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Chapter Fifteen — The Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act of Page 



1947 404 



I. Introduction 404 



An overview of public attitudes on pesticide regulation 404 



Trends in scientific agriculture after 1S60 40.') 



Essentiality of pesticides in single-crop farming 406 



Alternatives to chemical control of pests 406 



Federal regulation of agricultural pesticides 407 



The dilemma of pesticide contamination and essentialitj' 40<S 



II. Congressional consideration of pesticide legislation, 1946-47 409 



Hearings on H.R. 1237, the 1947 pesticide bill 410 



Legislative action on H.R. 1237 412 



III. Growing awareness of imjiortant secondary effects of pesticide 



residues 414 



Medical interest in human response to insecticide toxicity. _ 416 



Appearance of "Silent Spring" ; wide impact of its message- _ 417 



IV. Conversion of pesticide issue into the issue of total environmental 



preservation 419 



Resolution of the chemical pesticide issue 421 



Pesticides as one of many pollutants of the environment 424 



Chapter Sixteen — Congressional decisions on water projects 426 



I. Introduction 426 



Growing complexity of water management 427 



II. Evolution of U.S. policy in water resource management 429 



The search for coherence in water planning 432 



Emphasis of Truman administration studies on social goals. 43.5 



Growing importance of qualitative criteria 436 



Allocation of costs and benefits; economic analysis in plan- 

 ning 439 



III. Senate investigation into national water policy 447 



Manning and staffing of the investigation 448 



The time-phased program of committee operation 449 



The fiindings and recommendations of the select committee. 453 



Committee rejection of restrictive cost/effectiveness formulas 456 



IV. Impact of the select committee's report 457 



Easing of departmental criteria for projects 458 



Increased attention of Kennedy administration to water 



research 458 



Coordinated development of drainage system water projects. 460 



V. Observations on the resolution of the water policy issue 463 



PART II 



Summary 



I. Introduction ll.l 473 



The conceptual framework: Decisionmaking in Congress 473 



Congressional management of issues in process 473 



The kinds of information required for decisionmaking 474 



Acceptance of a problem for decisionmaking 474 



Preparation for structuring the problem for decision 474 



Structuring and deciding the issue 475 



Differences between scientific and political decisionmaking 475 



Differences between scientific and political information 475 



Procedures and methodology used in the studj^ 476 



Scientific and political behavior in contrast 479 



