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Legislature, and would be available. It appears they are going to 

 be passed. 



He will also have for you a list of 50 laws that have been offered 

 in the United States. We have digested these laws, prepared infor- 

 mation on them. They will be available to you. 



VENLO WOLFSOHN. There are several cities that have laws about 

 abandonment on their books. The problem with that is enforce- 

 ment. Invariably, the people who abandon cars are people who 

 can't afford to keep them operating. At our national convention, 

 the city solicitor of Pittsburgh pointed out they arrested six men 

 for abandoning their cars, five were unemployed, and the sixth one 

 just got out of six months in the hospital. So they don't bother to 

 enforce it. 



A DELEGATE. Professor Haar, I noted in your summary that your 

 panel would recommend looking into zoning standards, which would 

 be adequate for community protection, and also fair to this very 

 essential industry. Since we must plan before we zone, I hope you 

 will also recommend that we approach this problem with a com- 

 prehensive land-use analysis. We need to analyze the processing of 

 auto bodies, and other scrap metal. No matter how fast we process 

 the flow of cars through the yards, we will still need major land 

 areas. I hope we can find out the location of the many different 

 steps in the process, the land area requirements and the necessary 

 environmental controls. To do this, I feel you need research funds. 



The URA, Urban Renewal Administration, because of its efforts 

 and interest in land-use planning, could contribute some funds and 

 support. The Bureau of Mines with its research into new techniques 

 in reduction methods, would be another essential agency, and Health, 

 Education, and Welfare, because of its interest in the reduction of 

 air pollution, could also contribute. I would assume that several 

 levels of the industry would also do so. 



Mrs. CONNIE QUINN. I have been working with scrap dealers for 

 about five years because of Kentucky automobile graveyards. We 

 had one scrap dealer tell us that he had no intention of attempting to 

 move junk cars out of eastern Kentucky, because he was going to use 

 our beautiful eastern Kentucky hills as his storage yard, until an- 

 other war came along, or some miracle happened to raise the scrap 

 steel price. 



