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<br />0,)1176 <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br /> <br />ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY <br /> <br />REGION IX <br />100 CALIFORNIA STREET <br />SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA 94111 <br /> <br />June 28, 1972 <br /> <br />Chairman, Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency <br />Committee <br />U. S. Army Engineering Division, South Pacific <br />630 Sansome Street, Room 1216 <br />San Francisco, California 94111 <br /> <br />Dear Sir: <br /> <br />The Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, in conjunction with <br />the Environmental Protection Agency, Region VIII, has reviewed the <br />November 1971 draft of the Pacific Southwest Analytical Summary <br />Report on Water and Land Resources, prepared by the Pacific South- <br />west Inter-Agency Committee for the United States Water Resources <br />Council. <br /> <br />The report mainly covers development and management of the water <br />and related land resources of the Pacific Southwest area and does <br />not address itself significantly to the potential environmental <br />effects which may be associated with such development. It is <br />especially weak with respect to air pollution and land and water <br />pollution associated with the disposal of solid wastes. The report <br />does not adequately respond or attempt to quantify the effects on <br />the environment of massive surface water development and transfer. <br />The section on Effects Upon the EnVironment, identifies some of the <br />potential environmental effects in general terms, but offers few <br />solutions and carries the overall implication that continued deg- <br />radation of the land, air and water is the ineVitable price of pop- <br />ulation growth and economic development. This Agency does not <br />ascribe to this philosophy. <br /> <br />In the summary of each of the regional plans, mention is made of <br />some aspects of the air pollution problem such as the California <br />Regionl s 'observation that substantial increases in sulfur dioxide <br />air contamination will result from construction of fossil fuel <br />electric generating plants if sulfur dioxide emission control <br />technology is not greatly improved (see page 155). The Lower <br />Colorado Region has called for close attention to design require- <br />ments for air pollution control measures in the construction of <br />such power plants. <br /> <br />EXHIBIT G <br /> <br />