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1 probably indicates how prophetic that court w a a . 



2 We have had, not Involving the Federal Government for- 



3 tunately, court cases, and I don't know that that solved 



4 I the probletn. We do have a cooperative study program 



5 which is nearlng completion and has been completed now. 

 5 I hope this will be the fruitful way of getting at the 

 7 problem, as the Supreme Court saw as far back as more 



g than 45 years ago. 



9 We strongly support the conference tech- 



10 nique and we measure our success by the problems which 



11 are solved at the conference table rather than in court. 



12 As specified in Section 10 of the Federal 



13 Water Pollution Control Act, the official water pollution 



14 control agency of Washington has been notified of this 



15 Conference. Washington is being represented by Mr. Roy 



16 Harris, of the Washington State Pollution Control Com- 



17 mission. 



18 The Federal Conferee is Mr. Richard 



19 Poston, of the Pacific Northwest Region of the Federal 



20 Water Pollution Control Administration, United States 



21 Department of the Interior. 



22 My name is Murray Stein. I am from Head- 



23 quarters of the Federal Water Pollution Control Adminis- 



24 tration in Washington, D.C., and the representative of 



25 Secretary Udall. 



