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to have sufficient water. Some people even want to steal it from us. 

 We are trying to protect this precious asset and we are counting on 

 the Federal Government, which has a responsibility in this area to 

 help the local communities do what is necessary to keep our water 

 pure, or correct it where it is polluted. 



Dr. Jacobs. As a matter of fact, we do have programs being mounted 

 in PHS directly in relation to water quality. To a great extent we 

 have gotten the problem of infectious diseases in the water supply 

 under control. There are other problems associated with water, like 

 residual pesticides and other materials which get flushed into the 

 streams. 



Mr. Pelly. I know a lot of people would like to have the Public 

 Health Service take over the problem of industrial water pollution. 

 I think sometimes we have too many people working on the same thing 

 and not getting enough done. 



Where a State has its own pollution control agency, do you co- 

 operate with it? 



Dr. Jacobs. We cooperate with them; yes. 



Mr. Pelly. Tliank you very much. 



Mr. Lennon. Doctor, I notice the newest of your specialized labora- 

 tory facilities is located in Gig Harbor in the State of Washington 

 and is working closely with tlie University of Washington. Perhaps 

 you need not comment on it now, but for the record I am sure Mr. 

 iPellj^ would appreciate your putting in something on the great job 

 they are doing. 



(The information follows:) 



Northwest Marine Health Sciences Laboratory 



The Northwest Marine Health Sciences Laboratory, Gig Harbor, Washington, 

 is located on Puget Sound approximately half way between Tacoma and Brem- 

 erton, in temporary facilities provided by the Health Department of the State 

 of Washington. The activities in which it has recently been engaged include 

 both microbiological studies relating to shellfish sanitation — work on viruses, on 

 the significance of Escherichia coli as evidence of pollution and on the ecology 

 of botulism in the marine environment — and work on problems of fresh water 

 supply as affected by recreational activities, particularly in the water sheds 

 supplying Tacoma and Seattle. 



The PHS facilities at Gig Harbor have been used by several members of the 

 faculty of the College of Fisheries of the University of Washington in Seattle. 

 A productive working relationship exists between the two groups, and certain 

 cooperative efforts have been undertaken, including a study of radiation i>as- 

 teurization of shellfish. 



The Public Health Service has acquired 17 acres of property at Manchester, 

 Washington, formerly a part of a U.S. Navy net-tending station, and plans for 

 the construction of a marine health science facility at this location are cur- 

 rently being developed. In fiscal year 1967 approximately $1 million was appro- 

 priated for planning and construction of the facility. 



Negotiations have been undertaken by the Department of the Interior and 

 the University of Washington looking toward the acquisition of the remainder 

 of the property of which the PHS acreage forms a part. It is hoped that these 

 efforts will eventually result in the creation of a complex of facilities capable 

 of undertaking a broad range of research and development in marine biology 

 and the public health aspects of marine food resources. 



Mr. Rogers. Your responsibility as the Deputy Assistant Secretary 

 for Science runs you through all phases of this department, is that 

 correct ? 



Dr. Jacobs. Yes ; sir. 



