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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, AUGUST 2, 1976
UNIVERSITIES IN FOUR MIDWEST STATES TO STtJDY ENERGY IMPACT ON
OHIO BASIN
Researchers in six State universities — located in
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio — have been offered
grants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a one-
year, preliminary study of the impact of existing and proposed
energy facilities on the lower Ohio River basin.
Work on this inter-institutional effort will not begin
until governing boards at the various universities have
formally accepted the grants. The grant offers have been
extended to the main campuses of five of the universities
and to two separate campuses of the sixth institution.
Grants to be awarded under the project will total
$720,579.
Selected by the EPA were single campuses of Indiana
University, Bloomington, Indiana; University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky; University of Louisville, Louisville,
Kentucky; the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and
Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Both the Urbana-
Champaign and Chicago Circle 'campuses of the University of
Illinois were chosen to participate in the project.
Work performed under the grants will represent the
first phase in a proposed three-year assessment of the environ-
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mental, economic, and sociological impacts of energy develop-
ments of all types along the lower Ohio River and within its
basin. This portion of the stream is defined as extending
from Cairo, Illinois, where the Ohio empties into the
Mississippi River, to approximately the Eastern-most point
of contact of the State of Kentucky with the River. Thus,
substantial parts of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio
w^ljL be^ investigated.
The precise region to be examined will be determined
later by the group of university researchers and representa-
tives of the EPA. Collaborating in the effort will be inter-
disciplinary groups consistingof environmentalists, engineers,
biologists, economists, lawyers, geographers, psychologists,
political scientists, and representatives of other pertinent
fields. To meet the demands of such an inter-institutional
and inter-state undertaking, EPA has established a special
management arrangement, headed by a project office which
includes a scientist from its headquarters in Washington,
two academic research specialists, and scientists from two
EPA regional offices.
Responsibility for oversight of EPA activities in Illinois,
Indiana, and Ohio rests with Region V of EPA with offices in
Chicago. Kentucky is located in Region IV, which h&s offices
in Atlanta, Georgia.
The directive for the energy impact study came from the
U.S. Congress, and a final "Phase I" integrated report based
on the various elements of the effort will be submitted to
Congress.
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