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Show Moss Seeking Environmental Grant Money A bill to provide one hundred thousand dollars dol-lars for an environmental research institute center in each of the 50 .states has been introduced jointly by Senator Frank K. Moss, TJ-l'tah andSen. Clifford P. Hansen. K-Wyoming. K-Wyoming. The money would go to the School of Mines of a public university ir each state and be used for research in minerals and engineering. Senator Moss prefaced his introduction of the legislation by saying, "As further environmental improvement is sought, the technical difficulties and the cost of gaining each new increment of quality greatly increases the costs of operation and may make the difference dif-ference between feasibility feasibil-ity and infeasibility in a mine's economic picture." pict-ure." The Senator citeda recent re-cent Senate study that urged ur-ged Federal assistance in long-range research programs to help the mining industry cope with new environmental requirements. re-quirements. Similar legislation was introduced in the 92nd Congress by Colorado Senator Gordon Allott. It was pocket vetoed by the President. |
