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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.
               m
    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
      (Continued from page 1)

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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