in their joint efforts to bring to a successful conclusion the recommenda- 

 tions of the conferees. These efforts will include laboratory studies, 

 field investigations and other scientific and related studies to support 

 further the investigations and reports of the Washington Pollution Control 

 Commission that have provided the basis for the actions taken by the State 

 of Washington to control pollution in the waters of Puget Sound and the 

 Strait of Juan de Fuca and their tributaries and estuaries. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE COMMITTEE 



The Technical Coordinating Committee is composed of representatives from 

 State and Federal agencies having scientific or other interests and 

 responsibilities involving water uses affected by the discharge of pollu- 

 tants into the waters under consideration. The Committee includes repre- 

 sentation from the Washington Pollution Control Commission, the Washington 

 Department of Health, the Washington Department of Fisheries, the Washing- 

 ton Department of Game, the Washington Attorney General's Office, the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service and the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and 

 Welfare. Committee recommendations are to be directed to Mr. Earl Coe, 

 Chairman of the Washington Pollution Control Commission, and Director of 

 the Washington State Department of Conservation, Olympia, Washington; and 

 to Mr. Leonard B. Dworsky, Of f icer-in-Charge, Pacific Northwest Water 

 Supply and Pollution Control Program of the Department of Health, Education, 

 and Welfare, Portland, Oregon. Technical direction of the Committee's 

 activities will be guided by Mr. W.W.Towne, Deputy Director of the Pacific 

 Northwest Water Supply and Pollution Control Program, and Mr. Alfred T. 

 Neale, Acting Director of the Washington Pollution Control Commission. The 

 Secretary of the Committee will be Dr. A. F. Bartsch, Chief of Enforcement 

 Activities of the Pacific Northwest Water Supply and Pollution Control 

 Program, Portland, Oregon. 



TENTATIVE STUDY PROGRAM 



The Committee has met three times since the January 16 conference. Plans 

 are under way to initiate studies and investigations along the following 

 lines as a result of the committee's recommendations: engineering surveys 

 relating to the sources of municipal and industrial pollution; related bio- 

 logical and chemical studies of pollutants and the waters into which the 

 pollutants are discharged; oceanographic studies concerned with the dilu- 

 tion and diffusion of pollutants; and economic and legal investigations 

 related to the over-all pollution problem. 



ACTIONS TAKEN TO DATE 



Actions taken to date include the organization of the Coordinating Com- 

 mittee; the determination of the general outline of the ComLiittee's study 

 and investigation program; and the assignment of one of the Public Health 

 Service's chief scientists to provide the on-the-ground coordination to 

 the joint State-Federal investigations program. Dr. A. F. Bartsch, cur- 

 rently Deputy Chief of the U. S. Public Health Service's national research 



