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Show Air Pollution Studies Planned by Utah State Health Department useful also to industry by revealing re-vealing among other things the need for specialized equipment which may prevent loss of valuable valu-able materials into the air and protecting the health of workers and the public. Among the elements for which a basic air study will be made is beryllium, a relatively uncommon un-common air pollutant which, however, offers possibiliteis for future industrial production in Utah. The immediate objective is to determine how much, if any, of this material normally is present in the atmosphere. A new air sampling and contaminant con-taminant identifictaion program aimed at measuring specific pollutants pol-lutants in the atmosphere will be inaugurated this week in Salt Lake City and County. Dr. Grant S. Winn, who is in charge of air pollution control activities of the State Department Depart-ment of Health, will supervise the new program with the cooperation co-operation of the Salt Lake City Health Department, Salt Lake County Health Department, and the U. S. Public Health Service. This activity supplements the more general studies already under way and will add to data previously accumulated. Initially six sampling stations will be set up in various parts of the city and county, with expansion ex-pansion to a total of fifteen to twenty contemplated in the immediate im-mediate future, according to G. D. Carlyle Thompson, M.D., director di-rector of public health. "This is the inauguration of a systemmatic study to determine not only the total volume of contamination con-tamination in the air, but to identify specific, air borne elements ele-ments and determine whether and in what degree each may be present." The project will be |