THE NATIONAL RESOURCE INFORMATION ACT

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• Publication Date: May 22, 1974
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May 22, 1974 Approved FocgtAMENIMA19ftakaltiPP7SENA
Cities which will lose Federal sewage works
grants for fiscal year 1975 due to executive
impoundment
[Funds lost in thousands]
Westfield
Lapel
Portland
- Alexandria
? Westport
HaMMOnd
Trail Creek
2794
1239
364
867
33
4050
1425
Scott County RSb
2250
Lebanon
1440
Paoli
eo
French Lick
67
Auburn
930
Greencastle
3310
Orleans
38
E. Barthlomew R$D
3375
Milan
45
Hope
112
Michigan City
2063
Town of Pines
895
Zionsville
38
Trafalgar
450
Redkey
188
Parker City
45
Campbellsburg
81
Selma
749
? Broolwille
Marion
20
Matthews
? 7
Avilla
21
Brennen
027
Jackson Cty. RSD
225
DiIlaboro
14
Huntertown
18
Ingalls
445
EXHIBIT 1
M 10, 1974.
Re Municipal Sewage Works s ants?State
of Indiana.
MT. FRANCIS MAYO, -
Regional Administrator, Env nmental Pro-
tection Agency, Chicag 11.
DEAR MR, MAYO: On M 9, the Indiana
Congressional DelegatM and their aides
met with Lieutenant G ernor Robert Orr
and representatives of e Indiana Stream
Pollution Control Boar discuss problems
that exist with the M cipal Sewage Works
Grant program in In a. Of special con-
cern to us were the p ? lems associated with
the expenditure of remaining $41.3 mil-
lion In FY '73 fed funds that must be
obligated before Ju 30, 1974.
The Stream Pal ? ion Control Board rep-
resentatives descr d 20 projects totalling
less than $26 mill that have met all major
grant requireme and appear likely to re-
ceive a grant be e the June 30, 1974, dead-
line. Eligible cts remain to be developed
for purposes of ncumbering the remaining
$15 million. T remaining 28 communities
on the MPL Sat are listed as eligible for
FY '73 money ppear unlikely to qualify for
any grant ot than step 1 planning money.
Review of t FY '74 MPL through 143 does
not reveal flicient number of communi-
ties that c fully qualify for grants. There-
fore, it is arent that expenditure of the
$41.3 milli within the eligible 143 on the
MPL is ve unlikely.
The re ns for the problems in obtaining
a outride number of eligible projects are
as follow
1. Th -delay in the development of an
approve priority rating system and MPL
for the t program.
2. late (February 11, 1974) publica-
tion nal conetruction grant regulations
and late publication of guidelines for
fac plan preparation and infiltration-
Intl(' _requirements, prohibited an early,
timely response on the part of communities
and consultants.
? There are projects beyond 143 on the L
that have plans and specifications co leted
and are prepared to commence co ? ruction.
It would seem desirable to us to ard grants
to these communities. The communities
would have been funded b on the Board's
original FY '73 MPL. The ? mmunities were
advised of their polluti. control needs la
the plan of implemen ion and proceeded
to qualify for funds direct result of that
requirement. Sever are under Stream Pol-
lution Control B orders and two under
U.S. EPA 180 da- .otice orders. A few com-
munities are u er a sewer ban because of
over loaded t tment plants and develop-
ment has be restricted. The communities
sincerely be ed that they would be funded
and proce d to invest considerable sums
of money engineering. At this time, the
1972 a dments and the subsequently
promu ted regulations resulted in a re-
vised iority rating system.
e are clear Indications that this se-
qu a of events produced significant in-
c. ties. We were advised by the Stream Pol-
on Control Board representatives that
ere are projects beyond position 143 on the
PL that are ready to proceed and should be
considered for available FY '73 grant funds
in priority order. These projects deserve every
consideration.
We urge your reconsideration of the pres-
ent situation which not only penalizes the
citizens of Indiana, but also delays the Im-
plementation of the objectives of the Mu-
nicipal Sewage Works Grant program de-
veloped by the U.S. Congress.
VANCE HARTKE,
BIRCH BATH,
U.S. Senators,
RAY J. MADDEN,
EARL F. LANDGREBE,
JOHN BRADEMAS,
J. EDWARD RousH,
ELWOOD H. Hmids,
WILLIAM G, BRAY,
JOHN T. MYERS,
ROGER H. ZION,
LEE H. HAMILTON,
DAVID W. DENNIS,
WILLIAM H. HIIDNUT III,
Members of Congress.
THE NATIONAL RESOURCE
INFORMATION ACT
Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. President, the
need for decisive action on many short-
age problems and natural resource is-
sues is confronting us now as at no time
in the past. Recent events in the energy
field and with basic industrial materials
have highlighted many other problems
which we will continue to face. For ex-
ample, the expected shortages of food
in many parts of the world?aggravated
by uncertainties over the availability of
fertilizer?must be one of the priority
issues with which all policymakers must
deal, as must be population control
measures. We can no longer afford to
consider these various decisions in isola-
tion from each other.
The recent rejection of the U.S. aid
proposal at the U.N. special session on
Third World resource and economic
problems is unfortunate. Nevertheless,
we must urge that an active Participa-
tion in the formulation of new policies
In these critical areas continue. Our
national self-interest requires that we
insure that these policies are coordinated
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with domestic economic conditions to
avoid negative effects both at home and
abroad. A wheat deal, for example,
should not inevitably result in higher
prices and dislocations in the domestic
economy. Planning ahead and combin-
ing foreign policies with domestic eco-
nomic realities can help to avoid disas-
trous programs, while insuring the maxi-
mum amount of cooperation.
Among Federal agencies, there are ex-
amples of a lack of coordinated policies.
The near-embargo in 1973 of soybean
exports has been criticized by the Gen-
eral Accounting Office as a decision that
ignored consultation between the De-
partment of Commerce and the Depart-
ment of State?resulting in consequences
which counteracted several established
policies. The GAO reported that the soy-
bean embargo worsened an existing
world food shortage, ran counter to
efforts to increase exports, had adverse
effects on the balance of payments, and
also depressed domestic agriculture.
Other such conflicting actions lately
have involved the Agriculture Depart-
ment and the Cost of Living Council in
disagreements over the relative needs for
increasing agricultural exports and the
stabilization of domestic food prices.
The United States must take an active
role in this effort by virtue of our enor-
mous stake in the world community and
the international economy. We have 6
percent of the global population and
consume at least 27 percent of all raw
materials?including 34 percent of the
energy resources. As the world's largest
exporter of food, our policies in part
determine the well-being of millions of
people around the globe, while, on the
other hand, the United States is directly
affected by the export policies of other
nations. Our reliance on foreign sources
for energy and mineral materials has
demonstrated the necessity for coopera-
tive policies. The nations of this world
are becoming increasingly interdepend-
ent so that inflated prices and withheld
supplies have a ripple effect throughout
all economies.
Present shortages result from a com-
bination of at least seven factors:
First, the United States has been rely-
ing increasingly on foreign sources for
petroleum and certain other scarce min-
erals. In the 1970's, growing demand and
worldwide competition for these re-
sources has caused a problem of con-
straints on global supply. The Arab oil
embargo, following the outbreak of war
in the Middle East, in particular,
strained the capacity of U.S. energy in-
dustries to adjust to a very significant
interruption of foreign imports;
Second, the effects of the Arab oil em-
bargo also reduced allocations to users
of petroleum-related products;
Third, some industries, including those
producing metals, petrochemicals, and
textiles, are emerging from a prolonged
period of overcapacity and depressed
prices, which makes them unable to
meet sharply increasing demands;
Fourth, economic price controls were
imposed at a time when some commodity
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prices were at long-term or seasonally
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low levels;
Fifth, demand for durable goods has
been increasing;
Sixth, some 1973 crop yields were lower
than expected, or were limited by acreage
allotments; and
Seventh, exports of many commoditieS
have expanded rapidly duk to favorable
overseas prices.
Proposals before the Congress which
would establish broad policies and a com-
prehensive mechanism for ;averting fu-
ture shortages and resouree crises de-
serve our immediate attentien. The Na-
tional Resource Informaidon System,
which is embodied in Senate bill 3209,
the proposal which I must 'veer for ime
plementing a sophisticated ?and credible
organization to accomplish _the complex
task of monitoring and analyzing our re-
source scarcity problems. As originally
drafted, S. 3209 would establish a Bureau
of Resource Information inathe Depart.;
ment of Commerce. This office was mod-
eled on a similar provision in the Energy
Information Act, which in tarn was pate
terned after the functions c the Bureau
of the Census, as an independent and
highly credible source of ratviata and in-
formation analysis.
However, I have concluded as did Sen-
se
ator NELSON, the sponsor of this Na-
tional Resource Information Act, in re-
cent testimony on the bill, that a new and
altogether independent agency?prefer-
ably one responsible to the Congress?
would be the most effective institutional
setting for such an important function.
Senator NELSON testified ths(t the mission
of this agency would be to monitor the
use of all resources and to. collect data
so that country would know,-
What and when to conserve, jiow much to
produce, how to avoid shorfages or gluts
cauSed by ignorance, and when to begin sig.
nificant research programs.
The report just released bi the General
Accounting Office on the Government's
ability to cope with shortaas concluded
that, for the future, basic commodity
problems 'have not even been adequately
defined, let alone agreed upop." The GAO,
has also tentatively endorsed the idea of
making the agency an independent unit.
An independent agency mould give the
necessary objectivity and integrity to the
gathering of information 'Which would
then be used for determininy policy, not
only by decisionmakers threughout got-
ernment, but in the priVate actor and on
the international level. This common
base of data reporting and statistical
analysis is crucial if we are top make sense
out of the present conflict pf facts and
policies which are often generated for
special purposes or to -suppnrt foregone
conclusions or decisions. Rent criticisni
of the validity of the Consumer Price
Index?CPI?and the Whcdesale Price
Index?WPI?shows them to be exam-
pies of another problem with economic
data.
Many of these problems could be over-
come by a new and independent agency
addressing itself to contemporary and
long-range questions on resource infor-;
mation. A new agency might involve
totally new personnel, or it could take
the form of selected reorganization in
order to create the most effective and
efficient operation. But questions about
organilational arrangements or an af-
finity for exiSting programs should not
obscure our thinking about the?best way
to approach this issue. Although much
useful work is being done on thisnroblem,
our activity has been fragmente4 and tn-
caordinated with regard to infermation
capabilities for planning and policy-
making. Thisehas been documented in the
introductory statement on the National
Resource Information Act. Computer
technoiogy, for instance, is not being
used to its fullest advantage in maintain-
ing and coordinating Government data
gathering programs in the natural re-
source S fielcl, especially for the sharing
of unique or costly informationactivities.
Thus, an information shortage affects
our ability to anticipate, avoid, or man-
age shortages of materials. Too much
confusion, too many conflicting facts and
arguments have slowed our efforts to
come to grips with our current dilemmas
in energsy, environment? and economics.
We clearly do not have the kind of ad-
vance Warning and step-by-step planning
needed for the future.
Coneern over the long-term_ avala-
bility of some commodities focuses on in-
creasing consumption rates worldwide,
when contrasted with decreasing
amounts of known reserves of nonrenew-
able minerals, and the potential threat
of the formation of cartels to withhold
supplias for a variety of reasons. Of the
14 to i8 basic raw materials considered
necessary for an industrial society, the
United States depends on imports for
more than half its supply of six of them:
aluminum; chromium; manganese;
nickel; tin; and zinc, One principal fac-
tor for some imports has been their lower
cost conipared to economically-exploita-
ble resources in the United States.
The U.S. Geological Survey has com-
pleted the first overall assessment of the
Nation's mineral resources in 18 years
and reported a "mineral crisis." Many
known mineral deposits are seriously de-
pleted and future supplies have either
not yet been discovered or are too deep
to be economically mined. Minerals for
which "large" or "huge" resource bases
remain, include iron, coal, uranium, pe-
troleum, aluminum, copper, zinc, lead,
manganese, nickel, gypsum, sulfur, and
molybdenum. "Small" or "insignificant"
reserves are reported for tin, asbestos,
chromium, fluorine, mica, and mercury.
For these and most of the remaining
50 or sio mineral commodities, U.S. abil-
ity to Meet projected needs will depend
on increasingly sophisticated, yet eco-
nomical, technology; recycling and con-
servation in mineral production and use;
and imports. In addition, many minerals
are being lost or wasted because of in-
sufficient economic incentive for their re-
c Wee ry:
The final report of the National Com-
mission on Materials-Policy in June 1973
outlined the following summary direc-
tives fcir policymakers:
First strike a balance between the
need to produce goods and the need to
protect the environment by modifying
the materials system so that all resources,
including environmental, are paid for by
users;
Second, strive for an enuilibrium be-
tween the supply of materials and de-
mand by increasing primary produetion,
by accelerating waste recycling, and im-
proving efficiency-of-use of materials;
and
Third, manage materials policy more
effectively by recognizing the complex
interrelationships of the materials/en-
ergy/environment system so that laws,
executive orders, and administrative
practices reinforce policy and do not
counteract it.
The National Commission's studies re-
veal that?
Extensive interdependence exists among
the nations of the world for raw materials
land that] . . . lrilo major nation nor group
of nations is completely self-sufficient in all
raw materials essential to an industrial Econ-
omy
Using data from the Geological Survey,
the Commission found that domestic
production remains the primary Source
of materials for the United States, al-
though the Commission notes that ix, the
last 20 years the percentages of imports,
In the aggregate, for domestic consump-
tion "have grown slightly" as a percent-
age of domestic consumption. This trend
is anticipated to continue, accordir g to
the report. However, the Commission
recommends relying on market forces to
determine the mix of imports and do-
mestic production, but with the proviso
that?
Where costly and dangerous reliance upon
Imported materials ... the Government-Must
intervene.
Two problems found by the Commis-
sion which are related to the domsstic
minerals posllion of the United Slates
vis-a-vis its Imports are that?the pro-
portion of recycled materials is declining,
and?policy formulation for materials
management Is "handicapped by Made-
_ _
quate, inaccurate, or inaccessible ir f or-
mation."
Population increases indicate a dou-
bling time of about a generation fox the
present population which will necesatate
a doubling of food production in the next
generation unless that growth rate is
reduced.
Otherwise we can anticipate no !solu-
tion whatever. The same spectre son-
fronts us for minerals, fuels, and other
nonrenewable resources; although in this
case, most of the resources are of faille
quantity and eventually will be depleted.
In light of such projections, with their
assumptions Of present rates of increase
and based on known mineral resources,
we cannot sit idly by while such pro-
phesies, if reasonably accurate, arc al-
lowed to fulfill themselves. We cannot
allow it to happen in the absence of an
examination of our consumption and
growth patterns to determine our re-
sponse with new policies designed to meet
such challenges. It Is for these reasons
that I call for urgent action on the Na-
tional Resouree Information Act.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous con-
sent to print information on this issue
in the RECORD..
There being no objection, the material
was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
as follows:
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SELECTED U.S. MATERIALS POSITIONS
Materials (and uses)
Forecast
annual
growth in
demand
Percent of
consume-
tion
imported
Percent of
product
exported
Percent of
consume-
tion
recycled
Materials (and uses)
Forecast
annual
growth in
demand
Percent of
consume-
tion
Imported
Percent of
product
exported
Percent of
consume-
tion
recycled
I. Mica (sheet) (electrical items)
7.0
100
46
0
10. Titanium, rutile (pigments, metals,
2. Platinum group '(alloys and catalysts)_
3.0
100
24
22
ceramics)
5.0
86
1
3. Chromium 1 (alloys, compounds)
Ilmenite
18.0
(a)
. political or environmental uncer-
Sponge
35.0
26
tainty
5.0
100
15
12
11. Asbestos (concrete, tile, abrasives,
4. Strontium .(electronic tubes, fire-
work; zinc refining, ceramics)
5. Cobalt (steel alloys, chemical uses)
4.0
100
(2)
0
insulation)
12. Tin (tinplate, solders, chemical alloys)
heavy reliance on overseas sources
0
85
"
63
0
nickel is substitutable
2.0
98
6