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Memo from State Water Quality Standards Legislative News Report - August 1970 (Nan Lowers & Alice Scott) News from the Environmental Study Committee Analysis of Ballot Issue - Constitutional Amendment: BOE National Program |
Water Quality StandardsIn January, 1968 the State Department of Health adopted WATER QUALITY STANDARDS and control regulations that met with the approval of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. The League likes to think we were influential in helping formulate those regulations after months of attending hearings. Now we need to be influential in helping enforce those standards. Unfortunately the State government through the Department of Health has been slow to act; permits to polluters have yet to be issued; abatement schedules have passed with no action taken. In this political year it would be timely to remind our congressional delegation of the States lack of progress. Please take pen in hand and fire a letter, postcard, or note to Senators Hiram Fong. and Daniel Inouye; and to Representatives Patsy Mink and Spark Matsunaga. Federal inquiry may light a fuse under the State. Here are a few questions to start you off:
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