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U.S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY-WASHINGTON, D.C 20460 • OCTOBER 1973
Train Pledges EPA Independence
"The Environmental Protection
Agency is strongly independent,"
said Russell E. Train, the Agency's
new administrator, "and I am deter-
mined, during my tenure, to con-
tinue that strong independence in
administering its laws fairly and
vigorously."
In a statement issued shortly
after he took his oath of office Sept.
14, Train urged all EPA employees
to "uphold this Agency's reputation
for integrity and commitment."
The leadership of EPA, Train
said, is "one of the toughest jobs in
government," and the Agency's
work is crucial to the health and
welfare of the American people.
"The decisions we must deal with
are enormously complex. We all
realize how important it is that we
do our job well.
"We at EPA and environmental-
ists everywhere who share our vital
cause must be strong, but fair; deter-
mined, but prudent; aggressive, but
courteous; dedicated, but analytical,
as we face the challenges and diffi-
cult choices that now lie ahead of us.
Support Urged
"I intend to take every possible
opportunity to get to know each of
you—in Washington and in our
regional offices and laboratories. I
want and need your support in mak-
ing . . . wise decisions . . . You will
always have my full support in your
efforts to achieve such decisions."
Train succeeds William D. Ruck-
elshaus, then Deputy Attorney Gen-
eral of the United States, after a
five-month interregnum when Rob-
ert Fri and John R. Quarles were
acting administrators.
Train had been chairman of the
Council on Environmental Quality
(CEQ), President Nixon's principal
—photo by Ernest Bucci
Russell Train takes oath of office as EPA Administrator from Attorney
General Elliott Richardson, as Mrs. Aileen Train holds the Bible.
advisory group on environmental
matters, since it was organized early
in 1970. He said he sought the
EPA appointment, which he termed
"both a tremendous challenge and a
great honor."
The 5 3-year-old Train is a life-
long resident of Washington, D.C.,
and a graduate of Princeton Univer-
sity and Columbia University Law
School.
In 1947 he was an attorney for
the Joint Congressional Committee
on Internal Revenue Taxation, later
was chief counsel and minority ad-
viser to the House Ways and Means
Committee, and then headed the
Treasury Department's legislative
staff.
President Eisenhower appointed
him a judge of the U.S. Tax Court
in 1957 and reappointed him to a
full 12-year term two years later.
While serving on the Tax Court,
Train became active in conservation
work. He helped to organize and
was the first president of the Afri-
can Wildlife Leadership Founda-
tion. In 1965, he resigned as judge
to become president of the Conser-
vation Foundation, a nonprofit re-
search and educational organiza-
tion. President Nixon in 1969
appointed him Undersecretary of the
Interior, a post he left a year later
to head the CEQ.
Train is a U.S. representative on
the NATO Committee on the Chal-
lenges of Modern Society. He
headed the U.S. delegation to the
1972 UN Environmental Conference
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Melodee Haynes saws her way through a 20-inch log at an Oregon timber
carnival. Her partner, Gerald Jackson, is oat of the picture at right.
Astraddle log is a contest official with wedge to keep saw from binding.
Petite Clerk-Typist at Corvallis
Saws Big Logs on Weekends
Melodee Haynes, 18-year-old
clerk-typist in the Office Services
Section at NERC-Corvalh's, is a
weekend "lumberjill."
Throughout the summer Melodee
(who stands 5-feet-2 and weighs
110 pounds) competed in the log-
ging carnivals that are as popular in
the Northwestern timber lands as
rodeos are in ranch country.
Her specialty is the "Jack and Jill
Double-bucking" event, in which
partners of different sexes, on op-
posite ends of an old-fashioned
crosscut saw, try to cut a 20-inch
log in the shortest possible time.
Melodee's partner is her brother-
in-law, Gerald Jackson. Jackson is
a former logger, now a businessman,
who is also the current axe-throw-
ing champion.
In their first outing at the Central
Oregon Timber Carnival at Prine-
ville, the Haynes-Jackson team won
second place and collected a trophy
and a $25 cash prize. Their time
was 18.5 seconds.
They also competed at the U.S.
Open Loggers Championships in
Roseburg and at timber carnivals at
Albany, where they finished fifth
among 22 couples, and at Estacada,
where their 15.9-second time was
only good for sixth place.
Next summer Melodee plans to
try again, and she and her partner
hope to be in the money every time
out. During the season they prac-
tice at least once a week.
How did she get interested in
lumberjilling?
"I grew up in a logging town
(Sweet Home, 30 miles southeast of
Corvallis) and I've had the pleasure
of meeting and knowing many peo-
ple who participated in timber car-
nivals. I decided that taking an
active part in these events was one
way to get to know these interesting
people better."
Most carnival contestants are not.
loggers, she says, but businessmen,
schoolteachers and college students,
and local government officials. They
are interested in perpetuating the
lore and skills of the timber coun-
try's premechanized days, before
the chain saw and powered equip-
ment took over.
M. K. GLENN,
R. H. JOHNSON
IN NEW POSTS
Michael K. Glenn, who has been
in charge of water enforcement in
the Office of Enforcement and Gen-
eral Counsel since April, was re-
cently appointed a special assistant
to Administrator Russell E. Train.
Richard H. Johnson, Region I
enforcement director, has been
named to the OEGC water enforce-
ment post.
In his new position Glenn will
advise the administrator and Deputy
Administrator John Quarles on spe-
cial projects involving the Agency.
Glenn had previously worked as
a special assistant to Quarles, main-
ly on water enforcement matters
and the discharge permit program.
Glenn came to EPA after serving
as a senior staff member of the
President's Council on Executive
Organization—the "Ash Council"
—and before that was an attorney
with the law firm of Dewey, Ballan-
tine, Bushby, Palmer, and Wood in
New York City.
Glenn is 33, a native of Ham-
burg, Iowa, and a graduate of Iowa
State University and its School of
Law.
Johnson, as deputy assistant ad-
ministrator for water enforcement,
will have over-all responsibility for
the national water permit system
and for the Field Investigation Cen-
ters in Cincinnati and Denver.
Johnson joined the Regional Of-
fice in Boston in June, 1972, and
four months later was named direc-
tor of the region's Enforcement Di-
vision. A specialist in environmental
law, he was associated with the Bos-
ton law firm of Bingham, Dana,
and Gould for five years. As chair-
man of the Boston Bar Associa-
tion's Environment Committee, he
helped to draft legislation and reg-
ulations in air pollution control,
noise abatement, and citizen en-
vironmental suits.
Johnson, 33, is a graduate of
Princeton University and Harvard
Law School.
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Agreements With AEC Expand CHARITY DRIVE
UNDER WAY
EPA employees in the Washing-
EPA's Role in Radiation Work
Two recent agreements between
EPA and the Atomic Energy Com-
mission have defined for the first
time the Agency's role in inspecting
and data gathering at nuclear facili-
ties owned or licensed by the AEC.
The two agencies have coop-
erated in the past on a case-by-case
basis whenever EPA's Radiation
Office, which is charged with set-
ting standards for radioactivity in
the environment, sought information
or data on radioactive discharges
from AEC-controlled sources. The
new agreements regularize the co-
operative patterns already set, and
in certain instances give EPA per-
sonnel a flexibility they did not have
before.
The first "memorandum of under-
standing," signed April 10, covers
facilities owned by AEC and oper-
ated by private contractors (for ex-
ample, the Oak Ridge, Tehn., plant
operated by Union Carbide Corp.).
It provides that authorized EPA
personnel may enter the AEC-con-
tractor facilities "at reasonable
times ... to establish and verify"
environmental radiation standards.
This includes (a) determining, for a
particular kind of radioactivity, that
a problem exists and a standard
should be set; (b) gathering data
needed to set such a standard; and
(c) assessing the results of control
measures. National security clear-
ances may be required for EPA per-
sonnel before such entry.
AEC retains full responsibility for
operations within the site bounda-
ries, and EPA has no right to inter-
fere. EPA will advise the Commis-
sion and obtain its comments before
publishing any AEC-furnished data
relating to pollutant emissions. EPA
will furnish technical advice and
assistance regarding such emissions
only upon request of the AEC.
The second memorandum of un-
derstanding, which was signed Aug.
27, applies to all nuclear facilities
licensed by AEC: power plants,
fuel element fabrication and reproc-
essing, and some uranium milling
operations.
It allows, for the first time, EPA
representatives to accompany AEC
inspectors on some inspections of
licensed nuclear facilities to learn
how licensees conform to generally
applicable environmental standards
for radiation levels.
As with the contractor-facilities
agreement, the licensed-facilities
agreement requires EPA to advise
the AEC and obtain AEC comments
before EPA publishes data on re-
leases from licensed facilities, and to
furnish on request technical advice
and assistance.
The memoranda emphasize
AEC's pledge to observe the radia-
tion standards set by EPA and to
require conformance by its con-
tractors and licensees. Both agencies
have responsibilities for public
health and safety and for environ-
mental protection, and the memo-
randa seek "to fix an appropriation
interface" of the two agencies' func-
tions and to avoid unnecessary
duplication.
ton, D.C., area have a goal of rais-
ing more than $64,000 in the Com-
bined Federal Campaign now under
way.
The annual drive is to raise
money for 117 local, national and
international charitable agencies,
and most of the givers do so by pay-
roll deductions.
HEW Secretary Caspar Wein-
berger is chairman of the entire
campaign in the national capital
area, and the over-all goal is $9.2
million.
Named to solicit contributions
or payroll deduction pledges for the
various component offices are:
Josephine Trapani, chief, Barbara
Sewer, Jean Durant, Bertha Dear-
ing, Jack Tarran, Joseph Handy,
Felicia Toth, Teresa Hardwick, Lil-
lian Ross, Reba McHugh, Jill Mar-
shall, and Merelee Miller.
Agency employees outside of
Washington in Regional Offices,
Research Centers, and laboratories
participate in similar combined
charitable drives—e.g., Community
Chests, United Funds—in their re-
spective areas.
Region IX Gives Bronze Medal
To Word Processing Center
Ten employees of EPA's Region
IX "Word Processing Center" were
honored last month at the San
Francisco regional office.
Paul DeFalco Jr., regional ad-
ministrator, presented the Agency's
third highest award, the Bronze
Medal, to the employees and com-
mended them for their competence
and superior performance over the
past year.
Cited for patience, courtesy, and
hard work were Mary Doss,.chief,
Carrie Chin, Jennie Chin, Naomi
Cambell, Lynn Grinker, Delores
Johnson, Amie Myers, Linda Payne,
Marjorie Polich, Debra Sieglock,
Marva White, and Glenda Wrights-
man.
At this time last year the region's
conventional typing pool was reor-
ganized and renamed the Word
Processing Center. It was equipped
with tape recorders and special
typewriters that can be actuated by
magnetic tapes and cards as well
as by the typist.
A Word Processing Center has
also been established at NERC-
RPT by Dr. Burton Levy, director
of administration. It was organized
in January with Dee Houston as
planner-coordinator and now has a
staff of six; Darlene Jones, chief;
Sandra Goehring, Jane McKenney,
Essie Williams, and Dorothy
Choyce, word processing special-
ists; and Patsy Lee, student aide.
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Prize-Winning Photos Go on Tour
The winning pictures in EPA's
first annual amateur photography
contest are on their way around the
country for display at the ten Re-
gional Offices and four National
Environmental Research Centers.
After first being displayed for a
month at the Visitors' Center in the
Waterside Mall headquarters build-
ing in Washington, the prize photos
were sent to NERC-Research Tri-
angle Park, The next stop will be
Region I, Boston.
Thereafter the schedule is not cer-
tain, said William F. Gallogly, chief,
Audio-Visual Support Branch. "We
are asking each EPA component to
display the photos in their lobbies
for about two weeks and then pass
them on to a nearby location. We
are starting in the east and will work
westward," he said.
Dietrich LaForest, computer pro-
grammer in the Denver regional
VIII office, won the grand prize
with a photo of the sun shining
behind a rocky peak. LaForest also
took second prize in the wildlife
category.
The contest was divided into four
categories, natural areas, pollution
First prize in the Natural Areas class and grand prize went to a color
photo by Dietrich LaForest, Denver office, of an Arizona sunset.
$10 were made in each category.
abatement, beautification, and wild-
life. Cash awards of $25, $15, and
This spider on a dew-decked web won the Wildlife prize for Jeff Kempter,
who works for the Office of Pesticide Programs in Washington.
La Forest's combined prize check
was $50.
The winners were:
Natural areas—First, Dietrich La-
Forest; second, William S. Seller,
physical science administrator,
Water Quality and Non-Point
Source Control, Washington, now
on a year's assignment in Puerto
Rico; third, Stephen P. Lathrop,
aquatic biologist, Water Supply
Branch, Boston regional office.
Pollution abatement—First, Ib-
rahirn Joseph Hindawi, plant biolo-
gist formerly with NERC, Research
Triangle Park, and since transferred
to NERC-Corvallis; second, Craig
Vogt, sanitary engineer in Region
X, Seattle, now with the Effluent
Guidelines Development Branch,
Washington; third, Glenn D. Pratt,
supervisory sanitary engineer, Water
Enforcement Division, Chicago.
Beautification—First, Gerald Mc-
Millan, auditor, Region VII, Kan-
sas City; second, R. W. Thieme,
Office of Water Enforcement, Wash-
ington. No third prize was awarded
in this category.
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Looking for Environmental Data?
EPA Has 127 Different Systems
Data, data, who's got the data?
EPA, that's who.
The Office of Planning and Man-
agement recently published an in-
ventory of the collections of envi-
ronmental data now available within
the Agency.
There are 127 different data sys-
tems; 94 of them are automated—
stored on computers for fast re-
trieval—and 33 are manual files.
They range from Water Pro-
grams' giant STORET system,
which contains water quality infor-
mation on lakes and rivers through-
out the country and can be accessed
from 130 locations, to various re-
gional files on such matters as con-
struction grant applications, pesti-
cide, accidents, and open dumps.
For each data system the inven-
tory gives the name, location, a
brief description, and the manager's
name. If the system is automated,
the inventory gives the computer
language used, storage capacity, and
access equipment required.
Some systems have acronymic
names (STORET, CHESS, SWIRS)
that are already well known to en-
vironmental technicians. Less well
known is the predictable acronym
of the computerized file of water
sampling data in EPA's laboratory
in College, Alaska. It is the System
for Control and Retrieval of Whole
This photo of a tree blasted by fumes from industrial stacks in the distance
won the Pollution Abatement prize for Ibrahim J. Hindawi, Corvallis.
Wildlife — First, Jeff Kempter,
Strategic Studies Division, Office of
Pesticide Programs, Washington;
second, Dietrich LaForest; and
third, E. P. Floyd, former biological
science administrator in the Labora-
tory Operations Division, Washing-
ton, who has since left the Agency.
All the winning photos were in
color.
and Edited Data.
The 64-page "Environmental In-
formation Systems Directory," lists
the 127 data collections by program
category (air, water, pesticides, etc.)
and indexes them by subject, man-
ager's name, and place in EPA's
organization.
Information from the inventory is
available to all components of EPA
and to other governmental organiza-
tions "performing environmental-
related missions," according to
Michael L. Springer, director of the
Management Information and Data
Systems Division. The division
plans to update the directory each
year.
R & D Office Gives
Two Bronze Medals
Two staff members of the Re-
search and Development Office were
recently awarded Bronze Medals
for commendable service by Assist-
a n t Administrator Stanley M.
Greenfield.
Both men were honored for ap-
plying electronic data processing
techniques to clarify and organize
information needed to manage EPA
research projects more effectively.
Robert J. Edgar, deputy chief of
the Resource Management Branch,
was cited for developing EDP
methods to monitor manpower re-
sources, to inventory key informa-
tion for about 1,000 outside re-
viewers of research grants and con-
tracts, and to provide continuous
data on the status of more than
3,000 grant applications. Edgar
has been with EPA since August,
1971.
Calvin O. Lawrence, supervisor
physical scientist, was cited for de-
veloping a computer-based data
handling system for the R & D
Office's senior planning body, the
Program Assessment Group. This
system allows the planners to re-
view research programs for the next
six years in terms of specific priori-
ties and outputs and to quickly de-
termine the impact of different
choices on R & D budgets, staffing
and resources. Lawrence joined
EPA last October.
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TRAIN PLEDGES
INDEPENDENCE
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at Stockholm and at other world
meetings on ocean dumping and en-
dangered species. He is co-chair-
man of the U.S.-Soviet Union Joint
Committee on Cooperation in the
Field of Environmental Protection.
He and his wife, the former
Aileen Bowdoin, are the parents of
four children: daughters Nancy
(Mrs. St. John Smith), 26; Emily,
23; and Errol, 14; and son C. Bow-
doin, 18.
Key CEQ Staffers
Transfer to EPA
With New Chief
Administrator Russell E. Train
has brought to EPA several persons
who were with him at the Council
for Environmental Quality.
Alvin L. Aim is the new Assist-
ant Administrator for Planning and
Management, replacing Thomas E.
Carroll. Aim was staff director for
program development at the CEO
from its formation in February,
1970, until July, when his EPA ap-
pointment was confirmed by the
Senate. Previously he served as
budget examiner and principal
budget examiner at the Bureau of
the Budget (now Office of Manage-
ment and Budget) and as a manage-
ment intern and contract administra-
tor for the Atomic Energy Commis-
sion.
Roger Strelow, executive assist-
ant to the administrator, served as
senior staff member and staff direc-
tor for the CEQ. He formerly was
with the Department of Health, Edu-
cation, and Welfare as director of
the Office of Environmental Affairs
and as assistant to the Secretary.
He holds a degree in economics and
business administration at Principia
College and a law degree from the
University of California at Berkeley.
John Fogarty was director of pub-
lic information at the CEQ and is
now special assistant to the admin-
istrator. Fogarty is a graduate of
the University of Baltimore. Before
going to CEQ he was press assistant
—photo by Ernest Bucci
After swearing-in ceremony EPA Administrator Train poses with Alvin L.
Aim, left, new Assistant Administrator for Planning and Management.
to Senator Charles McC. Mathias of
Maryland and had worked as a
reporter for The Baltimore News
American, night editor and broad-
cast deskman for The Associated
Press.
Marian O'Connell, the adminis-
trator's executive secretary, has been
with him most of the last quarter
century, starting at the Treasury
Department and continuing through
his service at the Department of the
Interior and the CEO.
Loretto Long
Wins Scholarship
Loretto G. Long recently won a
full-tuition scholarship from South-
eastern University and is studying
for a degree in business adminis-
tration while working full time as
a secretary in the Office of General
Counsel.
Mrs. Long won her $ 1,072 schol-
arship on the basis of a competitive
examination and the recommenda-
tion of her supervisor. Her son
Martin, 19, is also attending South-
eastern, which is only a block away
from EPA headquarters and holds
its classes evenings and Saturdays.
L. R. Freeman
Named Deputy
In Region IX
L. Russell Freeman, former di-
rector of congressional and inter-
governmental relations in Region
IX, has been named deputy admin-
istrator for EPA's Region IX Office
in San Francisco. He succeeds
George W. Milias, who is now
deputy assistant secretary for en-
vironmental quality in the Depart-
ment of Defense. Freeman will as-
sist Regional Administrator Paul
De Falco Jr. in managing Federal
pollution-control programs in Cali-
fornia, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii,
Guam and American Samoa, and
the Trust Territories.
Freeman formerly worked with
the Colorado Water Quality Con-
trol Project, the Colorado-Bonne-
ville Basin Office, and was director
of the Pacific Islands Basin, South-
west Region.
Freeman, 35, holds a civil engi-
neering degree from the University
of Colorado and a master's degree
in resources management from
Johns Hopkins University, Balti-
more.
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YOUNG LAWYERS
PLAN WORK ON
ENVIRONMENT
An organization of America's
young lawyers agreed recently to
work on two vital environmental
problems: achieving wise controls
on land use development and in-
creasing the effectiveness of state
air and water quality laws.
The group is the Young Law-
yers' Section of the American Bar
Association, which held its 96th
annual meeting in Washington Aug.
3-10. During the meeting, the
Young Lawyers' Section organized
a task force to evaluate current in-
stitutional patterns of organization
in these fields, to suggest appropri-
ate new patterns, to draft and pro-
pose model state legislation, and to
develop mechanisms for the resolu-
tion of conflicts.
Section and task force leaders
met with EPA officials to make
plans for the project, which Harry
L. Hathaway, immediate past chair-
man of the section, said "will in-
volve us in an area in which young
lawyers are vitally interested" and
continue the section's "record of
public service."
The Young Lawyers' Section has
more than 66,000 members, and its
public service projects have in-
cluded drug abuse education,
prison reform, and legal assistance
in disaster areas.
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.
Printed on reclaimed waste pa-
per.
Van V. Tnimbull, editor
Office of Public Affairs
Room W218, EPA
Washington, D.C. 20460
EPA officials and members of the American Bar Association's Young
Lawyers' Section meet in the acting administrator's office to discuss the
section's plans to work on land use regulation and environmental law
enforcement. From the left are Robert G. Ryan Jr., Office of Legislation;
George P. Smith, co-chairman of the ABA Section's Environmental Qual-
ity Committee; Daniel T. Rabbirt, section chairman; John R. Quarles Jr.,
acting administrator; Harry L. Hathaway, past chairman of the section;
and Nicholas M. Golubin, Intergovernmental Relations Division.
Instrument Society Honor Goes
To RTP Research Scientist
Andrew E. O'Keefe of NERC-
RTP's Chemistry and Physics Lab-
oratory received the Arnold O.
Beckman Award at the Instrument
Society of America's annual con-
ference in Houston, Texas, Oct. 16.
The award is given each year for
"significant technological contribu-
tions in the conception and imple-
mentation of new principles of in-
strument design, development, or ap-
plication." It consists of $1,000, an
engraved plaque, and a certificate.
As chief of the Air Quality Meas-
urement Methods Branch of CPL,
O'Keefe directs EPA's research
efforts in developing new analytical
methods and instruments for identi-
fying and measuring air pollutants.
He has been with EPA and its pred-
ecessor agencies for nine years.
He developed the permeation
tube, a widely used instrument cali-
bration device. The patent for the
tube was assigned to the people of
the United States.
Before joining the Federal serv-
ice, O'Keefe had a distinguished re-
search career in private industry.
At the Squibb Institute for Medical
Research, where he worked 13
years, he invented a process for the
separation of two varieties of strep-
tomycin, for which he was awarded
two patents. He organized and for
eight years headed the Philip Morris
Research Division, which developed
important new knowledge of the
chemistry of tobacco smoke. While
at Keuffel and Esser Company he
invented an electrostatic photocopy-
ing device.
O'Keefe is a frequent speaker on
air pollution measurement, and is
probably best known for his talk,
"Over the Horizon in Air Pollution
Instrumentation," which he has
given before audiences in more than
a dozen states.
O'Keefe is a graduate of the
University of Notre Dame and
earned a master's degree from the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
During World War II he served as
a major in the Army and received
a Bronze Star for bravery in action.
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EPA Is Host to Soviet Water Experts
Water pollution experts from the
Soviet Union recently made a two-
week study tour of pollution abate-
ment projects and laboratories in
eastern United States.
The team included Drs. V. R.
Lozanskiy, V. B. Stradomskiy, and
Y. V. Yeremenko. They were ac-
companied by William A. Somers
and Faith Campbell of EPA's Water
Programs Office, and Vladimir
Storojev, a State Department inter-
preter.
Reciprocating a visit to the Soviet
Union made in August by a U.S.
water pollution team headed by
John R. Buckley of the Office of
Research and Development, the
group spent three working days in
the Philadelphia area, two in Cin-
cinnati, four in Washington, and
one in New York, with four days
devoted to travel, sightseeing, and
relaxation.
Mark Silverman, public affairs
director for Region II, was principal
host to the Soviet group in Philadel-
phia, where the visitors learned
about river basin modeling for the
Delaware valley and inspected an
oil refinery, a pharmaceutical com-
pany, two municipal sewage treat-
ment plants, and the Tri-County
Conservancy, a conservation project
at Brandywine, Pa.
Soviet visitors pose before portrait of the late Senator Robert A. Taft at
NERC-Cincinnati. From the left are Y. V. Yeremenko, V. R. Lozanskiy,
NERC Director Andrew Breidenbach, and Y. B. Stradomskiy.
In Cincinnati the group's hosts
were Valdas Adamkus of Region
V, Chicago; C. R. Ownbey, coordi-
nator of the Ohio River Basin Com-
mission; and Dr. Andrew Breiden-
bach, director of NERC-Cincinnati.
The visitors were briefed on the
plans and operations of the Ohio
River Valley Water and Sanitation
Commission and the Ohio River
Basin Commission. They also visited
Hard hats are required as Soviet visitors inspect pollution controls at the
Gulf Oil Corporation's Girard Point Refinery in Philadelphia.
the Taft Center building of NERC-
Cincinnati, home of much of EPA's
water quality research, and the
Metropolitan Cincinnati Sewer Dis-
trict's offices and plant.
In Washington the group devoted
most of its time to discussions of
joint work projects for the two
countries, particularly in river basin
studies.
Since Soviet modeling methods
differ from those used in America,
the discussants spent much effort on
defining technical terms and estab-
lishing methods for future joint
work in this field.
It was proposed that in future ex-
changes American scientists might
perform model studies of a Soviet
river, and vice-versa. An example
might be the Severskiy-Donetz Riv-
er, which flows into the Don about
400 kilometers south of Moscow
after passing through a highly in-
dustrialized region, and the Dela-
ware or the Ohio.
Such matching of Soviet and
American problems is already under
way in lake preservation (Tahoe and
Baikal), community planning (Res-
ton and Togliatti), and earthquake
prediction (the San Andreas and
Garm-Dushanbe fault regions).
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