Tcnment to the Congress, recrimnending lirty-seven point program. He also or- sd Federal agencies to clean up their pollution, took important steps to pre vent oil pollution and clen up any which occurs, and proposed taxes on leaded gas oline to reduce air pollution. Truly, 1970 has been the "Year of the Environment," ^ Respite all of these developments, how ever, there is a growing suspicion among conservationists and environmentalists that industries may be gaining a domin ance where they can play a leading role in the formulation and implementation of Administration policies. Here are the rea sons why 1970 may also become knovm as the; "Year of the Industrialists": ITEM: On 28 January, the Administration announced a delay in imposition of the grazing fee Increase planned for 1970. While this "moratorium" was Imposed for at least one year ostensibly to allow the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Inter ior to study recommendations of the Public Land Law Review Commission, pressures from' Western livestock interests were instru mental in the decision. Actually, the practice of grazing of privately-owned livestock on Federal ranges has been ' "'studied to death" and, before the mora torium, tho fees were found to be so low as to constitute a subsidy for a tiny seg ment of the livestock Industry, The graz ing fee increases were programmed to reach full market value in ten years. Now, the livestock interests are working either to get the moratorium extended or the fee in creases reduced. Due to these pressures over many years, public lands have been badly damaged through overgrazing. ITEM: Cn 9 April, the President an nounced the establishment, by Executive Order, of a National Industrial Pollution Control Council composed of sixty-three officials of major industries. Including polluting water and air resources. Then, the Administration sought $475,000 for op erations of this well-heeled group, or nearly one-third of the amount it request ed for activities of the Council on Envir onmental Quality which is responsible for riding herd on all Federal activities, in cluding those which supervise industries. Hov; well will the Administrator of the new' Environmental Protection Agency be able to crack down on polltiting industries when they are represented in the Cabinet by the Secretary of Commerce and he is not? ITEM: On 19 June, the President ordered Federal agencies to formulate plans to per mit Increased production of timber, prob ably to the detriment of other valid uses of Federal forests, A Republican leader in the Congress, Mr. John P. Saylor (Pa,), described this as a successful end run by the timber industry to gain by executive fiat the special advantages they could not achieve by legislation. In the words of Mr. Saylor "...conservation, environment, ecology, that is, the public’s concerns, are to be subservient to the pressures and profits of the logging and lumber Industry ITEM: On 9 September, a writer for the New York TIMES authored an article attrib uted to I-Jhite House sources which alleged that Carl L, Klein, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for VJater Quality and Re search, was a principal obstacle to the enforcement of anti-pollution laws. The article hinted that Klein was too soft, truth, Klein probably was too brash and tough. The condition of Puget Sound in Washington is an example, A conference, first step in complicated Federal laX'i en forcement procedures, was held in 1962 to initiate a badly-needed cleanup process, Yhe second session of this conference was held in 1967, when the polluting miinicl- palities and industries agreed to a clean up compliance schedule. However, some of jthe polluters are not progressing as rap- In several polluters. Bert S. Cross, of tho Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company^ are not progressing as r was named as chairma,n. The 3-M Company Uhn?iTd think they can and manufactures a product widely used by its Scott P largest plant involved, the subsidiary. National Advertising Company hoys Company, has been given until which is generally credited with being tl^eln onrt of ntQ^^^ ^ deadline to clean bigrest opponent to the removal of bill- wastes sixteen years after boards in the highway beautification plan ULld be^don^^So^r ^^t supported by the Department of Transnor- h* i ? done. Klein wanted to call a pub- tation. Others Included in the star-stud- rearing, second stage in the law en ded lineup are executives of many of th^ nation's largest lumbering, mining, oil and manufacturing companies, some of whlchLer'' oSL^^from^unsr^ have .aan uader close Federal