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              UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                      WASHINGTON, D.C.   20548

                                 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                 EXPECTED AT 9:30 A.M. E.D.T.,
                                 SEPTEMBER 19, 1984

                           STATEMENT OF
           HUGH J. WESSINGER, SENIOR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
      RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

                            BEFORE THE
           SUBCOMMITTFE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT
                              OF THE
         HOUSE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORATION
                                ON

      NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM PERMIT
      COMPLIANCE BY MAJOR INDUSTRIAL DISCHARGERS  IN LOUISIANA

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be here today to present  the results of our

most recent  work on how well certain major industrial dischargers

in Louisiana have been complying with National Pollutant Discharge

Elimination  System (NPDES)  permits--the principal means  of con-

trolling the nation's water pollution.

     On December  2, 1983, we issued a report entitled  Wastewater

Dischargers Are Not  Complying With EPA Pollution Control Permits

(GAO/RCED-84-53),  which included  an analysis of  50 major indus-

trial  dischargers  in Louisiana.    We testified  on  that report

before your subcommittee in March of this year.  In June you asked

us  to follow  up on  information we  had  included in  the report

regarding industrial dischargers along the lower Mississippi River

between Baton  Rouge and  New Orleans.   At your  request, we have




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