A Strategy for a Livable Environment: A Report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1967 - Broj stranica: 90
 

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Stranica 4 - Pollution increases not only because as people multiply the space available to each person becomes smaller, but also because the demands per person are continually increasing, so that each throws away more year by year. As the earth becomes more crowded, there is no longer an "away.
Stranica 79 - To carry out sections 301, 311, and 314(c) of the Act, with respect to radiological health, including grants for training of radiological health specialists; purchase of not to exceed one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only...
Stranica 5 - ... Century, an ambling railroad train provided man's fastest regular means of transportation. The Wright brothers' flight in 1903 was shorter than the distance from wing tip to wing tip of today's jet transports. This year Americans will fly a total of 70 billion passenger-miles in commercial airlines at speeds up to 650 miles per hour. We are now planning to fly the Supersonic Transport (SST) nearly three times that fast. This year, the 90,000,000 motor vehicles in use will burn an estimated 60,000,000,000...
Stranica 14 - This refuse is creating a huge and, as yet, unsolved problem of waste disposal. Therefore, the task force recommends an effort to provide by 1973 a grantin-aid program for solid waste disposal at the local level ; a developmental research program to integrate solid and liquid waste disposal and air quality control ; and for the disposal of nuclear wastes. The President's Science Advisory Committee in its report "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment...
Stranica 81 - Government shall provide leadership in the nationwide effort to improve water quality through prevention, control, and abatement of water pollution from Federal Government activities in the United States.
Stranica 2 - An individually acceptable amount of water pollution, added to a tolerable amount of air pollution, added to a bearable amount of noise and congestion can produce a totally unacceptable health environment. It is entirely possible that the biological effects of these environmental hazards, some of which reach man slowly and silently over decades or generations, will first begin to reveal themselves only after their impact has become irreversible.
Stranica 6 - Health experts have repeatedly pointed out that grave, delayed physical manifestations can result from repeated exposure to concentrations of environmental pollutants so small that they do not make one ill enough to send him to the doctor. Environmental pollutants can have cumulative effects, especially because they accumulate in certain tissues and organs. These effects can take delayed forms such as cancers, emphysema, and reduced life span, and they can even extend to following generations.
Stranica 13 - Rising air, rail, and bus traffic in recent years has made it necessary for the Public Health Service to assume regulatory jurisdiction over an increasing number of water supplies, now estimated to serve some 80,000,000 people. However, these systems are inspected an average of only once in three years, and about one-fifth of them now enjoy only provisional approval from the Public Health Service. If the experience of this Public Health Service program is indicative of the drinking water quality...
Stranica 73 - Clean Air Act.' " SEC. 2. The title of such Act of July 14, 1955, is amended to read "An Act to provide for air pollution prevention and control activities of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and for other purposes.
Stranica xiii - There must be an inducement so strong for state and local governments to do comprehensive planning on an appropriate geographic scale and to conform with national goals and objectives that it is politically and economically unpalatable for them to do otherwise.. ..Participation on the part of local government in any regional environmental program should be as great as possible, but it must be recognized that environmental protection problems will have to be solved on the metropolitan or regional...

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