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<br />c.~ <br /> <br />..... <br />W of Ok1ahom" (72 O. S. 1941, Sec. 351c). Pollution statutes are dis- <br />"" cussed in pamphlet, "Oklahom Stream Pollution Statutes and General <br />~ Rules and Regulations of the Oklahoma Planning and Resource Board". <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Pollution from oil field vastes is a problem of increasing concern <br />to OklahoDlB. The State frovns on the use of surface evaporeting pits, <br />and feels that the proper IlIlIthod of disposal is by inJection into sub- <br />surface salt-bearing strata. OklahollEl's Suprelllll Court has ruled, in <br />Rosecrans vs. West Edmond Salt Water Dispossl Association, that oil <br />companies have the legal right to dispose of their vastes through such <br />subsurface methods (#33112, OklahoDlB Supreme Court, July 11, 1950). <br /> <br />; <br /> <br />Oklahom feels that the solution of interstate pollution problemB <br />my lie in interstate compacts. <br /> <br />~I 2 October 1950, Revised 28 December 1950 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />J <br />I <br /> <br />'J <br /> <br />A-24 <br />