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(7) Appoint or elect a local Clean Streams Committee chairman and 
such other officers as may be appropriate. (The Cook County Clean Streams 
Committee, for example, has as officers a chairman, vice chairman, execu- 
tive secretary, public relations representative, and seven co-chairmen in 
charge of surveillance activities in the seven areas into which the county 
is divided for administrative purposes). 
(8) Appoint a chairman for each surveillance unit through whom all 
reports of water pollution will be cleared for referral to the chairman of 
the Clean Streams Committee. 
(9) In order to maintain effective control over potential sources of 
water pollution, committee officers should familiarize themselves with the 
state laws on pollution and with the prescribed procedures for reporting 
violations to the appropriate state agency. 
(10) Supply copies of each reported violation to the proper state 
agency as well as to the mayor or chief administrative officer in the area 
where the violation has been discovered and to the local States Attorney 
or Prosecutor and to the Board of Health. 
(11) Keep a complete file of all reported violations, noting thereon all 
action taken in each case. Maintain contact with the enforcement agency 
until the case has been brought to a satisfactory conclusion. A periodic 
follow-up of completed cases is advisable to insure continued compliance. 
(12) Reports of violations should be prepared accurately and in detail 
showing the exact location, street or road names, highway numbers or 
other means of identification for the benefit of the state investigator. 
(13) Schedule regular meetings of the Clean Streams Committee once 
each month. Invite your legislative representatives and arouse their interest 
in your pollution problems and your efforts to solve them. Go over your 
pending cases at each meeting so that committee members may be kept 
informed as to the current status of each case. 
(14) In view of the tremendous effort required if our state’s scarce 
water resources are to be preserved in their clean, natural condition, it 
is urgent that local or county Clean Stream Committees be organized 
and commence functioning as quickly as possible. 
With the referendum on our billion dollar “Natural Resources Develop- 
ment Bond Act” scheduled for consideration by the voters on this coming 
November 5th, the present is an especially opportune time to establish 
local and county Clean Streams Committees so that Illinois may stand in 
the vanguard of states which have demonstrated that contamination of 
our supplies of fresh water can be checked and prevented. 
—James Sloss - 605 Skokie Lane, Glencoe, Illinois 60022 
“BIRD FINDING IN ILLINOIS” 
The mid-night oil is burning as Paul Lobik and Elton Fawks labor 
putting on the finishing touches to this long awaited book on where © 
to find birds in our state. A goal has been set of having it ready 
for the convention of the National Audubon Society in St. Louis 
in April 1969. The date for this book was compiled by Fawks 
with Lobik doing the editing. At this time the price is not known. 
Look for this book. —Elton Fawks 
