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2 Nat. Resources L. Newsl. 1 (1968-1969)

handle is hein.journals/trends2 and id is 1 raw text is: Section to Sponsor ABA National Institute on Air And Water Quality Control Plans have just been announced that the Section will hold its first ABA National Institute on the subject of Air and Water Quality Control. L. Clair Nelson, Chairman of the Sec- tion, stated that this Institute will be conducted over a two- day period on March 21 and 22, 1969 at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. Leading authorities will comprise four panels of speakers that will cover such subject areas as the Federal Water Pollution Act, Federal Air Quality Act, Inter- state Compacts, Tort Liability, as well as the problems of application of the rules in particular industries. Philip K. Verleger, Los Angeles, Chairman of the Institute Planning Committee, said that final planning is now in progress and that Section Members will be receiving more detailed informa- tion shortly. Section members are encouraged to mark their calendars now for these dates. Marine Resources Policy Stated The House of Delegates on August 7, 1968 adopted a Joint Report of the Sections of Natural Resources Law, Inter- national and Comparative Law, and the Standing Committee on Peace and Law Through United Nations relating to the development of Marine Resources. The text of the resolution follows: WHEREAS, the natural resources of the seabed and subsoil under the high seas are becoming, through technological progress, increasingly available to mankind in ways until recently unforeseen; and WHEREAS, a Committee of the United Nations General Assembly is presently considering practical means to promote international co-operation in the exploration, con- servation and Use of the seabed and the ocean floor, and the subsoil thereof.... and of their resources; and WHEREAS, the United States, as a member of that United Nations Committee, has proposed that the exploration and use of the deep ocean floor be open to all states and their nationals without discrimination and in accordance with international law, and as a corollary of this that the exercise of sovereignty or sovereign rights over any part of the deep ocean floor be ruled out; and WHEREAS, the treaty known as the 1958 Convention on the Continental Shelf in force between 37 nations, including the United States, recognizes that each coastal state has (Continued on page 2) L. Clair Nelson John H. Tippit OFFICERS Chairman L. Clair Nelson, New York, New York Chairman-Elect John H. Tippit, Denver, Colorado Vice-Chairman Cecil E. Munn, Fort Worth, Texas Secretary William K. Tell, Jr., New York, New York COUNCIL Ex officio The Officers, Section Delegate, and Jesse P. Luton Jr., Last Retiring Chairman, Houston, Texas For Term Ending 1969 Joseph P. Hammond, Tulsa, Oklahoma C. Howard Hardesty, Jr., New York, New York For Term Ending 1970 Northcutt Ely, Washington, D.C. David R. Phipps, Denver, Colorado For Term Ending 1971 J. Thomas Greene, Salt Lake City, Utah William C. Perry, Jr., Houston, Texas For Term Ending 1972 John B. Howerton, Washington, D.C. Robert C. Keck, Chicago, Illinois Section Delegate to House of Delegates Jesse P. Luton, Jr., Houston, Texas William K. Tell Cecil E. Munn

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