AIR POLLUTION-1969 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON PROBLEMS AND PROGRAMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION 38-702 OCTOBER 27, 1969 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1970 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS JENNINGS RANDOLPH, West Virginia, Chairman STEPHEN M. YOUNG, Ohio B. EVERETT JORDAN, North Carolina JOSEPH M. MONTOYA, New Mexico JOHN SHERMAN COOPER, Kentucky RICHARD B. ROYCE, Chief Clerk and Staff Director J. B. HUYETT, Jr., Assistant Chief Clerk and Assistant Staff Director BAILEY GUARD, Assistant Chief Clerk (Minority) JOSEPH F. VAN VLADRICKEN, LEON G. BILLINGS, RICHARD D. GRUNDY, STEWART E. MCCLURE, CONTENTS Page Barlow, Milton, chief steward, St. Joe Lead Co., Herculaneum plant....... 160 161 Bogle, James H., chairman, St. Louis, Mo., Air Conservation Commission, Cervantes, Hon. A. J., mayor, City of St. Louis, Mo.-- Commoner, Barry, director, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.... Copley, Charles M., Jr., air pollution control commissioner, St. Louis, Mo. Dessert, Louis C., Jr., chairman, environmental committee, Chemical Industry Council of Greater St. Louis.. Drey, Leo A., president, Coalition for the Environment-St. Louis Region. Dyer, Gerald, graduate engineer...--- Eagleton, Hon. Thomas F., member, Subcommittee on Public Works and Flance, Dr. I. Jerome, associate director, Department of Medicine, St. Francis, Mrs. Jean, chairman, Citizens for Clean Air, Granite City, Ill___ French, Robert F., chief, Bureau of Air Pollution Control, Division of Sanitary Engineering, Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield, Gates, Dr. David M., director, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Mo.. Green, Lewis, C., former chairman of the Air Conservation Commission of Hardy, Robert, news director KMOX Radio, St. Louis, Mo.. Hausch, Mrs. Henry, a director of the Metropolitan Council of the League Hungate, Hon. William L., a Representative in Congress from the Ninth Congressional District of the State of Missouri_ Kahn, Alfred, vice president, Coalition for the Environment-St. Louis Keehner, Jim D., assistant attorney general, State of Illinois, and chief of the attorney general's Southern Illinois Air and Water Pollution Control 121 76 13 30 King, Richard, member, Teamsters Local 688. Knight, Britton K., resident, Granite City, Ill Kohn, Dr. Robert E., assistant professor of economics, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and member, scientific division, Committee for Environmental Information___. Kuster, Mrs. Richard E., American Association of University Women, 159 Lanter, Mrs. Carole, co-chairman, Citizens for Clean Air, Granite City, 170 Moon, Harry A., manager, titanium division, National Lead Co.... Mann, William L., director, Environmental Health Department, National McLaughlin, John F., member of the board of directors, Industrial Waste Page Pace, James, director, Community Action, Teamsters Local 688.. Rockoff, Dr. S. David, chairman, executive committee, Lung Specialists of St. Louis Against Air Pollution___ Roesch, James, executive secretary, Illinois Citizens' Clean Air League__ Shell, Harvey, acting executive director, Missouri Air Conservation Com- Slavin, Dr. Raymond, chairman, Air Pollution Committee, Committee for Environmental__Information, and assistant professor of internal medicine, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.. Stites, Joseph G., manager, Air Pollution Control Department, Monsanto Symington, Hon. James W., a Representative in Congress from the Second Symington, Hon. Stuart, a U.S. Senator from the State of Missouri.. Worley, Kenneth L., director, Region 5, UAW.. Yoder, Franklin D., M.D., director of the Illinois Department of Public Zielinski, Raymond S., mayor, City of Bellefontaine Neighbors, Mo--- ADDITIONAL DATA Dialogs: Bob Hardy, KMOX, and Dr. Bertram Carnow, professor of pre- "Do You Want Clean Air?" advertisement, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. Editorials delivered by Robert Hyland, vice president, CBS, and general "Emphysema Profile in Two Mid-Western Cities in North America,' Excerpts from letters received by radio station KMOX, St. Louis, Mo., Fact sheet on air pollution control in St. Louis County- Interim air pollution alert plan for the St. Louis area adopted by the Air Muskie, Hon. Edmund S.: Letter dated October 21, 1969, to Senator National Lead Co. in St. Louis-description_-_ "New Pollution Control Can Pay for Itself," advertisement from St. Louis APPENDIX I: "Opinion Split on Method To Handle Smog Crises," by E. F. Porter, Jr.: Article from St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 12, 1969 APPENDIX II: Air Conservation Law, revised 1967, Missouri Air Conserva- APPENDIX III: Air Quality Standards and Air Pollution Control Regula- tions for the St. Louis Metropolitan Area....... APPENDIX IV: Article from the Wall Street Journal, October 21, 1969, by Thomas Lindley Ehrich, submitted for record by Senator Eagleton____ APPENDIX V: Letters and communications submitted by Senator Eagleton.. AIR POLLUTION-1969 MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1969 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION OF THE St. Louis, Mo. The subcommittee met at 9 a.m. in assembly room No. 1, Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Mo., Senator Thomas F. Eagleton, presiding. Present: Senator Eagleton. Staff present: Leon G. Billings, professional staff member, and Tom C. Jorling, counsel for the minority. Senator EAGLETON. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. The Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Senate Public Works Committee is now in session. I have certain introductory remarks to make before we hear from the witnesses. First off let me introduce the gentlemen to my left and my right. To my left is Mr. Leon Billings who is the professional staff member to the Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution. To my right is Mr. Tom Jorling, the minority counsel to the committee. Senator Ed Muskie, of Maine, who is the chairman of this subcommittee, could not be with us today. He has two bills, of which he is the principal sponsor, on the floor of the U.S. Senate this afternoon and hence his presence is required in Washington. He did write a letter to me expressing his interest in these hearings and I would like to read for the record one paragraph from Senator Muskie's letter dated October 21, 1969. Senator Muskie says: I hope that you will take this opportunity to examine the adequacy of the regional alert system, the progress in developing air quality standards, the extent and value of public participation in developing meaningful air quality goals, the intergovernmental relationship developed to assure effective implementation of air quality standards in a multijurisdictional interstate area, and the need for any additional Federal legislation to assure maximum interim public health protection during the standards development period. I think in that one paragraph Senator Muskie has adroitly summed up some of the key points that we wish to inquire into today, and has by inference addressed himself to some of the key problems which may pertain to air quality control in the St. Louis metropolitan area. The full letter of Senator Muskie will now be made part of the record. (Senator Muskie's letter follows:) (1) |