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Mr. BorBerG. With respect to the proposed legislation, our main 
problem is that it presently stresses only negative factors. I like to 
think of a sewage treatment plant in a positive vein in that they 
take liquid waste products of our society and through a very so- 
phisticated and expensive process, turn this material into water . 
that ranges from merely environmentally acceptable for discharge, 
to water suitable for potable purposes. 
The second product of many of our plants, with proper industrial 
pretreatment control, is a clean, nontoxic organic material that is 
an excellent fertilizer. A great deal of work has been done on the 
land using this organic material as a fertilizer, which may reduce 
chemical costs by as much as $50 an acre. Properly managed in the 
ocean, this organic material in many cases, could have the same 
fertilizing effect. 
One of the problems in the past practices has been that this or- 
ganic material has simply been dumped in very confined areas, 
which is about the equivalent of taking truckload after truckload of 
fertilizer and dumping it in the middle of a field and then conclud- 
ing that the material is harmful, since few positive benefits can be 
observed. 
I have asked my staff—and I will add that it is a very small staff, 
to research literature and put together a paper which is inclosed in 
my testimony, which points out many beneficial uses. I would also 
