WE MUST NOT FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

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• Publication Date: April 27, 1967
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1lVt;t(I?:i,~it 11'dl4t, I( ((iltO !NA~i' , April 2lt., 1967
l\ir. RANDOLPHI. Mr. President, I
send to the desk an amendment to
amendment No. 154 which I proposed
earlier this month as an amendment to
S. 780, the Air Quality Act of 19'67.
The measure which I now recommend
would authorize the Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare to establish Re-
gional Air Quality Commissions in inter-
state regions. This measure differs from
Section 108 as proposed in S. 780 in three
major respects.
First, my proposal would, I believe,
provide for more effective local and State
participation and thus more cooperation
between levels of government.
Second, the proposed amendment
Banking and Currency will hold a hear-
ing on Tuesday, April 25, 1967, on the
nomination of William W. Sherrill, of
Texas, to be a member of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys-
tem.
The hearing will commence at 9:30
a.m. in room 5302, New Senate Office
Building.
Persons desiring to testifying or to
submit statements in connection with
this nomination should notify Mr. Lewis
G. Odom, Jr., staff director, Senate Com-
mittee on Banking and Currency, room
5300, New Senate Office Building, Wash-
ington, D.C., telephone [phone].
maximum p t' ie. Iihn of the public 11011101
from air pollutants of any kind. There-
fore, I repeat It is essential that we im-
nu'cii,ately unr;agc in a crash development
ln?ogr;tanr to provide technically and eco-
iiomlcally tc :cubic methods of controlling
:!ulfur (missions from fuels combustion.
I welcome the President's support in this
matter and I congratulate him for this
demonstr..ble evidence of his desire to
secure c::ective air pollution control
without undue economic dislocation. If
the chairman of the subcommittee, Sen-
ator MusKIE, were here today, he would
fully endorse this position.
There being no objection, the letter
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION,
AND WELFARE, '
The PRESIDENT,
U.S. Scviatc,
Washhington, D.C.
DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: The Air Quality Act
of 1067, transmitted to the Congress on
January 30, 1967 and now being considered
by the Congress, is a matter of highest prior-
ity, if we are to continue the battle for clean
air. It represents our concern for the serious
threat to American health caused by polluted
air.
Since the transmittal of the President's
Message on "Protecting Our National Herit-
age," several events have occurred which
make it necessary to accelerate the attack on
one of the major air contaminants requir-
Ing more complete control--sulfur oxide.
The recently published "Air Quality Cri-
teria for Sulfur Oxides," the recommenda-
tions of the conferees in the New York-New
Jersey abatement action, and other findings
and conclusions of prominent scientists, lead
us to the inescapable conclusion that we'
must move more rapidly and effectively in re-
ducing the levels of sulfur now present in
the atmosphere over many of our metropol-
itan areas.
At the same time, it has become obvious
that present technology is inadequate to deal
fully with all aspects of the sulfur problem.
While it is true that selection of low-sulfur
fuels for use in certain critical areas will offer
a temporary solution, it is clear that we must
substantially accelerate our research and de-
velopment activities in three major areas:
1) Removal of sulfur from fuels, 2) process
removal of sulfur from burning fuels, and
3) control of sulfur gases in the stack. Sov-
eral promising approaches are available, and
more rapid development to full-scale ap-
plication is necessary.
We have discussed this problem with rep-
resentatives of the coal and oil industries
and with interested Federal agencies. We are
all in agreement with the vital importance
of an expanded and accelerated research and
development program.
I am therefore recommending that the
proposed Air Quality Act of 1967 be amended
to increase the authorization for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1068, from $84 million to
5:99 million; the additional $15 million would
be made available for research and develop-
ment in control of sulfur omissions from
fuels.
Enclosed is an amendment to the proposed
Air Quality Act of 1967 to carry out this rec-
ommendation.
We are advised by the Bureau of the
Budget that enactment of the Air Quality
Act of 1967 with this amendment would be
In Record with the program of the President.
would invest the Commission itself with .
more authority by providing that the NOTICE OF HEARINGS ON FEDERAL
Commission. rather than the Secretary,7 JURY SELECTION BILLS (S. 383, S.
would make the final determination re- 384, S. 385, S. 386, S. 387, S. 989, S.
garding the air quality standards of the 1319)
region.
Third, the proposed amendment sub-
stitutes for the cease and desist author-
ity of the Commission which would be
authorized by S. 780 the same enforce-
ment procedure that is involved in abate-
ment of interstate pollution In other sec-
tions of the Air Quality Act. In the ab- . proved judicial machinery for the sclec-
sence of compelling reasons for such an' tion of Federal juries.
extension. of the Federal authority-
which reason have not yet been advanced
by administration witnesses in our hear-
ings-I feel it is the prudent thing to
retain a uniform procedure in all inter-
state pollution abatement actions.
The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. BAYH
in the chair). The amendments-Nos.
174 and 175=will be received, referred to
the Committee on Public Works, and will
be printed.
AMENDMENT OF CLEAN AIR ACT-
AMENDMENTS
AMENDMENT NO. 174
Mr. RANDOLPH submitted an amend-
ment, intended to be proposed by him,
to the amendment No. 154, intended to
be proposed by himself, to the bill (S.
780) to amend the Clean Air Act to im-
prove and expand the authority to con-
duct or assist research relating to air
pollutants, to assist in the establishment
of regional air quality commissions, to
authorize establishment of standards ap-
plicable to emissions from establish-
ments engaged in certain types of in-
dustry, to assist in establishment and
maintenance of State prograrns for an-
nual inspections of automobile emission
control devices, and for other purposes,
which was referred to the Committee on
Public Works and ordered to be printed.
Ai.9ZNnnENT 1,75
Mr. RATTPi.i..PF. (fur himself, Mr.
MUSKIE, and Mr, CoocLa) submitted an
amendment, intended to be proposed by
them, jointly, to Senate bill 780, supra,
which was :referred to the Committee on
Public Works and ordered to be printed.
Mr. TYDINGS. Mr. President, as
chairman of the Judiciary Committee's
Subcommittee on Improvements in Ju-
dicial Machinery, I wish to announce a
hearing for the consideration of S. 383,
S. 384, S. 385, S. 386, S. 387, S. 989, and
The hearing will be held at 2 p.m. on
Tuesday; May 2, 1967, in the District of
Columbia hearing room, room 6226, New
Senate Office Building.
Any person who wishes to testify or
submit a statement for inclusion in the
record should communicate as soon as
possible with the Subcommittee on Im-
provements in Judicial Machinery, room
6306, New-Senate Office Building.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
A message from the House of Repre-
sentatives, by Mr. Hackney, one of its
reading clerks, announced that the House
had passed, without amendment, the
joint resolution (S.J. Res. 49) to desig-
nate April 28-29, 1967, as "Rush-Bagot
Agreement Days."
ADDRESSES, EDITORIALS, ARTI-
CLES, ETC., PRINTED IN THE AP-
PENDIX
On request, and by unanimous consent,
addresses, editorials, articles, and so
forth; were ordered. to be printed in the
Appendix, as follows:
By Mr. MORTON:
Editorial entitled "Shortsighted View of
Trade," published in Life magazine of April
7, 1967.
By Mr. MUNDT :
Article entitled "Stubble Mulching Against'
the Wind," written by Walter N. Parmeter,
and published in the magazine Soil Conser-
vation for April 1967.
WE MUST NOT FIGHT' FIRE WITH
FIRE
Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, an
NOTICE OF .HEARING ON NOMTNA- article by the chairman of the Cora nit-
tee on Foreign Relations
the Senator
,
TION OF WILLIAM W. SIIERR:ILL,
Secretary. OF TEX,9S, TO BE A MEMBER OF from Arkansas [Mr. FULDRIGIIT], ap-
THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF geared in the New York Times on Sun-
_AMENDMENT To DRAFT BILL, THE AIR QUALITY THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM day, April 23, 1967. It is a most thought-
Acs' or 1067 - ful and searching inquiry into the ideo-
In section 7, strike out "84,000,000" and in- Mr. SPARIXMAN. Mr, President, I logical approach of the United States to
sort in lieu thereo ?99,0{1 ,000", wish announce that the (' onimittea forei n 1 y t r ion 1 nvolve-
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