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B-166506 1 (1974-09-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabknl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPROLER ENEAL P TeUNTDSAE WAHNtoN b.e 0 I-r RELEASED SEP 9 1974 o q 61. V The Honorable Don Edwards House of Representatives Dear Mr. Edwards: In response to your letter of February 5, 1974, we reviewed Federal agencies' efforts to control their discharges of pollutants into San Francisco Bay. Our review included determining the extent to which the Bay is being polluted by discharges of waste water from Federal facilities and vessels and by the dumping of dredge material. Federal agencies are not major polluters of the Bay. Of the estimated 800 million gallons of treated or untreated wastes dis- charged daily into the Bay from stationary sources, only about 2 percent are discharged from Federal facilities. Although Federal vessels discharge about 133,000 gallons of sewage and other wastes into the Bay daily, vessel discharges are less than one-tenth of 1 percent of all daily discharges into the Bay. Federal agencies have taken or are planning actions to eliminate their discharges into the Bay. Scientific data is not available to evaluate the environmental effects of dredging and the dumping of dredge material. Executive Order 11752, December 17, 1973, commits Federal agencies to provide leadership--as did Executive Order 11507, February 4, 1970--in the nationwide effort to protect and enhance the quality of our air, water, and land resources in full coopera- tion with State and local governments. Under the order, the heads of the Federal agencies have primary responsibility for insuring that activities under their jurisdiction meet Federal, State, interstate and local water quality standards. 9o6 53 B-166506 I-

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