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many other cities and towns. Yet, I understand the Federal Govern- 

 ment is subsidizing sanitation programs for areas like Huntington, 

 W. Va., and Milwaukee, Wis., that have been notorious in polluting 

 our streams and lakes without regard for the well-being of others. 



Mr. PYLES. One brief comment. By a study in depth, I mean 

 a team study which would be set up in each State which would be 

 composed of engineers, soil scientists, hydrologists, foresters, or ecolo- 

 gists. We proposed such a study in Indiana. The administration 

 opposed it this year, and it was not approved by the legislature. 



KENNETH L. SCHELLIE. I would like to refer to comments Mr. 

 Davison made about the work being done by the sand and gravel 

 producers. They have created, as many of you know, some very 

 fine reclamation projects which have produced some of the finest 

 recreational areas in the country, many of them water-oriented. I 

 would also like to point out that the increasing difficulties of opening 

 up new extractive pits in our metropolitan centers has created some 

 serious problems for the industry. 



It has occurred to us that there appeared to be a common ground, 

 whereby the need for outdoor recreation space, open space, active 

 recreation use space, and the needs of industry in producing sand and 

 gravel close to their markets create a common situation of interest, 

 both to the industry, the Nation, and to the people interested in 

 recreation. 



Therefore, we have entered into some discussions with the Bu- 

 reau of Outdoor Recreation regarding a program which will be un- 

 dertaken jointly by the industry and the Bureau to encourage this type 

 of operation at urban centers, meeting the growing metropolitan 

 need of America, both from the standpoint of a building material 

 and the need for more recreation space at those locations. 



MAURICE BARB ASH. I would like to address myself to a problem 

 we have had in Long Island for the past few months, where a major 

 sand and gravel concern attempted to win approval for a mining 

 project along one of the most beautiful bluffs overlooking Long 

 Island Sound, in the Wading River area of the north shore of Long 

 Island. The proposal was made then, as has been made by Mr. 

 Davison, Mr. Collins, and other speakers, that the result might be 

 better than the product that nature gave us today. 



I have heard this proposal made in many other industrial devel- 

 opments, including the one in an area up on the Hudson River. 



