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Most of these chemicals are insoluble, and mercury and beryllium 
are deadly poisons as you well know. ' 
Mr. Chairman, H.R. 18454 is absolutely necessary as a beginning in 
the restoration of our water resources and the prevention of more inci- 
dents of the kind off Massachusetts. 
I do, however, have one recommendation for your committee. I re- 
commend that the Secretary of Interior establish, and that it be writ- 
ten into this legislation, a zero-pollution standard for thermal and 
radiation discharge into coastal waters from any nuclear facilities. 
I am also compelled to comment that like so many other environmen- 
tal protection measures, H.R. 18454, too, only deals with the symptoms 
of the problem. | 
Mr. Chairman, I throw out to you and your committee, the challenge 
of truly solving the scouge of smothering liquid and solid waste. 
I recommend the establishment of a “National Industrial Process 
and Waste Review Board.” This board would review manufacturing 
processes to determine first, whether the benefit of the new product out- 
weighs the risk of the waste and byproducts which it produces. If not, 
the product will not be allowed into production. But, if the benefit and 
need of this product outweigh the risk to the public and environment 
then the board will determine through regulation how the waste must 
be recycled or disposed of on land. It may also require alternative in- 
dustrial processes for products if the one used is damaging to the en- 
vironment. 
Tn other words, Mr. Chairman, because your committee’s jurisdiction 
is limited, it forces you to deal with this pressing problem literally at 
the end of the line. That is, at the end of the assembly and production 
lines of American industry. 
The problem lies at the beginning—and therefore it can only be 
solved at the beginning of the manufacturing process. 
This Nation long ago lost the luxury to produce products without 
consideration for the environment and health effects, and solid and 
liquid waste considerations. 
Industry must be made to account for the use of our environment 
as a garbage receptacle for their own profitmaking. 
Mr. Chairman, in discussing a permanent and satisfactory solution 
to this problem we must not fail to consider the problem of municipal 
waste. In Boston Harbor alone, each and every day, 550 million gal- 
lons of primary treated sludge and 12 million gallons of untreated 
sewerage are pumped into these confined waters. Mr. Chairman, the 
harbor is dying, it will take $1.5 billion to save it at this present time. 
The Administration has allocated $4 billion for the entire Nation over 
the next 5 years. 
To save our water resources, Congress must act now. ~ 
Mr. Chairman, it may be too late to save many of our rivers, har- 
bors, and lakes but there is mounting evidence that we are beginning 
to kill our oceans. 
You have an awesome task and responsibility. I hope that you are 
able to carry it out so the public will have rea] cause for optimism. 
Mr. Chairman, I wish to submit for the record. a report of the Spe- 
cial Massachusetts Commission on Marine Boundaries and Resources 
on this very subject. Contained within it is legislation the State of 
Massachusetts will soon enact in the area of offshore dumping. __ 
Mr. Drvxeetz. Without objection, the document referred to will be 
inserted in the record at this point. 
