BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. ROZICH:

We have not as yet seen them. The reason we
are awaiting them and are anxious to get going
is that on December 23rd President Nixon issued
a Presidential Order directing that industries
had to make such application by July 1st of
this year. It just says application. It does I.
not say they have to have their permit by that
date. The word I got from Colonel Lovejoy,
I don't know whether it is General or Colonel
Ott in Omaha is going to attend a meeting the
latter part of this week in Washington at
which he hopes to pick up further information
on this. The procedure will be, they will
mail the application to the industry, the
industry will fill out the application, return
it to us, our people will then certify as to
whether a permit should be issued or not
issued, and then it will be returned to the
Corps. They will work with the EPA. The EPA,
which is the Environmental Protection Agency,
can also ask that a permit be denied over both
the state and the Corps, as I understand it.

There is also a fine or penalty provision
in this act. Maybe you read about three months
ago where a woman and her child picked up, I
think, $12.500. In other words, if a violation
occurs, the state or the federal people through
the Department of Justice can take action.
However, any private citizen can also take
action. If they locate a discharge that they
feel is in violation, they can go to the De-
partment of Justice. If they take it to court
and a fine is issued, they get half of the
fine. This woman and her child saw for a
number of days a concrete truck that was dis-
charging the concrete it had left in the truck
at the end of the day into the East River.
The fine was $25.000, so they picked up
$12,500."

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"What was the name of that law again?"

"The 1899 Refuse Act."