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made, to lay a basis for future action by all parties 

 concerned, and to give the State, localities and indus- 

 tries an opportunity to take any indicated remedial 

 action under State and local law. 



The Conference technique is rather an old 

 one. It is used by many State agencies in the normal 

 conduct of their business in the field of water pollution 

 control. And I have known the operations of the State of 

 Washington for many years. I know Roy Harris and his 

 predecessors have used the Conference technique very 

 effectively themselves in the past. 



The Conference system was proposed by the 

 United States Supreme Court as long ago as 1921, in the 

 famous case of New York against New Jersey, involving 

 interstate pollution. I would like to quote briefly from 

 this opinion. This is the court speaking. 



"We cannot withhold the suggestion, in- 

 spired by the consideration of this case, that the grave 

 problem of sewage disposal by the large and growing popu- 

 lation living on the shores of New York Bay is one more 

 readily to be most wisely solved by cooperative study 

 and by conference and by mutual concession on the part of 

 representatives of the States so vitally interested in it 

 than by proceedings in any court however constituted." 



I think our situation in Puget Sound 



