Brown, Victor, Metropolitan Waste Conversion Corp., Wheaton, Ill... Bruce, Ben, Florida Air and Water Conservation Commission Collins, John C., Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Collins, John F., visiting professor of urban affairs, MIT__ Consulting Engineers Council of Florida..- Daley, Austin, chief, Division of Air Pollution, State of Rhode Island. Davidson, Robert G., Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council.. Dickinson, Walter, councilman, city of Jacksonville.. Digges, Reid W., northeast Florida chapter, Izaak Walton League... English, James S., director of public works, city of Jacksonville- Page First, Dr. Melvin W., associate professor, Harvard School of Public Health. 27, 38 Furman, Prof. Thomas, acting chairman, Department of Environmental Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission.. Hall, Ernest L., consultant_ 276 Harding, Charles I., Reynolds, Smith & Hills, Jacksonville, Fla 310 344, 350 337 291 Huffstutler, K. K., Florida Air and Water Conservation Commission. 174 495 Kerlin, Jim, program director, northeast Florida district, Florida Tubercu- 278 Patton, Vincent D., Florida Air and Water Conservation Commission. Powers, Mrs. James, League of Women Voters of Jacksonville.. Adams, Mrs. Mimi, response to additional questions posed by Senator Air pollution in Florida, status report as of July 1, 1969, by K. K. Huff- 174 American Paper Institute, statement by E. A. Locke, Jr., president... 359 272, 354 Availability, Utilization, and Salvage of Industrial Materials, report.. Boston Metropolitan Area Planning Council-report, Solid Waste Dis- Brown, Victor, Metropolitan Waste Conversion Corp., response to ques- 335 Consulting Engineers Council of Florida, statement by M. Vincent 366 Council, Consolidated City of Jacksonville, statement.. 272 English, James S., director of public works, city of Jacksonville, response 288 Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission: Additional comments on solid waste problems.. Commission meeting-October 30, 1968---- Response to additional questions posed by Senator Randolph... Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, statement.... 356 297 Public health and welfare committee substitute for ordinance 69-484- Response to questions posed by Senator Randolph............. Sath. Thomas P., city engineer, city of Tallahassee, Fla., response to 309 St. Regis Paper Co., news release_- 370 Nsag, Russell H., associate professor, University of Florida, additional 325 Ten of Tarboro, N.C., statement by Miss Ruth Ballard.. Tuberculosis & Respiratory Disease Association of Northeast Florida, Zer, Linda R., Albany, N.Y., statement... RESOURCE RECOVERY ACT OF 1969 THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1969 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON AIR AND WATER POLLUTION, Boston, Mass. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in the city council chambers, city hall, Boston, Mass., Senator Edmund S. Muskie (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Muskie, Randolph, and Montoya. Staff present: Leon G. Billings and Richard D. Grundy, professional staff members. OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR MUSKIE Senator MUSKIE. In 1965 Congress focused on the problem of solid waste for the first time. The Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965 authorized demonstration projects of programs to dispose of solid waste and to encourage the development of new ways to deal with the problem. We now think that the time has come to move beyond experimental research to the actual development of systems in our large metropoli tan areas. It is rather an astounding figure, I think, that this Nation generates about 31 billion tons of solid waste every year. This represents not only a dilution of the environment, the water, the air, and the landape, but it also represents a waste of useful materials. Unless we find some more effective and efficient ways to use, reuse, and recycle these wastes, we are going to waste valuable resources, and we are going to make of the earth a rubbish and garbage dump. With these figures of 31% billion tons a year, we are seeing the landscape littered with more and more evidence of waste. It uses up valuable land and it is something we must do something about. We have chosen the city of Boston as the location for the first of our field hearings because this metropolitan area has developed a regional plan for the handling of solid waste. We want to learn about objectives and lessons that might be useful to the rest of the country. And may I say that it is always a pleasure to be back in Boston. Although the rest of New England is sometimes restive under the dominance of Boston, we appreciate its importance; and frankly, I always feel at home politically in Boston as well as from other points. of view. It is a real pleasure to have among our witnesses this morning two old friends, but maybe I should say one old friend and one new friend: former Mayor Collins and President O'Leary of the Boston City Council. I won't say that anyone here represents the old politics, John. I hope that we evolve different phases of the new politics, first that which we may have been involved in, and the second one that Jerry is involved in. I should also like to present to Boston and to New England the distinguished chairman of the full Senate Committee on Public Works, Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia. I have the privilege of serving as chairman of the Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, but we need the support of the chairman of the full committee. We have read a lot in the press over the years about the ways in which the chairmen of the committees obstruct progress and useful legislation and are against change. Senator Randolph is representative of the new generation of committee chairmen who came to the Senate at the same time I did, although he is senior to me because he took office in the fall of 1958 to fill an unexpired term, whereas I had to wait until January 1959. It has been a real privilege to serve with Senator Randolph during his chairmanship of the Public Works Committee. He has been of tremendous assistance in the development of air and water pollution legislation, and as one of the originators of the Appalachia development program he has been of real support to us in helping us develop the regional commission idea for New England. He has given us his support this year as we seek to expand this program. So, we have every reason to welcome Senator Randolph formally to New England and I would like to present him at this time. Senator? OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR RANDOLPH Senator RANDOLPH. Thank you, Ed. You have indicated that I am cooperative. Certainly I could be no more cooperative than you have been sitting in the seat you occupy, and occupy so well, as chairman of this Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution Control. The figures you cite about the environmental problems that face the people of the United States are startling. We are really threatened with being buried in our own waste. This is not just a trite expression; this is true, because we are producing solid wastes at a rate of 3.5 billion tons a year and this is in the figure for 1967. The 1968 figure will be much more. Agriculture and animal wastes alone are 2 billion tons annually. So, millions of tons of solid waste are being spread as it were into our environment in the period of a year's time. Now, we can't sweep these into a corner and we can't find that quiet sanctuary and say that the problems will be taken care of in time. Mr. Chairman, what you have done, which I applaud you for, and join you in, is your broad, affirmative, frontal attack on these problems. The people of the United States recognize this and have responded. And, as you know, the Congress has responded, not always in the appropriation of the funds, but certainly, in the authorization abilities which have come from your subcommittee and from the Senate Committee on Public Works. So, I join with you today in the first of these rather far-ranging hearings throughout the United States on the solid waste problems that are created by the environment in which we live. Certainly, with |