Water pollution control.
Subtitle: Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, first session, on S. 45 [and others] amending the Federal water pollution control act to provide for a more effective program of water pollution control. May 8 and 9, 1961.
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Water -- Pollution -- United States.
Description: Considers legislation to amend Federal Water Pollution Control Act. S. 45, to increase grants to municipalities for sewage treatment plant projects. S. 120 and related H.R. 6441, to intensify HEW efforts to ensure sanitary water treatment plant and reservoir construction, to establish water quality research and testing labs, and to increase funding to states and local governments for regulated projects. S. 325, to authorize Surgeon General, HEW, to establish water pollution research lab in the Pacific Northwest to study problems of water supply, pollution, storage and aquatic life. S. 571, to authorize HEW and Interior Dept to seal off mines in states to prevent pollutant runoff into water supply. S. 861, to establish a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration in HEW to perform water pollution control tasks presently administered by HEW Surgeon General. S. 1475, to authorize HEW to provide a plan to balance forecasted reservoir water releases with pollution control.
Notes: Available also in microform in CIS US congressional committee hearings, accession number (87)S1438-5.