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than a "corridor" needs to be preserved ; clearly it is going to be neces- 

 sary to write the authorizing legislation in such a fashion as to require 

 State and local land use planning to protect the natural beauty in 

 some depth. 



In all these matters, I trust we will act promptly, with wisdom and 

 courage, that those who inherit this land from us will not judge us 

 harshly. 



Representative DINGELL. I would like to conclude with a few re- 

 marks of my own. I suspect everyone in this room has reason to 

 judge our forebears very harshly for the mess they left us. The fact 

 we have what we have remaining to us in this country is attributed to 

 the Almighty who bestowed on our forebears not very long past one 

 of the most bounteous lands as has yet been found by mankind. 

 There remains both little time and little in the way of resources to 

 preserve it. 



Mr. Dworsky said we should plan for secondary treatment of our 

 pollution. As one from the Congress who has worked on this sub- 

 ject, I would like to comment briefly. There are some specific 

 legislative proposals pending before the Congress which would in- 

 crease the amount of Federal grants to be supported by State and 

 local matching funds for sewage treatment works from $ 1 00 million 

 to $150 million; which would provide for the use of subpoena in 

 water pollution abatement; and which would establish either water 

 pollution criteria for the States in the House bill, which is deficient 

 in this particular, or Federal water pollution standards in the Sen- 

 ate bill, which is a superior proposal. Mr. Dworsky seems to have 

 come forward with what may well be a very useful resolution to the 

 problem that exists between the House and Senate with regard to 

 this particular bill. 



The issue that I choose to take with Mr. Dworsky is that we are 

 going to find by the year 2000 that secondary treatment is not ade- 

 quate. We will find in most instances that secondary treatment in 

 the immediate, foreseeable future is going to leave such a bountiful 

 supply of phosphate and nitrates that waters are going to be subject 

 to noxious algal growth. There are right now plants in existence 

 whose effluent can be drunk safely and which contribute a minimum 

 amount of algal growth. Indeed, there is one in the Eastern United 

 States which runs right into a reservoir of one of our major cities 

 with no hazard either to the quality of the reservoir or ultimate purity 

 of the water that comes out of the tap. 



