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OCR Page 1 of 152ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
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granted to continue these. There is an appreciable gain to be made,
however, from further stimulus of research on means to reduce air
pollution. We recommend that the Clean Air Act be amended to
authorize the Secretary of HEW to make grants and contracts to
public and private agencies, institutions, and organizations in an
amount not to exceed 75% of the cost of any project which will
demonstrate a new or improved method for the prevention or control
of air pollution. The purpose of this amendment is to accelerate the
process of securing the application of new knowledge concerning air
pollution control technology resulting from research and development
effort.
Examples of the type of situations to which this grant
authority would apply include improved procedures for the control
of pollutant emissions from municipal incinerators or for such in-
dustry applications as removal of sulfur compounds from combustion
gases.
Additional enforcement authorities for control of air
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pollution are necessary; we recommend that the new procedures
proposed for strengthening enforcement of water pollution controls
be extended to air pollution as well. In particular, the Secretary
of HEW should be authorized to eliminate, at his discretion, the
initial step in the abatement procedure (i. e., the conference) and
to proceed directly with a public hearing on the problem. The
effect of this amendment would be to accelerate the abatement pro-
cedure and thus to promote a more rapid resolution of the problem.
There should be some provision for the right of entry by Federal
representatives to private premises on which are located signi-
ficant sources of pollution subject to abatement action. In the
absence of specific authorizations for entry public authorities, in
many instances, have no means of measuring the pollutant dis-
charges or of determining what control actions should be required.
Additional authorization can be made to extend coopera-
tion between Federal and local authorities when air pollution problems
encompass large geographical areas. We recommend the formation
of joint Federal - State authorities on an "air shed" basis. This would
authorize the Secretary of HEW, with one or more states, to form
authorities with jurisdiction over areas deemed to share a common
air supply and with authority to develop areawide air pollution pro-
grams.
ADMINISTRATIVELY CONFIDENTIAL
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