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US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY -WASHINGTON, DC 20460 • FEBRUARY 1973
$44-Million EPA Budget Rise Sought
A $44-million increase in the En-
vironmental Protection Agency's
operating budget for fiscal 1974
was proposed to Congress by Presi-
dent Nixon on Jan. 29.
This would raise the 1974 total
to $515 million, compared to $471
million for the current fiscal year,
which ends June 30.
Six programs and supporting op-
erations would get increases total-
ling $74 million, and two programs
would be cut $30, for an overall
net increase of $44 million.
The increases would include:
water quality, $51 million; pesti-
cides, $5 million; noise abatement,
$1.6 million; program management
and support, $10 million; Agency
and regional management, $6 mil-
lion; and intermedia activities, $.7
million.
The solid waste management pro-
gram would be cut more than 80
percent, from $30 to $5.7 million,
and air pollution control trimmed
4 percent, from $152.5 million to
$146.4 million.
The drastic cut in the solid waste
funds reflects the administration's
decision that this is "really a local
problem," Administrator William
Ruckclshaus told a press conference
two days before the President's
budget message was released.
The Administration intends, he
said, to "reorient" Federal work in
solid waste toward a "regulatory ac-
tivity dealing with the safe disposal
of toxic and hazardous wastes."
Legislation for this purpose would
be submitted soon.
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Hale Issues Statement
Despite the budget cut, "we are
not zeroing out EPA's solid waste
programs," said Samuel Hale Jr,
deputy assistant administrator and
program chief, in a statement made
after the budget was announced.
"Even though we will be redi-
recting our efforts toward industrial
and hazardous wastes," he said,
"many important activities fully
funded under the 1973 budget must
continue to receive a high level of
attention and effort. These include
major technical assistance projects,
existing demonstration programs,
on-going studies to create the sound
data base required by the Resource
Recovery Act, the Mission 5,000
dump-closing program, and techni-
cal and public information activi-
ties.
"Moreover, the bill to replace
legislation which expires July 1 is
still being debated within the admin-
istration. The proposed budget rep-
resents how much we think can
be accomplished in 1974, consider-
ing the many activities budgeted in
1973 which will carry over into
1974."
Air Cut Laid to Progress
The $6-milIion cut in the air pro-
gram, Ruckelshaus said, reflects
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Current Year and Fiscal '74 Proposed, by Program and Function
Agency and
Regional
Management
1973 1974
Air
Water Quality ._
Water Supply
Solid Wastes .
Pesticides . . . .
Radiation . .
Noise ... ._
Intermedia .
Program Mgt &
Support .
Agency and Re-
gional Mgt. .$46,184 $50,800
Scientific Activi-
ties Overseas __.__ . . .
(dollars in thousands)
Research and
Development
1973
$67,382
48,114
2,266
17,071
5,252
2,287
281
13,768
1974
$57,097
46,723
2,304
2,200
5,441
2,471
550
14,472
Abatement and
Control
1973
$80,807
70,262
2,015
12,942
14,112
4,848
2,135
538
1974
$79,735
121,677
2,052
3,560
17,224
4,651
3,487
547
Enforcement
1973 1974
$4,301 $9,528
20,867 23,956
Scientific
Activities
Overseas Totals
1973 1974 1973 1974
1,626 2,808 ._,
$152,490
139,243
4,281
30,013
20,990
7,135
2,416
14,306
$146,360
192,356
4,356
5,760
25,473
7,122
4,037
15,019
16,724 17,442 24,376 31,167 8,780 11,108
_ 49,880 59,717
_ 46,184 50,800
$4,000 $4,000 4,000 4,000
Totals . 46,184 50,800 173,145 148,700 212,035 264,100 35.574 47.400 4,000 4.000 470.938 515,000
N.B. This table does not include construction grants for water quality activities.
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EPA Sharing New Lab With Texas
EPA and the State of Texas are
sharing in the operation of a new
laboratory for environmental testing
in Houston.
Jointly staffed by scientists and
technicians from EPA's Region VI,
Dallas, and from Texas air and
water pollution control agencies, the
facility has about $750,000 worth of
scientific equipment for making
chemical and biological tests of air,
water, and soil samples.
It was formally dedicated last
month at a meeting attended by
some 150 local, State, and Federal
officials. Because the laboratory
proper did not have room, the cere-
mony was held in a nearby hall
borrowed for the occasion.
Administrator William Ruckel-
shaus said the Houston laboratory
would help give the five-state region
"the kind of technical backup and
information we need in order to act
wisely" in enforcing environmental
protection laws.
Acknowledging that there is some-
times friction between States and the
Federal Government in these mat-
ters, Ruckelshaus said the new
laboratory was a good example of
the cooperation that sometimes goes
unnoticed.
Opened in August
The laboratory has actually been
operating since August, with much
of its work involving checking indus-
trial waste discharges into the Hous-
ton Ship Canal and Gatveston Bay.
Arthur W. Busch, regional EPA
administrator and former professor
at Rice University, presided at the
dedication and introduced the guests,
including Reps. William Archer and
Robert Casey, Houston Mayor
Louis Welch, Chairman Gordon
Fulcher of the Texas Water Quality
Board, and Chairman Herbert C.
McKee of the Texas Air Control
Board.
Ruckelshaus said the United
States is making "significant prog-
ress" in controlling pollution, al-
though the changes are not yet
readily apparent to the average
citizen.
Chemist at Region VI's new laboratory facility at Houston operates an
atomic absorption spectrophotometer for measuring minute amounts of
metals in water. Photo was taken by Malcolm Kallas, facility manager.
Speakers, Films to Alternate
In Washington Noontime Series
A series of lunch-hour films and
talks for EPA headquarters employ-
ees has been scheduled every Wed-
nesday at 12:15 p.m. in the new
Visitors' Center on the ground floor
of Waterside Mall's West Tower in
Southwest Washington.
Ellen Dayton and Diane Pirkey,
who are arranging the series for the
Office of Public Affairs, said short,
informal speeches by EPA officials
on various aspects of the Agency's
work would alternate with films of
"But in a relatively short time-
by that I mean three or four years
—the man in the street will be able
to see cleaner air and cleaner water,''
Ruckelshaus declared.
In a decade the Nation's major
pollution problems may be under
control, he said, and then "we may
be asking ourselves what all the fuss
was about."
general interest: documentaries,
travelogues, and a variety of educa-
tional films.
"We are not planning to show en-
vironmental films," said Ms. Dayton.
"That would be too much. We hope
to encourage employees to meet
each other and get acquainted as
well as to learn more about EPA's
programs."
Administrator William Ruckel-
shaus was scheduled to lead off the
series on Feb. 14.
A film (still unchosen at press
time) will be shown on Feb. 21. Dr.
Alvin Meyer, director of the Noise
Abatement office, will speak on
Feb. 28.
The Visitors' Center occupies
most of the West Tower's ground
floor. Color photographs from
EPA's Documcrica project are on
display, together with a variety of
Agency literature and environmental
posters.
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S44-MILLION RISE
IN EPA BUDGET
SOUGHT FOR '74
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technical progress in pollution con-
trol. The "first generation" tech-
nology for curbing emissions, pri-
marily from industry, has been de-
veloped and demonstrated. It is
now up to the private sector to put
into practice.
EPA is continuing its work on
"second generation," improved tech-
nology, including fuel cleaning tech-
niques, he said, but this will not
involve expensive, large-scale dem-
onstration projects in fiscal '74.
When the Agency's proposed
budget is broken down by func-
tion, rather than program category,
similar internal shifts in emphasis
can be seen Research and devel-
opment would be reduced by $24.4
million, but there would be substan-
tial increases in other functions:
abatement and control $52.1 mil-
lion, enforcement $12 million, and
Agency and regional management
$4 million.
Ruckelshaus said the budget in-
creases would help the Agency carry
out the requirements of laws passed
by the last Congress in four environ-
mental areas: water pollution, pesti-
cides, noise, and protection of ma-
rine and cstuarmc waters.
Sewer Aid Separate
The operating budget does not
include construction grants for water
quality activities primarily to assist
local governments in the building
of sewage treatment plants Be-
cause of the long lead time for such
construction, the authorization, obli-
gation, and outlay of the funds
may span several years.
A recent release of $5 billion of
1973 and 1974 contract authority
for waste treatment plant construc-
tion will supplement $1.9 billion in
1973 appropriated funds. This
makes a total of $6.9 billion in con-
struction grant money available in
the 1973 and 1974 fiscal years.
Increases in EPA manpower are
EPA Manpower Budget, 1972 to 1974
(Fulltime Permanent Positions)
Research and Development
Abatement and Control
Enforcement .. _.___ _. _
Agency and Regional Management..
Operations, Research, and Facilities 7,815
Revolving Fund * ._ ..
Allocation Account"
1972
Actual
7,815
12
8
1973
Estimate
1,943
3,573
1,481
1,795
51
15
1974
Estimate
1,899
3,724
1,686
1,835
51
8
Change
1973 to 1974
44
+ 151
+205
+40
.....
Total
. . . 7,835
8,858
9,203
345
* positions supported by fees
** positions supported by other agencies
Transfer of 130 Jobs Approved
From Corps of Engineers to EPA
The transfer of 130 positions
from the Army Corps of Engineers
to EPA has been approved by the
Office of Management and Budget.
The transfers are to be made be-
fore June 30 and are not part of the
345 new positions approved by the
White House and proposed in the
Administration's budget request for
fiscal 1974.
EPA had requested the job shifts
to fulfill its obligation to enforce
the new Permit Program required
by the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act Amendments of 1972.
All of the COE employees who
transfer arc expected to be assigned
to Permit Program activities in re-
gional offices, under the Office of
Enforcement and General Counsel.
Most of them will be assigned in or
near where they arc now working
for the Army.
also planned in the 1974 budget:
345 new positions in addition ro
358 positions recently approved by
the President's Office of Manage-
ment and Budget. The additional
staff will include some 130 posi-
tions to be transferred from the
Army Corps of Engineers to help
EPA carry out its mandated duties
in enforcing water pollution control
regulations.
EPA's total roster of fulltime,
permanent positions is planned to
reach 9,203 in fiscal 1974, an in-
crease of 345 over the estimated
total at the end of this fiscal year
on June 30.
These new positions are in addi-
tion to an expansion of 358 posi-
tions approved recently by OMB,
Administrator Ruckelshaus revealed
at a pre-budget press conference
Jan. 27.
The Agency's manpower budget
for the next fiscal year (see adjoin-
ing table) envisions 205 more posts
in the enforcement function, 149
more in abatement and control,
and 40 more in Agency and regional
management. But there will be 44
fewer fulltime posts in the research
and monitoring function.
Correction
A story on "Project Safeguard"
in last month's Inside EPA, mis-
takenly said the Agency's laboratory
at Chamblee, Ga., was responsible
for telling the medical profession
how to deal with accidental poison-
ing by the new, degradable but dan-
gerous pesticides.
Dr. Bill L. Stevenson says this
work is being done by Pesticide
Programs' Operations Division at
Chamblee, not by the Toxicology
Laboratory there.
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PUERTO RICO'S
SOLID WASTE
PLAN APPROVED
A comprehensive solid waste
management plan for Puerto Rico
was approved last month by EPA
Administrator William Ruckelshaus
and is slated for early formal adop-
tion by the Commonwealth's Envir-
onmental Quality Board.
In a letter to Gov. Rafael Hernan-
dez Colon, Mr. Ruckelshaus urged
that the plan be adopted and carried
out as soon as possible. The Ruckel-
shaus letter was delivered in person
to Gov. Hernandez by Region II
Administrator Gerald M. Hansler
on a business visit to San Juan.
Puerto Rico's new plan, devel-
oped with the aid of a $56,000
planning grant from EPA, calls for
new legislation that would give the
Commonwealth full responsibility
for solid waste disposal throughout
the island.
No More Dumps
Municipalities would still be re-
sponsible for collecting the waste,
but the old town dumps would be
progressively phased out and all
waste deposited at regional sites ad-
ministered by the Environmental
Quality Board and employing mod-
ern methods of sanitary landfilling.
The plan was worked out by the
Board, whose executive director is
Cruz Mates.
Open burning of solid wastes
would be prohibited, except in emer-
gencies when the public health might
otherwise be endangered.
Some 1.8 million tons of solid
waste is produced each year in Puer-
to Rico, and the plan projects an
increase to 2.7 million tons per year
by 1980.
Only eight of the island's 77 mu-
nicipalities now handle their solid
waste in an acceptable manner, the
study said. Refuse from the other
69 municipalities is burned in 62
open dumps that pollute the air and
furnish breeding grounds for rodents
and flies.
The regional landfill sites would
—photos by Tom Warren
EPA secretary Bobbie DeWeese gets instructions from teammate Mike
Crouse, left, before mixing it up in first game with Corvallis city league.
Bobbie Works Mighty Hard
In Corvallis Basketball League
When Bobbie DeWeese, 24-year-
old secretary in the NERC-Corvallis
Office of Public Affairs, wanted
some exercise she joined a basket-
ball team.
Nothing unusual about that, ex-
cept that it's a men's team.
Bobbie is the first woman to play
in the Corvallis city basketball
league.
"I expected to get some resent-
ment," she said after a practice
session with the Water Lab team,
made up of NERC workers. "I was
surprised when they accepted me."
Her first league game last month
was a surprise to the opposing team.
Bobbie checked in at the scorer's
table at the start of the second quar-
ter, and the other team members
be covered with earth after each
day's deposit. They would be de-
signed, wherever possible, for even-
tual use as open space or park land.
protested.
But she had a note from the city
parks and recreation department
saying she was eligible. The depart-
ment has no rules against women
playing in the league, probably be-
cause the question had never been
raised.
She played about four minutes in
the second quarter and all of the
fourth, and got no display of chival-
ry from the opposing team, which
beat the Water Lab 87-40.
"Don't let her score," yelled one
of the opposing squad from the
bench. Bobbie, who is 5'1" tall, got
only two scoring chances in that
game and missed both. "I was hop-
ing I'd get fouled," she said after-
ward. "I can make a free throw."
Bobbie has played in half a dozen
games since her inauspicious start,
and she plans to finish the season.
Her father, who used to play basket-
ball too, approves.
"She may get a black eye, but that
won't hurt her," he said.
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U.S.-Soviet Exchanges Scheduled
A team of environmental scien-
tists from the Soviet Union is sched-
uled to come to the United States
late this month for a 10-day study-
visit, and two teams of EPA people
arc going to the U.S.S.R. in March.
The visits are the first of a series
of exchanges and joint symposiums
that are planned throughout the next
five years, in which the two nations
will cooperate in 30 specific areas of
environmental research and tech-
nology.
The Soviet team of eight air pol-
lution officials and technical people
is due in Washington Feb. 27 to
launch a joint study of air pollution
modeling and instrumentation.
Most of their time on this first
visit will be spent in Washington,
conferring with top Agency officials
and people from the Office of Re-
search and Monitoring. Dr. Herbert
L. Wiser, head of ORM's Processes
and Effects Division, is arranging
the meetings in the Capital with
technical experts from various EPA
laboratories and program offices.
Personnel from the Council on En-
vironmental Quality, the State and
Commerce Departments, and other
Federal agencies will also take part
in these sessions.
Field Visits Set
The delegation will make two
field visits: Friday, Mar. 2, to St.
Louis, Mo., to inspect the work in
modeling a metropolitan airshed
there, and Monday, Mar. 5, to Re-
search Triangle Park, N.C , at the
central laboratory for EPA's air
pollution research.
The first cast-bound exchange
will be a two-week visit starting
March 11 for an eight-man Amer-
ican team on techniques of air pol-
lution control in industry. The team
will visit Moscow, Leningrad, and
four smaller cities where control
projects are under way for cleaning
stack gases and desulfurizing fuels
EPA team members include R. E.
Harrington, K. H. Jones, Eric Stork,
and J. K. Burchard. Two former
EPA men, now consultants, will also
make the trip: J. H. Ludwig and
P. W. Spaite, plus representatives
from the Department of Transporta-
tation and the Tennessee Valley
Authority.
Later in March at a date still to
be set, a water pollution team led
by Dr. John L. Buckley, ORM, will
visit the Soviet Union. Buckley
said the team will include Donald
Mount and Arnold Joseph, ORM;
Ralph Palange and Mark Pisano,
Water Programs Office; Dr. Peter
Doudoroff of Oregon State Uni-
versity, an EPA consultant who
speaks fluent Russian; and a repre-
sentative from the Council on En-
vironmental Quality.
The groundwork for the coopera-
tive program was laid last May in
in Moscow when President Nixon
and US.SR. President Nikolai V.
Podgorny signed a formal agreement
for the two nations to work together
in 11 environmental problem areas,
ranging from pollution control and
urban planning to weather research,
earthquake prediction, and arctic
ecology.
METRIC UNITS
NEEDED IN ALL
EPA REPORTS
EPA has officially endorsed
the metric system of measure-
ments.
Metric units should be used in
all Agency standards, reports,
and other documents, according
to an "all-hands" memorandum
issued Jan. 18 by Deputy Admin-
istrator Robert Fri.
The action was taken, Fri said,
to bring EPA in line with the
dominant international system of
weights and measures in the ex-
pectation that the metric system
would be adopted, sooner or la-
ter, by the United States, one of
the few developed countries still
using more cumbersome systems.
Wherever it seems desirable,
the memorandum said, equivalent
units in the British system (feet,
acres, pounds, etc.) may be given
in parentheses beside the metric
units in the text of any document.
Typists Learn Keyboard Plus
Pupils in Mrs. Barbara Gciger's
typewriting classes are learning
about the environment while they
practice typing.
Her students at Old Mission
Junior High School, Shawnec
Mission, Kan., would benefit,
Mrs. Gcigcr reasoned, if they had
something better than typical
business letters to practice on,
something relevant and interest-
ing.
So she called EPA's Region
VII headquarters in Kasas City.
Could you help me, she asked,
with copies of letters, pamphlets,
or other material dealing with en-
vironmental problems? She said
she hoped timely, informative
material on a subject of wide-
spread interest would liven her
pupils' typing drills and, who
knows, perhaps some of the in-
formation would seep in.
Last month Mrs. Geigcr visited
the EPA office to pick up the
material that Mrs. Eloise Reed of
the regional public affairs office
had gathered for her.
Mrs. Reed's package included
a variety of letters actually sent
out to answer public inquiries:
letters explaining the pesticide
laws, the new Federal water pol-
lution act amendments, and other
up-to-date environmental matters.
Mrs Geigcr also took back to
Shawnce Mission a lot of EPA
publications for use in her
school's "Project Clean," an en-
vironmental study and action
program.
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A Child's-Eye View of Inner City
By Frank Corrado
Public Affairs Director,
Region V, Chicago
Home safe, out of harm's way,
kids on the street yell "Allie Allie
in Free."
This street game provides the
title and opening sequence for an
unusual environmental film.
"Allie Allie in Free" was shot in
Cleveland last summer by Dr. Es-
telle Zanes, communications pro-
fessor at Cleveland State University
and an acute observer of inner city
problems there. She did the film in
conjunction with a local citizens
group, the Area Councils' Associa-
tion.
ACA is an old-time coordinating
group for 19 neighborhood commu-
nity groups in inner-city Cleveland.
It has long been a spokesman for
improving local conditions for both
blacks and whites and has been con-
cerned with inner-city environmental
problems like air pollution, conges-
tion and solid waste.
Under a $2,500 grant from EPA's
Public Affairs Office, ACA and Dr.
Zanes put the documentary to-
gether and secured one-half hour
of television time in mid-December
for airing the documentary. The
documentary played in prime-time,
and its unique point of view—the
citizen's view of his community—
was succinctly stated in the station's
advertising before the broadcast:
"The People of Cleveland Proudly
Present—the People of Cleveland."
The documentary was really a
bination of community concern,
professional commitment and tele-
vision public-mindedness.
"Allie Allie in Free" looked at
the city as a "house" through the
eyes of young children, with their
comments, drawings, games and
perceptions of crime, housing, en-
vironment and other issues. It was
a unique attempt to show the inter-
relatedness of these issues and the
need for a place to live that is "safe"
and "out of harm's way." The docu-
mentary will soon be converted into
a movie version, and there are some
W PiQPlE Of CLEVELAND PROUDLY PRESEN
THE PEOPLE OF CLEVELAND
Dr. Estelle Zanes of Cleveland S ale University directed television film on
the inner city environment as seen through the eyes of young children.
New Rules for Training Grants
New regulations for EPA training
grants and fellowships were pro-
posed last month and printed in the
Federal Register for Jan. 29, page
2705.
They will not be formally adopted
until some time after a 30-day wak-
ing period for public comments.
The proposal would unify the
policies and procedures that have
heretofore followed guidelines estab-
lished by the Department of the
Interior and the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare for
predecessor agencies of EPA.
Main points of the proposed new
regulations arc:
• Financial assistance to students
is generally limited to tuition and
fees.
indications it will be shown again.
Rev. Earl Cunningham, president
of ACA, said, "When television, the
university, the citizen, the city and
the Federal government are able to
cooperate on a project like this, the
word we use is not success, but
rather hope—hope for this city."
• Special stipends are established
to provide additional financial as-
sistance where needed to attract
students to specific environmental
control programs.
• A pilot fellowship program is
provided to enhance the attractive-
ness of State and local employment
in environmental control jobs.
Public comments on the proposed
regulations should be submitted in
writing before Feb. 28 to the Direc-
tor of Grants Administration, EPA,
Washington, D.C. 20460.
Inside EPA, published month-
ly for all employees of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agen-
cy, welcomes contributed articles,
photos, and letters of general
interest.
Such contributions will be
printed and credited, but they
may be edited to fit space limits.
Van V. Trumbull, editor
Office of Public Affairs
Room W239, EPA
Washington, D.C. 20460
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CITY HALL LOSES
EPA CHECK FOR
$1.3 MILLION
More than a year ago the City
of Atlanta mislaid a Federal
check for $1,309,200, represent-
ing an EPA contribution to help
pay for a waste water treatment
plant.
The loss was not discovered
until a routine audit by EPA in
December revealed that the check
had not been cashed.
Regional Administrator Jack
E. Ravan promptly issued a stop-
payment order on the check, and
wrote Atlanta Mayor Sam Mas-
sell asking what had happened.
At first city officials refused to
believe the check had ever been
sent. But Ravan pointed out that
it had been delivered by certified
mail and signed for on Jan. 10,
1972, by a secretary in Mayor
MasselFs office.
City hall files were combed to
locate the missing piece of paper.
No dice. The check was really
lost.
Now city officials have filled
out the Treasury documents
needed to prove the loss and per-
mit the Federal authorities to re-
issue the check.
In his letter to Masscll, Ravan
said: "We hope that a better
method of control has been insti-
tuted by the city so that Federal
dollars can be recorded, de-
posited, and expended in a timely
manner "
Ruckelshaus Defends Nixon
On Water Fund Allocations
Correction
The November story on the use
of abandoned strip mines for sani-
tary landfill sites, Leonard Lion,
EPA project engineer for the Frost-
burg, Md. demonstration program,
was mistakenly identified as work-
ing for the National Environmental
Research Center in Cincinnati. Lion
is with the Office of Solid Waste
Management Programs in that city.
President Nixon's power to limit
Federal aid allocations for water
pollution control to less than that
authorized by Congress for fiscal
1973 and 1974 was vigorously de-
fended by EPA Administrator Wil-
liam D. Ruckelshaus.
The law, which was passed Oct.
18 over the President's veto, allows
the Executive Branch "discretion"
in fund allocations, Ruckelshaus
testified at a hearing Feb. 6 of a
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee.
Ruckelshaus told the subcommit-
tee that, on the President's instruc-
tions, he had allocated to the States,
for construction of municipal waste
treatment facilities, $2 billion for
fiscal 1973 and $3 billion for fiscal
1974. The Act authorized $5 billion
and $6 billion, respectively, for
those years.
The executive discretion is im-
plicit in the wording of the law and
was several times cited in floor de-
bates and committee reports, Ruc-
kelshaus said.
He quoted Rep. George Mahon
(D-Texas), chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, on the
House floor last March:
"Some seem to think that con-
tract authority will guarantee full
funding of the authorization. Of
course, nobody is so naive as to
think you can bypass the President
or the Executive Branch. The Pres-
ident is the top official—and he
would permit or not permit full-
scale application of the contract au-
thority—or appropriations, for that
matter."
Ruckelshaus also quoted Rep.
William Harsha (R-Ohio), ranking
minority member of the House Pub-
lic Works Committee, discussing on
Oct. 4 certain revisions made on the
bill in conference. These wording
changes, Harsha said, were "intend-
ed by the managers of the bill to
emphasize the President's flexibility
to control the rate of spending. . . .
The Committee recognizes that there
are many competing national priori-
ties. That is the very reason the
Committee has placed in this legis-
lation the flexibility that is needed
for the Executive Branch."
The Administration's commitment
to the cause of environmental pro-
tection is "abundantly clear," Ruc-
kelshaus told the hearing. "The de-
cision to allocate less than the maxi-
mum funding under the 'water' Act
is not a departure from or a con-
tradiction of that commitment.
"If fiscal responsibility is to be
achieved, as the President has re-
solved it will be, hard decisions to
fund Federal programs at less than
their maximums may be necessary.
. . . The responsibility was placed
on the President's shoulders by the
legislation itself.
"It is a difficult and complex
responsibility and it has been carried
out in the full context of a com-
prehensive and long-range policy
direction toward the health and
prosperity of the Nation."
Jean Heads Effort
To Train and Hire
Spanish-Americans
Paul R Jean has been named to
coordinate the Agency's efforts to
help Spanish-speaking Americans
obtain training and employment in
environmental work.
Jean's appointment was an-
nounced last month by Carol M.
Thomas, director of EPA's Office
of Civil.Rights and Urban Affairs.
Before coming to EPA last year,
Jean had been a social worker and
job counselor in Chile. A graduate
of the University of Montreal and
holder of a master's degree in edu-
cation from New York State Uni-
versity, Jean has studied the Spanish
language and Spanish-American his-
tory in Bolivia and Mexico.
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Holding Providence Journal's certificate and EPA flag are, from left, Rob-
ert Frederiksen, reporter; John McGlennon, EPA regional director; Mi-
chael Metcalf, vice president; and Leighton Authier, promotion director.
Region I Honors Newspaper
TUDOR DAVIES
NEW DIRECTOR
AT GROSSE ILE
Dr. Tudor T. Davies is the new
director of the Grosse He, Mich.,
Laboratory, one of the nine EPA
laboratories associated with the Na-
tional Environmental Research Cen-
ter in Corvallis, Ore.
He succeeds Dr. Norbert Jawor-
ski, who was transferred last fall to
Corvallis to head the Pacific North-
west Water Laboratory.
The Grosse He Laboratory, on
the Detroit River just south of De-
troit, concentrates on research and
development work related to the
Great Lakes, including research on
the effects of industrial waste dis-
charges and dredging.
In his new post, Dr. Davies will
represent EPA on an interdiscipli-
nary study of the pollution problems
of Lake Ontario that is being con-
ducted by the United States and
Canada as part of the Great Lakes
International Field Year.
Dr. Davies formerly was on the
special projects staff of EPA's Office
of Research and Monitoring in
A certificate of Meritorious
Achievement and an EPA flag were
presented Jan. 26 to the Providence
Journal by Region I Administrator
John A. S. McGlennon.
The morning paper of 65,000
circulation was cited for its "excel-
lent coverage" of environmental
news in general and for its sponsor-
ship of a massive cleanup campaign
of the Blackstone River last fall,
McGlennon said.
The newspaper organized and vig-
orously promoted a concerted drive
to clean trash of all kinds that had
accumulated along a 12-mile stretch
of the Blackstone, which winds
through the city of Providence be-
fore emptying into Narragansett
Bay.
The award was the first to be
given to a communications medium
in Region I, McGlennon said. Meri-
torious achievement certificates had
previously been presented to the
U.S. Army at Fort Devens, Mass.,
and to the Nashua River Watershed
Association.
Washington. He was born in Great
Britain and received his bachelor's
and doctor's degrees in geochemistry
from the University of Wales.
ANGLER FINDS
GOOD AND BAD
ON FIRST TRIP
On his first free weekend in
Oregon, Dr. Raymond Wilhour,
plant pathologist at the National
Ecological Research Laboratory,
Corvallis, had some good news
and some bad news.
Ardent fisherman Wilhour went
after the famous, hard-to-catch
steelhead trout, which they don't
have back East in North Caro-
lina, where Wilhour used to
work at NERC-Research Tri-
angle Park. Local experts told
him it takes, on the average, 35
hours of fishing per steelhead
caught.
The good news: Ray landed a
29-inch steelhead weighing more
than 10 pounds on his first time
out, making him a likely candi-
date for the elite 10 percent of
steelhead fishermen who catch 90
percent of the fish.
Now the bad news: In his
excitement Ray hustled back to
his car and drove home to Cor-
vallis with his prize, leaving all
his fishing gear on the bank of
Alsea River.
When he returned he found
that some other sportsman had
"liberated" his rod, reel, and
tackle box.
Decline Is Found
In DDT Residues
Clams and oysters found in U.S.
coastal waters contain much less
DDT and its by-products than they
did five years ago, according to Dr.
Philip Butler of EPA's Gulf Breeze
Environmental Research Labora-
tory, Gulf Breeze, Fla.
Dr. Butler's studies are summa-
rized in a report, "DDT in Estua-
rine Molluscs," soon to be pub-
lished.
The report is based on more than
8,000 mollusc samples collected in
15 coastal States over periods rang-
ing from two to eight years. Most
of the samples were analyzed by
Butler and his co-workers at the
Gulf Breeze laboratory.
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