid to conditions
          •  in metallurgical, machine, and metal-working in-
            dustries .
USSR        See AIR (Czechoslovakia) — Control No.  SO-132    Code
West        Article/Source Title:   "Companies'  Efforts to     Code	
Germany       Control Environment."  Europe § Oil,  Vol. 11,
              No. 1                                           Control
            Date/Place of Publication:   January 1972,  Munich  No.  SO-145
            Page:  30               Language:  English
            Source Repository:   LOG	

                 Various purification plants manufactured by
            a Frankfurt firm are described.  These  catalytic
            and thermal combustion plants  are used  to  purify
            toxic and odorous waste gases  and liquids  emit-
            ted in the fish meal,  plastics, and chemical in-
            dustries, and nuclear  power stations.

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                                 AIR
West        Article/Source Title:  "Do Cattle Eat Pollu-
Germany       tion?"  German International, Vol. 16, No. 6
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972, Bonn
            Pages:  34-35           Language'-  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 This article describes air pollution mea-
            surements undertaken near Freiburg involving the
            use of an X-ray spectrometer.  The device is
            used on cattle to determine the presence of lead
            and other foreign components ingested from graz-
            ing areas near heavily-traveled roadways.  The
            X-ray is also used  to  analyze  sample deposits
            and sedimentation from the air at a nearby moun-
            taintop station, headquarters  for the German Re-
            search Association's network of air pollution
            measurement  stations.
                                                  Code	

                                                  Control
                                                  No.  SO-146
West
Germany
See AIR (France) — Control No. SO-136
Code
                                NOISE
 Denmark     See AIR (Denmark)  -- Control  No.  SO-134
 France      See AIR (France)  --  Control No.  SO-135
 Norway      See AIR (Denmark)  -- Control No.  SO-134
 Sweden      See AIR (Denmark) -- Control No.  SO-134
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                               NOISE
USSR        Article/Source Title:  Shum preobrazovatel'nykh   Code	
              agregatov i metody bor'by s nini  (Conversion
              Noise and Methods of Combatting  It) by A. A.    Control
              Poskrobko, Yu. A. Fomin, and V. G. Chuvilin     No. SO-147
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Moscow
            Pages:  109             Language:  Russian
            Source Repository:  EPA	

                 The book contains data of noise level
            studies for ventilator and transformer equipment
            in conversion apparata.  Means for lessening
            noise at its immediate source are discussed, and
            a large section is devoted to methods of measur-
            ing noise level of electrical equipment.
USSR        Article/Source Title:  Bor'ba s shumom i          Code	
              zvukovoy vibratsiyey na sudakh (Combatting
              Noise and Sonic Vibration on Ships) by I. I.    Control
              Klyukin                                         No. SO-148
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971,  Leningrad
            Pages:  403             Language:   Russian
            Source Repository:  EPA	

                 Short notes are given on physical,  physio-
            logical, and constructive acoustics as well as
            measurement.  Contemporary means of sound- and
            vibration-proofing and absorption are described.
            In comparison with the first edition, this one
            has an expanded treatment of vibration and phys-
            ical acoustics.

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                          PESTICIDES
Italy
Article/Source Title:  "Pesticides -- A Problem   Code	
  for Present-day Society" by Bruno Versino.
  Euro Spectra.  Vol. 10, No. 1                   Control
Date/Place of Publication:  March 1971,           No. 50-149
  Brussels, Belgium
Pages:  2-10            Language:  English
Source Repository:   LOG	

     This article by a staff member of the
European Community's Joint Research Center  at
Ispra, Italy graphically traces the worldwide
propagation of pesticides, identifies those
found in man and the food chain, and indicates
acceptable daily intake levels.  He reviews
progress of international cooperation at  Euro-
pean levels in analytical methodology and
tolerance limits, and assesses future develop-
ments involving new  weapons in the war on in-
sects:  hormones, sex attractants, genetic
changes, sterilization, and integrated pest con-
trol methods.
                            RADIATION
 Denmark     Article/Source Title:   Danish Atomic Energy Com-  Code	
               mission,  1970-71:   15th Annual Report
             Date /Place  of Publication:  November 1971,         Control
               Copenhagen                                      No.  SO-150
             Pages:   58               Language:  English
             Source  Repository:  LOG	
                  The booklet is devoted mainly to the ac-
             tivities, international exchanges, services,  and
             facilities of the Research Establishment Riso,
             an atomic reactor installation near Copenhagen.
             Radiation surveillance is discussed briefly with
             selected staff publications on this and other
             research aspects listed in the appendix.  Danish
             and Swedish authorities participated in joint
             safety investigations at the atomic power re-
             actor station at Barseback, 12 miles from Copen-
             hagen on the south coast of Sweden.  Safety cri-
             teria for reactor installations are due in 1972
             from a Nordic Working Group on Reactor Safety
             (NARS), representing Denmark, Finland, Norway,
             and Sweden.
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                           RADIATION
Denmark     Article/Source Title:  "Productive, and Protec-
              tive Aspects of the Work of OECD's European
              Nuclear Energy Agency."  The OECD Observer,
              No. 57.  OECD (Organization for  Economic
              Cooperation and Development)
            Date/Place of Publication:  May 1972, Paris
            Pages:  9-13            Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 The first part of this article describes
            the significance of the 12-nation  OECD High
            Temperature Reactor Project "Dragon" in the UK.
            The second part discusses a Specialist Group's
            report on the problem of radioactive waste
            management.  The Group concludes that radio-
            active waste management practices  should be the
            subject of continuing cooperation at the Western
            European level.
 Code
 Control
 No.  SO-151
France      See RADIATION (Denmark)
Italy       See RADIATION (Denmark) —
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Code
Japan       Article/Source Title:  "World Digest:   Japan."
              Nuclear Engineering International, Vol. 17,
              No. 190
            Date/Place of Publication:  March 1972, London
            Page:  135              Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 Increasing concern expressed by the local
            population is making the siting of nuclear power
            stations throughout Japan more difficult.  In-
            creased local participation in radiation moni-
            toring is another indication of such concern.
            Construction permit applicants are now having to
            wait longer for plant safety analysis  by the
            Atomic Energy Commission.
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                           RADIATION
Norway      See RADIATION  (Denmark) -- Control Nos. SO-150    Code
              and SO-151
Sweden      Article/Source Title:   "Nuclear Power  Station     Code	
              Coolants Bigger Risk  than  Radiation."
              Byggnads Industrin, Vol. 42, No.  19             Control
            Date/Place of Publication:   June  2,  1972,         No. SO-155
              Stockholm
            Page:  67          Language: English  (normally
                                                     Swedish)
            Source Repository:   LOG	

                 Article  in this special English language
            issue, dedicated to  UN  environmental conference,
            stresses Swedish oceanographer's  view  that  the
            most serious  effect  nuclear  power plants can
            have upon the environment is that caused by
            large-scale discharges  of heated  coolants into
            adjacent waters.  He remains pessimistic about
            solving the problem  of  water temperature fluc-
            tuations and  warns of this threat to fish life.
            In  his estimation, stringent safety requirements,
            both international and  local, tend  to  minimize
            radiation risks from present and  planned nuclear
            power  facilities in  Sweden.


 Sweden     Article/Source Title:  Annual Report,  1970:      Code	
              National  Institute of Radiation Protection.
            Date/Place, of Publication:1971, Stockholm      Control
            Pages:   130             Language:  Swedish        No. SO-154
            Source Repository:   National Technical Informa-
               tion Service  (NTIS),  U.S.  Department of
               Commerce,  Springfield, Va.  22151	

                 An account  is  given of the National Insti-
             tute of Radiation Protection in  Sweden during
             1970,  including  statistical  data  in 27 tables
             with headings in English.
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                           RADIATION
Sweden      See RADIATION  (Denmark) — Control Nos. SO-150
              and SO-151
                                                   Code
West        Article/Source Title:  1970 Annual Report of the
Germany       Central Division of Radiation Protection.
              Ed. by M. Keller and R. Tzschaschel
            Date/Place of Publication:  September 1971,
              Juelich, Federal Republic of Germany
            Pages:  190             Language:  German
            Source Repository:  National Technical Informa-
              tion Service (NTIS), U.S. Department of
              Commerce, Springfield, Va.  22151	

                 Radiation protection programs for person-
            nel, installations, and the environment are the
          '  responsibility of the Central Division of Radia-
            tion Protection (Zentralabteilung Strahlen-
            schutz -- ZST)  of the Nuclear Research Estab-
            lishment, Juelich.  This report of the activi-
            ties and progress of the ZST during 1970 in-
            cludes a bibliography of its published and in-
            ternal literature for that year.
                                                   Code	

                                                   Control
                                                   No. SO-155
West
Germany
Article/Source Title:  "World Digest:  Germany
  F.R."  Nuclear Engineering International,
  Vol. 17, No. 189
Date/Place of Publication:  February 1972,
  London
Code	

Control
No. SO-156
            Page:  74
            Source Repository:
                    LOG
                        Language:  English
                 At the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center
            Dr.  Ing. M. Fischer heads a new research project,
            Project Nucleare Sicherheit (PNS),  responsible
            for all work on radiation protection and nuclear
            environmental effects.   In addition to research
            and analysis relating to the release,  transport,
            and deposition of fission products  in nuclear
            plants during normal operations and under acci-
            dent  conditions, the project will  also develop
            means of protection, isolation, and removal  of
            fission products.
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                           R.ADIATION
West        Article/Source Title:  "World Digest:  Germany."  Code	
Germany       Nuclear Engineering International. Vol 17,
              No. 190                                         Control
            Date/Place of Publication:  March 1972, London    No. SO-157
            Page:  135              Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	
                 The transportation and disposal of radio-
            active wastes from nuclear plants are new ser-
            vices offered jointly by two firms, NUKEM and
            Transnuclear.  One of their initial customers is
            the Gundemmingen  BWR  (Boiling Water Reactor)
            Station.
West
Germany
See RADIATION (Denmark) — Control No. SO-151
Code
                          SOLID   WASTE
Japan
Article/Source Title:  Pollution Control
  Equipment.  Zosen
Date/Place of Publication:  July 1972, Tokyo
Pages:  41-56           Language:  English
Source Repository:  LOC-FRD	

     This article in Zosen, a Japanese trade
publication, provides descriptions and operating
characteristics of various kinds of pollution
control equipment including waste oil burning
units, sewage treatment units, oily water sepa-
rators, spilled oil absorbents and pollution
detecting units.  Mention is made of the various
companies manufacturing these devices~
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                                                               Control
                                                               No.  SO-158
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                         SOI^ID  WASTE
Japan
Article/'Source Title:  "Outline of Regulations
  for Law Prohibiting Sea Contamination."  Zosen
Date/Place of Publication:  July 1972, Tokyo
Page:  40               Lcmguage:  English
Source Repository:  LOC-FRD	

     This article outlines the new Japanese reg-
ulations concerning maritime pollution control
which went into effect 25 June 1972.  The gist
of these new regulations touch upon the dis-
charge of oil from ships, the discharge of waste
from ships, and the discharge of oil and/or
waste from oceanic facilities.
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Control
No. SO-159
                               WATER
Denmark     See AIR (Denmark) -- Control No. SO-134
                WATER (Norway) — Control No. SO-164
                                                   Code
France      Article/Source Title:  "Preventing Deteriora-
              tion of the Coastal Environment."  The OECD
              Observer, No. 57
            Date/Place of Publication:  April 1972, Paris
            Pagei  38               Language:  English
            Soitrce Repository:  LOG	

                 A resume is given- of the scope of the CECD-
            sponsored- six-nation group- conducting a pilot
            study on the environment of the northern Medi-
            terranean seacoast.   National teams from France,
            Italy, Greece,. Spain, Turkey- and Yugoslavia,
            the sole non-OECD member, comprise the study
            group to examine development plans and environ-
            mental factors and devise a methodology to help
            decisionmakers make rational choices between
            them.
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                                                   Control
                                                   No.  SO-160
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                                WATER
France      Article/'Source Title:   "French Fisheries:  The
              Mediterranean."  World Fishing, Vol.  21, No.  5
            Date/Place of Publication:  May  1972,  London
            Page:  31               Language:   English
            Source Pepository:   LOG	
                 This  article  reviews poor  fishing potential
            of the Mediterranean,  citing pollution factor.
            The Mediterranean's  enclosed nature and  lack of
            water exchange with  the Atlantic  allows  build-up
            of pollutants.  Advancing technology and the in-
            crease of  coastal  population cause  excessive dis-
            charges  of sewage, pesticides,  chemical  ferti-
            lizers,  and leaks  and  spills from tankers and
            oil refineries.  Only  5 out of  14 Mediterranean
            oil ports  have facilities for off-loading oily-
            residues .
                                                   Code	

                                                   Control
                                                   No.  SO-161
France       See  AIR (France)  — Control No.  SO-136
                 WATER' (Norway)  — Control No.  SO-164
                                                   Code
 Italy
See AIR (France) — Control No. SO-136
    AIR (Italy) — Control Nos. SO-137 and
      SO-138
    WATER (France) -- Control No. SO-160
Code
 Japan
Article/Source Title:  "Mercury Pollution
  Ravages a Japanese Village:  Death Flows from
  a Pipe":by W. Eugene and Aileen Smith.
  Life, Vol. 72, No. 21
Date/Place of':Publication:  June 2, 1972, Chicago
Pages:  74-81           Language:  English
Source Repository:  LOG	

     Victims of mercury poisoning draw attention
to the tragedy of unrestrained pollution by one
of Japan's giant chemical firms, whose untreated
waste discharges killed 52 and adversely af-
fected 900 of the 3,500 inhabitants of the fish-
ing village of Minamata.
Code	

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No. SO-162
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                               WATER
Japan
See AIR (Japan) — Control No. SO-139
    SOLID WASTE (Japan) -- Control Nos. SO-158
      and SO-159
Code
Norway      Article/Source Title:  "New Boat to Fight Oil
              Pollution by Skuteng."  Norwegian American
              Commerce, No. 1
            Date/Place of Publication:  Spring 1972, Oslo
            Page:  24               Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 The article is a sales promotion for an
            Oslo firm's new boat used to skim off oil slick
            from waterways.  The 5-ton aluminum boat can
            pump oil directly from its skimmer into a barge
           • to expand its oil collection capacity.  The pro-
            totype of this boat was used successfully at a
            large oil spill at a Norwegian refinery in
            December 1971.
                                                   Code	

                                                   Control
                                                   No. SO-163
Norway      Article/Source Title:  "Pollution -- A Case for
              Community Action?"  World Fishing, Vol. 21,
              No. 5
            Date/Place of Publication:  May 1972, London
            Page:  35               Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 An account is given of the February 15,
            1972 signing in Oslo of a Convention for the
            Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from
            Ships and Aircraft.   Countries participating
            were Belgium, Denmark, France, and Federal Re-
            public of Germany, Finland, Iceland, the
            Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.
            It covers the high seas and territorial waters
            in the North Atlantic region, including the North
            Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean, the Mediterranean,
            Baltic; westward to  Greenland and southward to
            the latitude of Gibralter.  It prohibits dumping
            of mercury and cadmium and allows dumping of
            less toxic substances only after a permit is
            granted.
                                                   Code	

                                                   Control
                                                   No. SO-164
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                               WATER
Norway      See AIR  (Denmark) — Control No.  SO-134
                                                   Code
Sweden      Article/Source Title:   "Barriers Against  Oil
              Spills."  Sweden Now, Vol.  6, No.  3
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972,  Stockholm
            Page:  24               Language:  English
            Source Repository:   LOG	

                 A Swedish firm  has tested the effectiveness
            of pneumatic  barriers  to  arrest oil  spills under
            the  influences of wind, waves, and current.   A
            perforated plastic hose is  laid down on the sea
            floor and supplied with compressed air in order
            to generate a pneumatic barrier enclosing an  oil
            spill from tankers being  loaded or unloaded at
            an oil port.  The compressors operate  at  reduced
            capacity until a spill occurs.
                                                   Code	

                                                   Control
                                                   No.  SO-165
 Sweden      See AIR (Denmark) — Control No.  SO-134
                 RADIATION (Sweden) — Control No.  SO-153
                 WATER (Norway) — Control No. SO-164
                                                   Code
 USSR
Article/Source Title:  Ochistka stochnykh vod,
  soderzhashchikh sinteticheskiye poverkhnostno-
  aktivnyye veshchestva (Purification of Waste
  Water Containing Synthetic Surf ace-Active Sub-
  stances) by N. A. Lukinykh
Date/Place of Publication:  1972, Moscow
Pages:  94              Language:  Russian
Source Repository:  EPA	

     Investigations of and practical experience
with problems of civil and industrial waste
water are used to produce evaluations of biochem-
ical acidity of synthetic surface-active sub-
stances.  Concrete recommendations for purifica-
tion and treatment installations are given, in-
cluding filtration, absorption, ion exchange,
and fractionalization.
Code	

Control
No. SO-166
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                               WATER
USSR        Article/Source Title:  Sanitarnyye usloviya        Code	
              spuska stochnykh vod y vodoyemy (Sanitary
              Conditions for Releasing Waste Water into        Control
              Reservoirs) by S. N. Cherkinskiy                 No. SO-167
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Moscow
            Pages:  208             Language:  Russian
            Source Repository:  EPA	

                 The book presents the basis for sanitary
            protection of reservoirs and peculiarities of
            Soviet hydrosanitary legislation.  The need for
            releasing sewage and industrial waste into
            reservoirs is discussed as well as conditions
            under which such could be done without danger to
            health.  Some attention is paid to quantitative
            and qualitative characteristics of waste water.
USSR        Article/Source Title:  Predotvrashcheniye          Code	
              zagryazneniya morya neft'yu (Prevention of Oil
              Pollution in Oceans) by S.  M.  Nunuparov          Control
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971,  Moscow           No.  SO-168
            Pages:  164             Language:   Russian
            Source Repository:   EPA	

                 The book discusses reasons  for ocean pollu-
            tion as a result of transport operations and
            ways to decrease the harmful  effects of this pol-
            lution on nature and man.   A  survey is given of
            basic international and USSR  legislation for
            prevention of oil pollution.

                 Practical methods applied in  the USSR for
            decreasing the probability of accidental spill-
            age of oil and for  prohibiting the dumping of
            oil-polluted water  into the ocean  are presented.
            There are descriptions of the most effective ar-
            rangements and devices for localizing oil
            spills, their removal, constructions for unload-
            ing tankers, and purification.
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                                 WATER
USSR        Article/Source Title:  Ochistka i ispol*zovanie    Code	
              stochnykh vod predpriyatiy tsvetnoy metal lurgii
              (Purification and Use of Waste Water  from Non-   Control
              Ferrous Metallurgy) by L. V. Milovanov           No. SO-169
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Moscow
            Pages:  379             Language:  Russian
            Source Repository:  EPA	

                 The origin and physicochemical makeup of
            waste water from ores, concentration plants, and
            hydro- and pyro-metallurgical plants for non-
            ferrous metals are described.  The discarding  of
            waste water into reservoirs and its effects are
            discussed.  Technological means for decreasing
            the  quantity of waste water and pollution level,
            as well as physicochemical methods and  typical
            schemes for purification are also presented.

                 The pollutants considered are acides, cya-
            nides, fluorides, arsenic, oil products, phenols,
            phosphates, sulphides, and others.


 West       See  AIR  (Frame)  -- Control No. SO-136             Code	
 Germany          AIR  (West  Germany) -- Control No. SO-145
                 WATER  (Norway)  -- Control No. SO-164
                              GENERAL

 Japan       Article/Source Title:   "Investment Against Pol-    Code	
               lution" by Ago Keichi.  The East, Vol.  8,
               No. 6                                            Control
             Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972,  Tokyo       No.  SO-170
             Pages:  14-16           Language:  English
             Source Repository:  LOG	

                  The author analyzes the Japanese industri-
             alists' switch from passive to-positive attitudes
             toward environmental protection measures, citing
             the nearly six-fold increase in their antipollu-
             tion investments in recent years.  The major pol-
             luters' assumption of greater responsibility is
             reflected in the trend to gain advance consent
             from the local populace near projected factory
             sites.

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                             GENERAL
Japan
Article/'Source Title:  "If Pollution Seems Bad     Code	
  in U.S."   U.S. News and World Report, Vol. 72,
  No. 22                                           Control
Date/Place of Publication:  May 29, 1972,          No. SO-171
  Washington, D.C.
Pages:  84-85           Language:  English
Source Repository:  LOG	

     A grim account is presented of health
hazards and environmental destruction generated
by Japan's postwar economic expansion.  In the
face of mounting public criticism of govern-
ment's laxity and industrialists' indifference,
Japan reaches what a top official terms "the
elementary-school stage in pollution control."
Sweden      Article/Source Title:
              Ploy at Stockholm."
                       "Sweden:  The Business
                       Business Week, No. 2233
                            June 17, 1972,
Code
            Date/Place of Publication:
              Hightstown, N.J.
            Pages:  48, 50          Language:  English
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 Swedish industrial firms,  particularly
            those producing antipollution equipment,  sub-
            jected visiting foreign delegations to the UN
            Conference on the Human Environment to a  heavy
            promotional campaign pointing up the corporate
            environmental concern.   At least 30 Swedish com-
            panies conducted tours  of their plants for
            groups of delegates and journalists.
Control
No. SO-172
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                               GENERAL
Sweden      Article/Source Title:  "A Country in the Plan-     Code	
              ning" by Ruth Link.  Sweden Now, Vol. 6, No. 3
            Date/Place of Publication:  June 1972, Stockholm   Control
            Pages:  28-35           Language:  English         No. SO-173
            Source Repository:  LOG	

                 The scope of the Ministry of Physical Plan-
            ning 's survey report on the Management of Land
            and Water Resources is outlined.  The article
            also publicizes the Ministry's invitation to
            municipalities, organizations, experts, and
            ordinary citizens to examine the report's pro-
            posals .and present their comments and suggestions
            on the question:  "How do you think we should use
            Sweden?"
 USSR       Article/Source  Title:   Okhrana prirody  (Protec-    Code	
               tion of Nature).   Comp.  by V.  I.  Pelevin
            Date/Place of Publication:  1971, Moscow          Control
            Pages:  116             Language:   Russian        No. 50-174
            Source Repository:   EPA	

                  The book contains 12 articles  on protection
            of plants, animals,  and land in  various regions
            of the USSR,  fire prevention, regional  planning,
            and groups active in conservation.
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