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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />and it affects almost everybody in the United States equally that <br />handling it with federal funds is not really a bad approach. <br /> <br />1k. Berthelson: I don't think there is any question but what the <br />federal government will have to continue to participate in activities <br />in regard to salts in the rivers and things like that. That almost <br />has to be a nation-wide program. I don I t see hm... the states can <br />handle this individually where rivers flow from one state to the next. <br />I think the federal government will have to continue to participate <br />if they are going to insist that we deliver pure water to Mexico. <br />The federal government should certainly shoulder this part of the <br />responsibility. <br /> <br />vk. Staoleton: Larry, in view of this discussion, how are you going <br />to re-write this part of the report? <br /> <br />1k. Soarks: I think what we can say is that since the federal govern- <br />ment is establishing the standards, it should continue to pay part of <br />the costs. <br /> <br />ar. Staoleton: I presume "'e are more than willing to administer <br />standards. We will administer them within the capability of the sewage <br />treatment plants and according to established standards. There is no <br />disagreement about that with the amplification that we have. I think <br />generally we believe that there should be state participation in <br />everything you mentioned, be it either water pollution or whatever~ <br />But how that is going to be done financially is something that we can~ <br />not determine on this board. So with those comments in mind, we will <br />see the next draft for the Governor's statement on that point. <br /> <br />Hr. Soarks: In the field of municipal and industrial water, the report <br />recommends that no subsidies be made available for industrial water. <br />but that some subsidy might be made available for municipal water if <br />the cost exceeds the repayment ability of those benefited. This is <br />indeed a strange part of the report: This was a report put together <br />by a committee and the committee members apparently did not communi- <br />cate well with each other. This part of the report says "Let's not <br />tax the beneficiaries in the case of municipal water, if they can't <br />pay. Let us give them a government subsidy for municipal water." <br />This is indeed strange because we have never had such a policy before. <br />No subsidy is provided for municipal and industrial water at the <br />present time. The report indicates that there is. It is most dif- <br />ficult to distinguish between municipal and industrial water, if not <br />impossible. <br /> <br />-16- <br />