UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION agency WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 OFFICIAL BUSINESS PENALTY FOR PR IV ATE USE V*00 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER postagf: and f-t-:t.s paid U.S. CNVIRONMCNTAL PN O T £ C T i ON AGE UC < F P A .-I H *, [5 U&MJUL A 1SZZ Environmental News Wiener (202) 755-0344 FOR USE UPON RECEIPT EPA LISTS JUNE 1975 NEWS RELEASES Following is a list of the news releases issued by the Environmental Protection Agency during the month of June 1975. The releases are listed chronologically, by exact title. A capsule description of the information contained in each release is given, along with the last name of the indi- vidual who may be contacted for further information. Unless otherwise noted, the telephone number to call is (202) 755-0344. Copies of the news releases may be obtained by calling this number, or by writing to the EPA News Services Division, Room 329, West Tower, Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW. , Washing- ton, D.C. 20460. / June 2 QUARLES STRESSES NEED FOR GLOBAL POLLUTION CONTROL ¦ EFFORT -- The Deputy Administrator stresses need for a coordi- nated international effort to control pollution in a speech before a multinational Seminar on Environmental Pollution in Brasilia, Brazil, sponsored by the Pan American Health Organi- zation. (Acly) June 3 -- EPA TO ESTABLISH NOISE TEST FACILITY EPA will use an area in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Plum Brook Research Center near Sandusky, Ohio, to conduct noise emission tests in connection with enforcement of new noise control regulations. (Robinson) (more) Return this sheet if you do NOT wish to receive thi* material ~, or if change of address is needed ~ (indicate change, including zip code). EPA FORM 1510-1 (REV. 6-72) R-167 ------- June 5 MASSACHUSETTS MAN NAMED AGRICULTURAL ADVISOR -- Nathan Chandler, Former Commissioner of Agriculture for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, named by the EPA Administrator as a consultant for agriculture. (O'Neill) June 10 EPA STUDIES HUMAN EXPOSURE TO OZONE EPA awards a $102,957 contract to Stanford University's School of Medicine to study the behavioral and psychological effects on humans of low level exposures to ozone. (Robinson) June 10 EPA GRANTS $658 MILLION IN MAY FOR SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT CONSTRUCTION May awards for the construction of sewage treatment facilities in municipalities total $658 million, bringing the three-month period award total (March through May) to $1,068 billion. (Niles) June 10 EPA TEAM TO REVIEW ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS IN POLAND -- A three-member team of EPA officials takes part in a joint United States-Polish evaluation of environmental research programs conducted in five Polish cities. (Lawson 202-755-0413) June 11 VICTOR J. KIMM NAMED DEPUTY ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR WATER SUPPLY AT EPA -- Train announces new post for Kimm, previously Deputy Director of the Office of Planning and Evalua- tion. (Acly) June 12 EPA PUBLISHES SEMI-ANNUAL AWARD LISTING OF ITS GRANTS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Two-volume listing of grants assistance y7 awards made during the first half of Fiscal Year 1975 now avail- able . (Wiener) June 12 EPA HOLDING PUBLIC HEARINGS ON PROPOSALS TO CHANGE SEWAGE TREATMENT GRANT PROGRAM Four public hearings held in June in Atlanta, Kansas City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to discuss several issues relating to the grant program for construction of municipal sewage treatment facilities. (Niles) June 12 QUARLES PROJECTS INCREASES IN COST OF DRINKING WATER Deputy Administrator says that costly measures to ensure the safety of public water supplies will be required to carry olit the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. (Acly) June 13 EPA MAKES AVAILABLE ITS COMMENTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS FOR APRIL 1975 List of environmental impact statements upon which the EPA commented during April available to the public. (Wiener) June 13 CHEMICAL WASTES DISPOSAL DEMONSTRATION FOR MINNEAPOLIS- ST. PAUL -- EPA announces a demonstration project designed to illustrate industrial disposal of chemical wastes without risk of contaminating drinking water supplies and the environment. (Sibbison) (more) ------- -3- June 13 EPA EXTENDS COMMENT PERIOD ON DREDGING DISPOSAL GUIDELINES EPA extends comment period to June 30 on guide- lines proposed May 6 governing the issuance of permits by the Army Corps of Engineers for the discharge in water of dredged or fill material. (Niles) June 17 -- EPA REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON SAFE DRINKING WATER PROGRAMS -- EPA report to Congress detailing EPA programs to identify the sources, nature, and extent of contamination of the nation's drinking water by potentially cancer-causing materials. (Robinson) June 17 PESTICIDES RESEARCH CONTRACT AWARDED EPA-National Bureau of Standards joint award of a $300,000 contract to A. D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, to investigate Federal incentives for stimulating private industry research into new pest control techniques. (O'Neill) June 17 EPA PESTICIDE LABORATORY SERVICES PAMPHLET AVAILABLE A pamphlet titled "Pesticide Examination Services" now available lists the biological and chemical test capabilities of EPA labs and field operations in Beltsville, Maryland, Corvallis, Oregon and Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. (O'Neill) June 23 EPA TASK FORCE URGES TIGHTENED PROCEDURES, MORE STAFF TO EXPEDITE $18 BILLION CONSTRUCTION GRANTS OBLIGATION Administrator receives and approves recommendations of a Special Task Force which will make important changes in EPA procedures for administering the water pollution construction grant program. (Wiener) June 24 EPA STUDY IN OCCOQUAN AREA TO SHED LIGHT ON ORGANICS, VIRUSES IN PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM Announcement of an 18-month study of health-related substances including organic chemicals and virus levels in the Occoquan basin and water service area of Northern Virginia. (Niles) June 27 GERBER NAMED EPA ASSOCIATE ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR R&D Carl Reed Gerber, formerly a consultant in the R & D Office, named Associate Assistant Administrator for R&D. (Robinson) June 30 EPA INDEFINITELY SUSPENDS PARKING-RELATED PROVISIONS OF INDIRECT SOURCE REGULATIONS EPA suspends indefinitely those portions of the "indirect source" air quality regulations that require the pre-construction review of parking-related facilities. (Lawson 202-755-0413) # # # 1-167 ------- |