(d) Corrections are required to eliminate the water penetration problems in the major permanent building structures at Edison, New Jersey; the Southeast Water Laboratory, Athens, Georgia; and the Pacific Northwest Water Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon. These items are required to protect the Federal Government's investment in the building structure, interior finishes and equipment and will require a total of $100,000.

(e) Other requirements exist to improve maintenance, correct operating deficiencies, and make minor renovations. Included are expansion of toilet room facilities in the Robert A. Taft Water Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; National Water Quality Laboratory, Duluth, Minnesota; and the laboratory building at Edison, New Jersey; installation of kick plates on all wooden doors in the Robert A. Taft Water Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; interior painting of both the Robert S. Kerr Water Research Center, Ada, Oklahoma, and part of the laboratory building at Edison, New Jersey; replacement or repair of floor finishes both in the R. A. Taft Water Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the laboratory building at Edison, New Jersey; determination and/or correction of existing deficiencies in mechanical systems controlling space temperature and humidity conditions in both the Taft Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and the National Water Quality Laboratory, Duluth, Minnesota; renovation of the training facilities (new ceiling, lighting, projection facilities) in the Taft Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; and relamping of the entire fluorescent lighting system in the Pacific Northwest Water Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon. A total of $200,000 is required to fund these items.

Basis for a Laboratory Program

Section 5 (e) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, provides:

"The Secretary shall establish, equip and maintain field laboratory and research facilities, including, but not limited to, one to be located in the northeastern area of the United States, one in the Middle Atlantic area, one in the southeastern area, one in the midwestern area, one in the State of Alaska for the conduct of research, investigations, experiments, field demonstrations and studies and training relating to the prevention and control of water pollution. Insofar as practicable, each such facility shall be located near institutions of higher learning in which graduate training in such research might be carried out."

In addition to the seven initially authorized in 1966, Congress authorized three more to be located at Columbia, Missouri; Vicksburg-Jackson, Mississippi area; and Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Water pollution control regional facilities are necessary because:

(1) Water pollution control field activities require readily accessible, substantial and highly technical laboratory support for activities involving development of a comprehensive program for water pollution control, enforcement of pollution abatement, collection of basic data, and technical support to State and local agencies. Technical training for Federal, State, and local water pollution control personnel is also provided at these facilities.

(2) Each region has its own unique water uses and related pollution problems which require intensive research. However, in some cases the findings developed in one region can also be applied to those other regions where similar uses of water exist or are developing.

At the present time four laboratories authorized under this section are completed and generally operational. These include facilities at Athens, Georgia; Ada, Oklahoma; Corvallis, Oregon; and College, Alaska.

In addition to regional water pollution control laboratories, in 1963 the Congress authorized the construction of two national water quality standards laboratories to conduct necessary research for determining water quality standards for salt and fresh water. In light of the Water Quality Act of 1965, which provided for the establishment of standards, the research effort in or through these facilities becomes highly important. The laboratory to conduct research on fresh water is located at Duluth, Minnesota. The salt water research laboratory is planned for Narragansett, Rhode Island. The construction of the Duluth laboratory was completed in 1967.

Because of the national fiscal situation and related curtailment in Federal spending during the past several years and emerging changes in program requirements, a complete reevaluation of laboratory requirements has been undertaken. A report on FWPCA's proposals for this purpose will be completed shortly and submitted to the Appropriations Committees, as promised.

2. Field evaluations: Fiscal year 1970, ...; fiscal year 1971,

...; no change. As noted heretofore, $318,088 is proposed to be reprogrammed from funds appropriated for this activity in prior years in order to finance the water pollution control and water quality standards laboratories' requirements.

Acid mine drainage program and field evaluation of advanced waste treatment processes is now programmed under the research, development and demonstration activity under the appropriation "Pollution Control Operations and Research." Therefore, no further activity for these purposes will be proposed or funded under this appropriation account.

This action will have eliminated any balance for this purpose.

REPROGRAMING OF FUNDS

Senator ELLENDER. We will go on to "Buildings and facilities.” Although no funds are requested for fiscal year 1971 and none were requested in fiscal year 1970, I note that you propose the reprograming of $2 million from funds appropriated in prior years, of which $1,300,000 is to provide for alterations and improvements to essential research facilities and $700,000 for repair and improvement requirements for existing laboratory facilities.

Would you discuss the necessity for the expenditure of these funds for the purposes indicated rather than for the purposes for which the funds were originally appropriated?

Mr. GRANT. The proposed expenditure of the $2 million, Senator Ellender, is necessitated by the relative urgency, the relative need right now. Some of them are of an emergency and a safety measure. For example, of the $2 million we propose to expend $1.3 million to expand certain research facilities. These are not laboratory construction but the extension of certain research facilities one of them at Newtown, Ohio, for a fish toxicology enlargement facility, another at our laboratory at Duluth, Minn., for aquatic insect facility, and two others, one at our Corvallis Laboratory and one at our Cincinnati Laboratory; $700,000 will be used for a variety of routine but urgent maintenance projects such as reinstallation of research generators, a fire warning system at our Corvallis Laboratory, a new roof at our Edison facility, and that kind of routine but very necessary maintenance factors.

Senator ELLENDER. Now, would you furnish for the record-I guess that could be done in connection with the request I made before the amount appropriated for laboratories not yet constructed. You can put that in the record in connection with the information I previously requested so that we see the picture as a whole.

Mr. GRANT. Yes, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. And, of course, I presume that you could include the estimated cost of these various facilities?

NARRAGANSETT LABORATORY

What is the status of your plans and specifications for the laboratory at Narragansett, R.I.?

Mr. GRANT. The specifications for that have been completed. They have been modified to produce additional economies in the proposed construction and they are ready and on a standby basis.

Senator ELLENDER. Have you any idea what the cost of that laboratory will be?

Mr. GRANT. Yes, sir. It will be-to build it and equip it—about $3,600,000.

Senator ELLENDER. What kind of equipment do you feel will be necessary?

Mr. GRANT. This is all scientific equipment, bench facilities all the way from microscopes to all the sophisticated scientific equipment that will be necessary to do the work.

Senator ELLENDER. Will you discuss the type of work to be carried out at this facility, and the relative importance of the research to be

carried out at this laboratory compared to other laboratories not yet placed under construction.

Mr. GRANT. May I ask Dr. Stephan, our research and development man, to answer that.

Dr. STEPHAN. Well, research at Narragansett is being conducted now in temporary facilities at West Kingston and relates to the effects of pollutants on fish and aquatic life in marine waters, estuaries, coastal areas. It is not duplicated in any of the other laboratories of the Agency and will provide we believe extremely important information which is necessary for the improvement and extension of the water quality requirements, water quality standards for coastal waters and estuarine waters of the Nation.

Senator ELLENDER. So there you get a laboratory that would give you information that would be applicable all over the country. Dr. STEPHAN. Yes, indeed.

Senator ELLENDER. We discussed a while ago something along that line.

Dr. STEPHAN. Yes, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. But it seemed not to have worked.

Dr. STEPHAN. Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, then. We can do the in-laboratory studies at a single location and that is what we propose to do and are doing, but in order to test those theories, to test those laboratory results against various types of actual situations, it does require at least temporary field studies at various other locations where the actual biota exist that you want to test against.

AUTHORIZED LABORATORIES

Senaor ELLENDER. As I understand, seven laboratories have been initially authorized. How many of those have been constructed?

Mr. GRANT. Sir, of the seven laboratories originally authorized, four have been constructed. One at Ada, Okla.; Athens, Ga.; College Alaska; and Corvallis, Oreg. Those are the four.

Senator ELLENDER. You have three authorized laboratories that have not been constructed.

Mr. GRANT. Yes, sir. The three are the Great Lakes Laboratory at Ann Arbor, Mich., Mid-Atlantic Laboratory, and the one for the Northeast section of the country. Those are the three that have not yet been constructed.

Senator ELLENDER. Why the delay in constructing these facilities? Mr. GRANT. This is part of the construction freeze, the Bureau of the Budget construction freeze, plus the President's curtailment of Federal construction plus our own reanalysis of our entire laboratory needs situation.

Senator ELLENDER. In connection with that question, can you also tell us if, as and when the money is provided, what purpose these laboratories will serve.

Mr. GRANT. Yes, sir.

Senator ELLENDER. I understand that in addition to the regional water pollution control laboratories, in 1963 Congress authorized the construction of two additional water quality standard laboratories to conduct necessary research for determining water quality standards for salt and fresh water.