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1 Interior is charged by law with specific respoasibilities 



2 in the field of water pollution control in connection with 



3 pollution of interstate and navigable waters. The Federal 



4 Water Pollution Control Act provides that pollution of 



5 interstate or navigable waters, whether the ooatter 



6 causing or contributing to the pollution is discharged 



7 directly into such waters or reaches such waters after 

 g discharge into a tributary, which endangers the health 

 9 or welfare of any person shall be subject to abateoaent. 



At the first session of this Conference 



11 held January 16 and 17, 1962, the Conferees agreed, among 



12 other things, that the State of Washington and the Federal 



13 water pollution control authorities would develop a joint 



14 program to carry out investigations and studies in the 



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Conference area. As a result, the Washington State 

 Enforcement Project was established to carry out the 

 necessary studies. The joint Federal-State studies were 

 ig carried out over a four -year period, and the project has 



19 prepared a comprehensive report of their findings entitled 



"Pollutional Effects of Pulp and Paper Mill Wastes in 

 Puget Sound". This report has been submitted to the 

 Conferees. This Conference has been reconvened for the 



23 purpose of considering a program of remedial action and 



24 a time schedule for pollution abatement in the Puget 



25 Sound area if such should be appropriate after we have 



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