tion control. A flexible act, it would permit one-year exemptions in cases where violators would suffer “unreasonable hardships." Other areas such as the New York-New Jersey region and the State of California have moved ahead with much more detailed plans for air pollution controls. It is time Washington recognized that the absence of steel mills or oil refineries here does not mean its atmosphere is or will remain safe to breathe. AMEND STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS HEARING BEFORE SUBCOMMITTEE NO. 1 OF THE COMMITTEE ON NINETIETH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 6527, H.R. 6678 and H.R. 11544 TO AMEND THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IN CERTAIN CIVIL ACTIONS OCTOBER 2, 1967 Printed for the use of the Committee on the District of Columbia LAW LIBRARY NOV 14 1967 BERKELEY U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1967 84-854 I !! South Carolina, Chairman WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois ABRAHAM J, MULTER, New York ÁLVIN E. O'KONSKI, Wisconsin JOHN DOWDY, Texas WILLIAM H. HARSHA, Ohio BASIL L. WHITENER, North Carolina CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland B, F. SISK, California, FRANK HORTON, New York CHARLES C. DIGGS, JR., Michigan JOEL T. BROYHILL, Virginia G. ELLIOTT HAGAN, Georgia LARRY WINN, JR., Kansas DON FUQUA, Florida GILBERT GUDE, Maryland DONALD M. FRASER, Minnesota JOHN M, ZWACH, Minnesota SAM STEIGER, Arizona JAMES T. CLARK, Clerk . .: SUBCOMMITTEE No. 1 THOMAS G, ABERNETHY, Mississippi, Chairman CHARLES McC, MATHIAS, JR., Maryland DONALD M. FRASER, Minnesota JOEL T. BROYHILL, Virginia ANDREW JACOBS, JR., Indiana 14. LARRY WINN, JR., Kansas, CONTENTS H. R. 6527 (McMillan, by request), a bill to amend Tit. 12, D.C. Code, to to provide a limitation of actions for actions arising out of death or injury caused by a defective or unsafe improvement to real property.. H.R. 6678 (Broyhill, by request), identical bill.. H.R. 11544 (Mathias), identical bill.- American Institute of Architects, Inc., Washington-Metropolitan Chapter, Committee on Statute of Limitations: Schnabel, Robert, Acting Counsel. Broyhill, Hon. Joel T., a Representative in Congress from the State of Consulting Engineers Council of Metropolitan Washington: Keller, Howard L., President-- Lunch, Milton F., General Counsel District of Columbia Government, William A. Robinson, Assistant Corpo- ration Counsel. Czernowski, Alexander J., Secretary-Treasurer. , Chairman, Law and Legislation Committee. request) on Mathias, Hon. Charles McC., a representative in Congress frowi Victor O. Schinnerer Company, Inc., J. Sprigg Duvall, Assistant Vice Washington Building Congress, Inc., John J. McDermott, President--- 29 MATERIALS SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD American Institute of Architects, Inc.: Potomac Valley Chapter of Maryland, Theodore R. Cromar, Jr., Washington-Metropolitan Chapter, Thomas J. Stohlman, President, letter dated July 18, 1967 to Chairman Abernethy- Associated Builders & Contractors, Inc., Metropolitan Washington Chap- ter, George J. Quinn, member Board of Directors, statement- Consulting Engineers Council of the United States, Donald A. Buzzell, Executive Director, statement.-- District of Columbia Government, Hon. Walter N. Tobriner, President, Board of Commissioners, letter dated September 28, 1967, to Chairman McMillan reporting on proposed legislation. D.C. Society of Professional Engineers, Leslie F. Weaver, President, Drayer, Donald Hudson, letter dated August 22, 1967, to Chairman Edmund W. Dreyfuss and Associates, William E. Henry, Registered Architect, letter dated August 22, 1967, to Chairman McMillan. McLeod, Ferrara & Ensign; Richard J. Passantino, letter dated August 16, Mercier, Sanders, Baker & Schnabel, Robert V. Schnabel, letter dated October 4, 1967, to the clerk.- 41 |