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technical supplement has very recently been published. I would 

 suggest that, while this study will not give an answer to all the ques- 

 tions raised here, it might have some value to those of you who are 

 in urban areas. 



I think urban renewal will be of great help in making waterfront 

 land available in the centers of cities and perhaps it will release pres- 

 sure on other land. 



The second point I will make very quickly is that in our State, in 

 local and regional planning, we are putting a good deal of emphasis 

 on prohibition of dumping on shorelines these days and trying to keep 

 trash out of flood plains. 



ROBERT H. EYRE. I am interested in knowing if, in any of the 

 laws proposed, there is any incentive for existing industry or rail- 

 roads which adjoin the waterfront to abandon trackage or allow ease- 

 ments to make the shoreline available. 



Is there something in the law that Mr. Wirth and Mrs. Bolton 

 proposed that does not already exist? 



Mr. FEISS. I know of nothing in the proposed legislation that 

 would cover these particular points. It is very important that they 

 be added because we do have, just as I mentioned earlier in respect 

 to the Delaware River Basin, serious blight in what might be called 

 nonurban areas caused by bad waterfront conditions, abandoned 

 railroad tracks, and so on. This would be a very useful addition to 

 the legislation. 



FRANK GREGG. Do you want to address yourselves to the differ- 

 ence between the Senate and House versions of amendments to the 

 Federal Water Pollution Act which are now pending? You will 

 recall that the Senate version responds to the President's request for 

 a broader, stronger Federal program of upgraded water quality stand- 

 ards. Many of us have some doubts that the House version does, 

 and I think it would be ironic and most unfortunate if this conference 

 did not strongly support the President by addressing itself to the 

 basic issues posed by the two bills. 



DAVID BROWER. In San Francisco we are rilling the bay, as you 

 have heard. Nearby we have wrecked mile after mile of streams in 

 the process of taking out the redwoods. Where once we had a herit- 

 age, we now have nothing. Everything is going. 



Wilderness was not on the agenda for this conference and we 

 understand why. However, since wilderness is one of the places 



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