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The Department of the Army's Draft Environmental Statement on Biological 

 Demilitarization provides a detailed description of the elaborate program pre- 

 pared for biological agents and munitions disposal. Currently this statement has 

 been reviewed by other Federal Agencies and appropriate state organizations. 

 The final E.I.S. is being filed with the CEQ in the immediate future. 



Mr. Rogers. Now, Admiral, l&t me ask you a question or two that I 

 have on your statement. I believe you said that a good ocean dumping 

 act should clearly exclude waste waters discharged from shore facilities 

 through sewers into coastal waters, because the mechanism for con- 

 troling these discharges are included in the Clean Waters Act. 



Admiral Crawford. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Rogers. I thought there was some question as to whether this 

 bill goes into actual coastal waters. Isn't there some question as to 

 whether that actually would apply ? I am not sure they set standards, 

 as far as all of the coastal waters. 



Admiral Crawford. This is Commander D'Emido. 



Commander D'Emido. Mr. Chairman, section 10 of the Federal 

 Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, provides for the States to 

 develop their effluent standards. Once these standards are approved by 

 EPA, these become the enforcement documents in each particular 

 State. The mechanism for developing these standards for effluents 

 eminating from industrial plants and from sewage treatment plants, 

 provides adequate discharge controls to protect the receiving waters. 



]\Ir. Rogers. Suppose the State has not established. 



Commander D'Emido. They must by law. They had to establish 

 them by a certain date in consultation with the EPA, otherwise the 

 Government would establish the standards for the States. 



Mr. Rogers. Essentially it might happen, if they get to it. Well, 

 would you have any objection to deadlines being set as we stated 

 before. Admiral, on industrial and sewage wastes, having primary 

 and secondary treatment by certain dates ? What would be 



Admiral Crawford. I would refer back to General Hayes' comment. 

 It would depend upon what those dates were, because anything that 

 we are required to do in changing sewage treatment plant facilities 

 requires money. This comes out of our appropriation and it is a con- 

 strained appropriation. Based on current standards, we hope within 

 a few years to have every deficiency corrected ashore, but we can't 

 do it all at once. 



So I would say that if it is reasonable, yes, because we are laying 

 out a pr©jram to complete all these things as far as we can. 



Mr. Rogers. Would you let us have your thinking on the time limits 

 that would seem to you to be reasonable ? 

 Admiral Crawford. Yes, sir. 

 ( Supplemental statement follows : ) 



Defense Department Sewage Treatment Timetable 



H.R. 4359 referred to by Congressman P. Rogers would establish a rigid time- 

 table for the installation of primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment. To meet 

 these standards, especially tertiary treatment, under the present DOD Planning, 

 Programming and Budgeting System, would be Impractical to achieve by 1976. 

 Also tertiary treatment, which is a very expensive process, should be provided 

 only if it is determined, based on site surveys and analysis, that this level of treat- 

 ment is required and essential to protect the marine life and marine habitat. In 

 most cases the quality of the effluent from secondary treatment facilities is ade- 

 quate to prevent degradation of the oceaii, coastal, and other waters. 



