CONTENTS CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1969-WASHINGTON, D.C. Boggs, Hon. J. Caleb, a Senator in Congress from the State of Delaware_ Randolph, Hon. Jennings, a Senator from the State of West Virginia___ Finch, Hon. Robert H., Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, accompanied by: Hon. Lewis H. Butler, Assistant Secre- tary for Planning and Evaluation; C. C. Johnson Jr., Administrator, Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service; and Richard Vaughan, Director, Bureau of Solid Waste Management__. Dole, Hon. Hollis W., Assistant Secretary for Mineral Resources, Depart- ment of Interior; accompanied by John O'Leary, Director, Bureau of Mines; and David D. Dominick, Commissioner, Federal Water Pollution WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1969-WASHINGTON, D.C. Heffner, Dr. Hubert, Deputy Director, Office of Science and Technology; accompanied by Dr. John Buckley, chairman, Committee on Environ- Tribus, Dr. Myron, Assistant Secretary, Science and Technology, Com- merce Department; accompanied by Dr. Gardner Derrickson, Business Bayley, Ned D., Director of Science and Education, U.S. Department of THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1969-WASHINGTON, D.C. Redmond, Col. John, Chairman of the Environmental Pollution Control Committee, Department of Defense; accompanied by Frank R. Heller, Corps of Engineers; Lt. Comdr. Philip J. Parisius, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; and Harvey L. Segal, Department of the Air FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1969-WASHINGTON, D.C. Thompson, Theos J., Commissioner, Atomic Energy Commission; accom- panied by Walter Belter, Research and Development on Waste Dis- posal, Atomic Energy Commission... Eastlund, Bernard, Division of Research, Atomic Energy Commission... TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1969-DETROIT, MICHIGAN Cavanagh, Hon. Jerome, mayor, city of Detroit, Mich., accompanied by Robert Roselle, commissioner, Department of Public Works... Roselle, Robert, commissioner, Department of Public Works, Detroit, Vogt, John E., chief, division of engineering, Department of Public Health, State of Michigan, Lansing, Mich., accompanied by Fred B. Kellow, chief, environmental health planning unit, division of engineering, Michigan Department of Public Health Tripp, Robert L., Wayne County supervisor, Wayne County, Mich......... Turner, E. Robert, executive director, Southeast Michigan Council of Page 1238 Reid, Paul, planning division, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments.. 1241 Brown, Robert M., president, National Sanitation Foundation, Ann 1244 Brown, Frederick L., president, Michigan United Conservation Clubs (MUCC) 1337 Pankowski, Theodore, assistant director of the Department of Conserva- A panel composed of A. R. Balden, waste treatment specialist, Chrysler A panel composed of Donald Mahler, vice president, Morrow Steel Co., 1342 1345 Bingham, Edward R., director of quality and environmental control, Burlingame, Richard, director of research, Lurai Bros., & Co., Shaker 1363 1368 1377 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES AND STATEMENTS A panel composed of A. R. Balden. waste treatment specialist, Chrysler Bayley, Ned D., Director of Science and Education, U.S. Department of Bingham, Edward R., director of quality and environmental control, White 1345 993 1377 520, 1170 1337 1244 Boggs, Hon. J. Caleb, a U.S. Senator from the State of Delaware___ Brown, Robert M., president, National Sanitation Foundation, Ann Buckley, Dr. John L., chairman, Committee on Environmental Quality. Cavanagh, Hon. Jerome, mayor, city of Detroit, Mich., accompanied by Dominick, Hon. David D., Commissioner, Federal Water Pollution Control Eagleton, Hon. Thomas F., member of Subcommittee on Air and Water Heffner, Dr. Hubert, Deputy Director, Office of Science and Technology; Ingraham, Hollis S., M.D., commissioner of health, Department of Health, Kletter, Harry, president, Industrial Services of America, Inc., Louisville, 604 1368 1192 525 574 587 1191 1058 527 599 1415 1171 A panel composed of Donald Mahler, vice president, Morrow Steel Co., 1363 Pankowski, Theodore, assistant director of the Department of Conserva- ments.. Romney, Hon. George, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Roselle, Robert, commissioner, department of public works, Detroit, Thompson, Theos J., Commissioner, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Tribus, Dr. Myron, Assistant Secretary, Science and Technology, Com- Tripp, Robert L., Wayne County supervisor, Wayne County, Mich.. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc., questionnaire Bingham, Edward R., director, quality control, White Pine Copper Co., Bowman, Vernon D., president, Bowman Enterprises, Inc., Baltimore, Md., Brown, Robert M., president, National Sanitation Foundation, Ann Collection and disposal of solid waste, table. Page 1342 1412 520 999 1241 517 1194 1029 813 1230 1238 1200 1413 1025 1354 1408 1021 1179 1334 1384 1008 "Combustion Power Unit-400-CPU 400," a technical abstract prepared by staff of Combustion Power Co., Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., for the Bureau of Solid Waste Management, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare___ Dillingham Corp.: Excerpts from preliminary summary of study for Bu- "Environmental Pollution," by Robert U. Ayres and Allen V. Kneese, 535 1016 690 817 1037 Guida, Bartholemew F., president, New Haven Board of Aldermen, 1411 1411 Hilbert, Morton S., chairman, Department of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, the University of Michigan, letter to Senator Page Muskie, dated October 24, 1969. 1411 Hill, Dr. Richard F., president, NEREUS Corp., Narragansett, R.I., comments on S. 2005 1176 Housing projects, list submitted to HEW by DOD. 1006 "Iron & Steel Scrap-Consumption Problems," U.S. Department of Commerce, March 1966___ 877 Land fill in the Tobico State game area: illustration__. 1341 McFeggan, James, superintendent of public works, city of Rolling Meadows 1177 Military construction program, table_ 1009 Military installations, list submitted to HEW by DOD for study of solid waste disposal practices___. 1005 "Motor Vehicle Abandonment in U.S. Urban Areas," U.S. Department of Commerce, March 1967... 929 Suggested State legislation.. 972 "New Developments in Radioactive Waste Management," paper presented at 15th annual meeting of American Nuclear Society, June 15-19, 1969, Seattle, Wash.... New incinerator at Corps of Engineers marine facility at Caven Point, N.J., description of.... "Policies for Solid Waste Management,” paper prepared by Ad Hoc Com- Roselle, Robert, commissioner, Department of Public Works, Detroit, Solid waste programs of the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau "Summary of Investigation and Research by the Department of the "The Fusion Torch-Closing the Cycle From Use to Re-Use", by Bernard Turner, E. Robert, executive director, Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, Detroit, Mich., answers to questions submitted by subcommittee. 1039 1012 522 1349 1199 1059 582 1027 577 1245 1075 611 1236 "Use and Disposal of Single-Use Items in Health Care Facilities," monograph No. 6, a report of a national conference of the National Sanitation_. 1243 1269 Vogt, John E., chief, Division of Engineering, Department of Public Health, State of Michigan, answers to questions submitted by subcommittee.. 1210 Weldon Spring Plant, St. Charles County, Mo., information presented. 1051 1172 RESOURCE RECOVERY ACT OF 1969 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1969 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 4200, New Senate Office Building, Senator Edmund S. Muskie (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Muskie, Randolph, Eagleton, Boggs, Cooper, Baker, and Dole. Also present: Richard B. Royce, chief clerk and staff director; M. Barry Meyer, counsel; Bailey Guard, assistant chief clerk (minority); Leon G. Billings, and Richard D. Grundy, professional staff members; and Tom Jorling, counsel (minority). Senator MUSKIE. The committee will be in order. I have a brief opening statement which I will read in order to set this hearing in the proper context or at least I hope it is in the proper context. OPENING STATEMENT Senator MUSKIE. Today the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution continues its hearings on the Nation's solid waste disposal problem. Today, also, marks the beginning of hearings by the subcommittee on S. 2005, the Resource Recovery Act of 1969. This Nation has a critical solid waste disposal problem. Solid waste is the byproduct of our consumption-it is litter carelessly thrown on the roadside-it is the garbage of our kitchens the slag heaps from smelters the timber cleared for land development-the leftovers of domestic, commercial, and industrial consumption. As in the case with other sectors of our economy, we are increasing our capacity to produce wastes. We have made a beer can which will last for generations. We have developed plastics, containers, and wrappers which will last as long. We have learned to coat our paper products and chemically treat them so they degrade more slowly. At the same time we have developed and sold the concept of single use. There is no returnable or reusable beer can. Chemically treated paper and most aluminum and glass products are designed to discard. Economic substitutes are available. As a nation we can take credit for eliminating return bottles and for achieving a point where the cost of repair of an obsolete appliance usually exceeds the value of the appliance, as my wife points out to me frequently. But as a nation we can no longer afford this attitude. We are a resource-scarce nation with a limited land and air supply. No one has manufactured new land recently. No one has manufactured any new minerals recently. No one has manufactured any new air recently. |