WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS NINETIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON THE NEED TO ESTABLISH AN IMPORTANT NATIONAL 95-825 MAY 22, JUNE 3, JULY 9 AND 10, 1968 Printed for the use of the Committee on Public Works U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1968 RICHARD B. ROYCE, Chief Clerk and Staff Director BAILEY GUARD, Assistant Chief Clerk (Minority) JOSEPH F. VAN VLADRICKEN, LEON G. BILLINGS, J. B. HUYETT, JR., Dr. Harold Gershinowitz, Chairman, Environmental Studies Board of the Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, Chairman, accompanied by Joseph A. Lieberman, Prof. R. Buckminster Fuller, Southern Illinois University. Dr. William H. Johnston, Director of Research, Scientific Research Instruments Corp-- TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1968 Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Science and Technology, Rolf Eliassen, professor of environmental engineering, Stanford Univer- Russell E. Train, president, Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1968 Dr. John T. Middleton, Commissioner, National Air Pollution Control Richard D. Vaughan, Chief, Solid Wastes Program, National Center for ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES AND STATEMENTS Bennett, Ivan L., Office of Science and Technology, Executive Office of the President_ Eliassen, Rolf, Stanford University 139, 147 Fuller, R. Buckminster, Southern Illinois University. 42, 55 2 Gridley, John C., representing the National Association of Counties.. 166 70, 86 36 Meyer, Col. Alvin F., Jr., U.S. Air Force.. 212 Middleton, John T., Commissioner, National Air Pollution Control 174 Rafton, Harold R., Andover, Mass.. 93 Seaborg, Glenn T., Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission. 36 156 Vaughan, Richard D., Department of Health, Education, and Welfare....... 184 198 ADDITIONAL DATA SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD Appendix: 3. Roger Revelle, "The Quality of the Human Environment," from a 4. Glenn T. Seaborg, Testimony before the United States Senate 5. Athelstan Spilhaus, "Waste Management and Control," Scientist 7. J. R. Pierce, "When Is Research the Answer" Science 159:1079– 8. Federal Council for Science and Technology, "Annual Report on 9. Demonstration Project Abstracts-Solid Wastes Program... 11. State-Interstate Solid Waste Planning Grant Listing. Page 243 245 247 263 291 297 303 305 315 345 375 12. Summaries of Research and Training Grants in Solid Waste Dis- 385 13. National Society of Professional Engineers, statement entitled, 435 Articles: "What Quality of Environment Do We Want?", by R. Buckminster 55 Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology, report entitled, "Fiscal Year 1967 and 1968 Federal Expenditures on Research, Development, and Demonstration Related to Pollution". 114 Meyer, Alvin F., Jr., colonel, U.S. Air Force, exhibits to prepared statements: Hill, Lister, U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama; chairman, U.S. Sen ate Committee on Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, letter from Senators Randolph, Muskie, and Cooper_ 182 Abstracts of Research Projects. 228 Chapter 7. Garbage and Refuse Disposal-TM 5-283-AFM 90-5- 219 History of Repairs and Utilities, 1939–45. 215 Navy Steam Generating Refuse Disposal Plant at Naval Station, 227 Section VII. Refuse Collection and Disposal-War Department 217 226 Waterborne Garbage Disposal, a Case of Waste Management_ _ President's Science Advisory Committee, recommendations on environmental pollution, entitled, "Restoring the Quality of Our Environ ment". 5 Rafton, Harold R., Andover, Mass., letter and statement submitted to 93 |