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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FORWARD
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:
APTIC
SWIRS
PIC
NOISE
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.
Code
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.
Code
Control
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.
Code
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.
Code
Control
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.
Code
Control
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
Code_
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) —
Code_
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.
Code
Control
No.
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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~
Code
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.
Code
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.
Code
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
Control
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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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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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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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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