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Show Board of Health Asks Governor Name Air Pollution Committee several years has related to the measurement and tabulation of radioactive fall out and the study of other available data, our services have for several months been broadened. This is party because of the request of industry indus-try for our assistance pertaining to new developments in Utah." The Department of Health has received valuable assistance from the U. S. Public Health Service in developing a plan and method of operation to obtain basic data, Dr. Thompson said. The State Board of Health at its regular February meeting passed a resolution requesting Gov. George D. Clyde to name a non-salaried Advisory Committee Commit-tee on Air Pollution. This action followed a review of the Department of Health's activities and immediate and long range plans for coping with the Department's statutory responsibility re-sponsibility in regard to the protection pro-tection of public health through studies and controls of air pollution pol-lution and radiation hazards. Both the Director of Public Health, Dr. G. D. Carlye Thompson Thomp-son and the board felt that the Department's activity in this area had reached a point that an Advisory Committee would be of great value. The function of the committee, according to the resolution, will be: "To advise the Utah State Department De-partment of Health during the current biennium under its existing exist-ing legal responsibilities, regarding regard-ing any problems of air pollution affecting or that may affect the public health including studies and control measures." The resolution of the Board of Health provided that, in addition to advising the Department of Health in health phases of the air pollution problem the new advisory committee as well as technicians in the department would, upon request and within the availability of funds, be available to assist the Legislai-tive Legislai-tive Council in its study of over all air polution and possible measures of control. The board asked that the committee com-mittee be composed of seven members all of whom would have demonstrated interest and concern con-cern in air pollution matters. The committee would include at least three persons who by training train-ing or experience have technical competence in the field of air pollution. One member would be a legislator and one each would represent industry, municipalities municipali-ties and the general public. "The interest of the State Department De-partment of Health is to study air pollution and radiation hazard haz-ard as it affects public health," said Dr. Thompson. "While the principle activity in the past |