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$5,000. and/or six months imprisonment. And the final Section 2 
permits the Department of Natural Resources to utilize a portion 
of existing funds for research on improved methods of disposing of 
hazardous wastes. 
CONCLUSION: 
At the suggestion of this Commission, the Division of Water 
Pollution Control is meeting with the Department of Public Safety 
to solve the immediate problems which exist in advance of the 
passage of this legislation. The Corps of Engineers has promised 
its full co-operation. 
Such temporary steps as they may be able to take within the 
next few weeks are at least some improvement over the unregu- 
lated situation which existed in advance of the work of this Com- 
mission. But they are no permanent solution. 
The ultimate solution can only be a body of law that gives power 
to qualified and alert state officials to take such steps as may be 
needed to protect the public interest and the public safety. Such 
protection is necessary not only for the living, most of whom are 
not qualified to make the sophisticated judgments required in mod- 
ern technology, but for generations yet unborn. A safe environ- 
’ ment is their birthright. 
Therefore, the Commission recommends immediate passage of 
the bill set forth in Appendix A, together with an emergency pre- 
amble. 
JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY 
ALLAN JONES 
JAMES HART 
WALTER HANNON, JR. 
EDWARD J. RIBBS 
(JOHN P. KING) 
FRANK BACHOFF 
STEVE T. CHMURA 
GEORGE V. KENNEALLY, JR. 
ROBERT H. QUINN 
ARTHUR W. BROWNELL 
