Word: dischargee
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President Nixon last December seized on the 1899 Refuse Act as a way to regulate the discharge of industrial wastes into U.S. waters. The act stipulates that persons and corporations shall not dump wastes into navigable waterways without first obtaining permits. To get permits, they would have to comply with...
JOE COLOMBO'S civic career is a recent development. Until he organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, he was a much more private person, intent on following his father's profession. Anthony Colombo was a successful Brooklyn mobster until he was garroted one night in 1938 in the back...
Troublesome Addicts. Perhaps more important than compulsory treatment will be the opening of VA facilities to all former servicemen in need of rehabilitation. Under current regulations, anyone with a dishonorable discharge - the generally accepted means of flushing troublesome addicts from the military - is not eligible for VA therapy. In the...
More than a decade ago, it became clear that the booming West and Southwest would soon need far more electric power. But people in Phoenix or Los Angeles did not want to live next door to generating plants that spew soot and noxious gases, discharge hot water and spawn unsightly...
Texas Works has only two smokestacks, and these emit almost no smoke. The two giant 200-ton furnaces are fueled by a careful mixture of natural gas and air that is almost smokeless, and 25,000-h.p. fans blow the few exhaust fumes through a cooling water spray that removes...