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Incorporated, which specializes in feature and television films. He is President 

 of the World Underwater Federation, representing free divers in thirty conn- 

 tries, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science and he holds degrees 

 from the University of California at Berkeley and Brandeis University as an 

 honorary Doctor of Science. In October 1970, Cousteau was again honored. 

 He received the Potts Medal from the Franklin Institute and the Spirit of St. 

 Louis award from Saint Louis University. 



More recently, Cousteau is the founder and Chairman of the Board of 

 EUROCEAN, a new European organization set up to study and implement the 

 exploitation of the ocean. 



Mr. Lennon. We have at this time the distinguished chairman of 

 the Council on Environmental Quality, Mr. Russell E. Train. If you 

 have anyone with j^ou, Mr. Train, you may bring them forward and 

 have them sit at the table with you. 



]Mr. Trai??^. I have another member of the staff in the audience but 

 I don't believe I will bring him up to the table except in case of need 

 perhaps to answer questions, but at this point I will deal with it myself. 



Mr. Lennon. All right. 



STATEMENT OF RUSSELL E. TRAIN, CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL ON 

 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 



Mr, Traix. Mr. Chairmen — and I have used that word in the plural 

 here as I gather we have cochairmen : I was not sure whether to say 

 Mr. Co- Chairmen — Congressman Pelly and Congressman Mosher, I 

 appreciate the opportunity to meet with your subcommittees and to 

 testify in support of the President's proposals for the control of ocean 

 dumping. Protection of the marine environment has been and contin- 

 ues to be a high priority concern of this administration. 



The Council on Environmental Quality has been deeply concerned 

 about and involved with the problems of ocean dumping from its in- 

 ception slightly over 1 year ago. In his message to Congress of April 

 15, 1970, on the subject of Great Lakes and other dumping, the Presi- 

 dent directed the Council to make a study and report on the ocean 

 disposal of wastes. Through the summer of last year the Council 

 worked to prepare a report to the President on the subject. 



On October 7, 1970, the President transmitted the completed report 

 to Congress, endorsing the Council's recommendations and stating 

 that specific legislative proposals in the form of a bill would be pre- 

 sented to the 92d Congress. The bill was transmitted to Congress as 

 a part of the President's recent environmental message on February 8, 

 This bill has been introduced by Congressman Pelly as H.E. 4247 on 

 February 10 and also has been introduced as H.E. 4723 by Congress- 

 man Garmatz, your distinguished chairman; as H.R. 5239 by Con- 

 gressman Kemp ; as H.R. 5268 by Congressman Ruppe ; as H.R. 5477 

 bv Congressman Pellv; and as H.R. 6771 by Congressman Gerald 

 Ford. 



During our formal study we became convinced that there is a critical 

 need for Federal legislation to implement a national policy on ocean 

 dumping. I would like briefly to present our reasons for reaching this 

 conclusion and for adhering to it in the light of our subsequent work. 

 Then I would like briefly to describe our legislative proposal and com- 

 ment on several of the other proposals now pending before the House 

 and this committee. 



