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came to cancel the hearing, Klein resigned
17 September,
ITEM; An almost-forgotten section cal-
3.ed the Refuse Act in the 1899 Rivers and
Harbors Act prohibits the discharge of
"refuse matter of any kind or description
whatever" into any interstate or intra
state navigable water of the United States
except under a permit from the Army Corps
of Engineers. While municipal sewage is
Federal agencies now are busy drafting
their proposed budget for fiscal 1972. Af
ter a thorough going over, this Budget
will be sent to the Congress in Januarj'".
Earlier this year, Thomas L. Kimball, Ex
ecutive Director of the National Wildlife
Federation, directed an open letter to the
President, He asked: "Are you spending e—
nough to repair the damage done to the en
vironment——to Safeguard our natural re-
exempted, almost all other pollutants sup-| sources," pointing rut that natural re-
posedly are covered, including discharges j sources ranked thirteenth or dead last
of oil, chemicals, garbage from ships, and! am*ong the priorities in the 1971 budget
even heat. The Corps of Engineers has is- request. How much money is allocated for
sued relatively few permits over the years
and obvious violations of the Act are
widespread. However, the Corps of Engi
neers and the Justice Department are bend- be an index toward hew much influence
wise managemient of natural resources, for
water and air pollution control, and for
effective protective law enforcement will
ing over backward tc not conflict with the
water pollution abatement efforts of the
Federal Water Quality Administration—or
to prosecute violators. Curiously enough,
Seattle attorney Marvin Durning in April
asked the United States Attorney to prose
cute and fine under provisions of the Ref
use Act the industries which are dumping
wastes into Puget Sound. When no action
was forthcoming, on 9 July he vent to
in-
court against ITT Rayonier, Inc., charging not deferred, now has a method to take ad-
the firm \jith dumping pulp wastes into the
Sound. Thus far, there is little evidence
that the Administration wants to develop
dustrial interests have ga.ined within the
Administration in this "Year of the En
vironment ."
LOUIS S. CLAPPER
in CONSERVATION NEWS
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TARR ORDERS AID TO LOTTERY ESCAPES
WASHINGTON— (CPS) —Any man who is now
deferred, and who would be in the lottery
selection pool for induction if he were
vantage of his high lottery number and use
it to escape the draft now.
Under an advisory memorandum sent by
a coordinated crackdovm on industrial pol- National Selective Service Director Curtis
Inters, using either new or newly-redis- Tarr to all local draft boards recently,
covered laws, or even to ask for addition- such men may voluntarily relinquish their
al funds to employ more people for in- deferments and enter the 1-A pool. Prior
creased surveillance,
ITEM: For years, industrial and busi
ness groups opposed a strong Federal water;
to this time, this matter had been open tc
debate, and draft boards were supposed to
■'maintain all registrants in their defer—
pollution control program, including
grants to cities for the construction of
waste treatment plants. This attitude
steiraned from the realization that, once
the cities cleaned up, the public finger
would be pointed at industrial polluters
In 1969 the Administration proposed that
ments as long as they continued to qual
ify for them.
System spokesmen are quite confident
that no registrant with a lottery number
higher than 195 will be called this year,
junless there is a declaration of vjar or a
(national emergency which requires massive
e, ^
only -$214 million be appropriated (as had imiobilization. At the end of the year, those
the Johnson Administration) for fiscal imen whose numbers have not been reached by
1970. The Congress, however, responding jtheir local boards and who are classified
to widespread public demands, appropriated!i_A, 1-A-O, or 1-0 are moved to a second
$800 million. Then, the Administration ob- priority pool. Men have not been called
ligated only $360 million, leaving a $440 jfi’om this second priority pool or its e-
million "carrj^over." Much of this slow- Equivalent under the old system since the
down was due to a shortage of manpower to |Korean War.
process applications from the States and
cities. Of 150 positions authorized, the
Federal Water Quality Administration was
allowed only ninety, and som.e of these
were not yet filled.
j Registrants with high numbers who wish
Ito take advantage of this opportunity to
take the draft off their backs may \nrite
a brief letter to their draft board ask
ing tc be reclassified 1-A immediately.
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