Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Avalanche of Money. Back of all -the expanding activity is the expansive talk about the vast amounts of cash that will be needed for the big cleanup. The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration estimates that the cost of bringing polluted streams and lakes up to federal standards would amount to $26 billion to $29 billion between 1969 and 1973. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington figures that cleaning and deodorizing the air will cost $12 billion to $15 billion during the next five years. President Nixon has prepared a $10 billion, five-year program to build municipal waste-treatment plants...
...barrels," cracked House Majority Leader Har rison L. Richardson. As a result, a bipartisan legislative committee, helped by Governor Curtis' staff, confidently wrote tough new bills to control the future industrial development of Maine. One measure provides for a $4,000,000 fund to finance the cleanup of any oil spills. The companies will have to pay a half-cent levy on every barrel of oil they move into or out of Maine-a prospect that displeases some companies so much that they may test the law's constitutionality. In addition, the law states that the oil companies...
...major share of this cleanup cost would have to be met by the Government. U.S. cities and towns will need $10 billion by 1975 just to meet current water quality standards, plus an additional $6 billion to build and repair sewer lines under city streets. It will take even more for municipalities to go further and separate the main and storm sewers that now flow together to contribute so heavily to the pollution problem. This would push the total cost to $50 billion...
...Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, the city's urban-renewal agency, has a commendable if uncontrollable passion for keeping Philadelphia tidy. When a Licenses and Inspection Department worker recently spied some trash in the backyard of one of the agency's properties, a cleanup order was promptly issued by the authority...