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Show Cleaner Air Week Set for October 20-26 Governor Calvin L. Rampton has declared the week of October Oct-ober 20-26 CLEANER AIR WEEK. During CLANER AIR WEEK Utah joins the rest of the nation na-tion in an appraisal of air pollution poll-ution problems and progress. Of the approximately one hundred hun-dred and thirty-three million tons of air pollutants released in the aid each year in the United States, the majority, sixty-four per cent, come from automobiles, trucks and buses. Another seventeen per cent come from manufacturing industries. in-dustries. The balance is from electric power generating plants, from the heating of homes, apartment houses and office buildings, and from burning of trash and garbage. State and local governing agencies, as well as private organizations, have given increased in-creased attention to the nature of air pollution factors since the 1967 legislation for air conservation. con-servation. In Utah the effort to control air pollution has been aided by U.S. Public Health Service grants; it is expected that these grants will be continued. In September 1967 the Utah State Board of Health endorsed the action of the state's new Air Conservation Committee which urged that all open burning be prohibited at sites used as community disposal areas. This prohibition is to be accomplished through ordinances ordinan-ces adopted by cities, towns and counties. Recently the Air Conservation Conserva-tion Committee prepared a proposal pro-posal on regulation of open burning. This proposal has been discussed in seven public hearings hear-ings throughout the state; the proposed regulation will be reviewed re-viewed in fight of comments made at those hearings prior to adoption by the committee. Grant Winn, Ph.D., Executive Execut-ive Secretary of theAir Conservation Con-servation Committee has made a special request to each citizen citi-zen of the state. Dr. Winn suggests that individuals can help to improve air quality by refraining from burning weeds, trash and garbage and (Continued on page 2) Cleaner Air Week (Continued from page 1) leaves.. "This can appreciably prevent particulate air pollution," pollu-tion," Dr. Winn said, "especially "espec-ially with temperature inversions inver-sions beginning in the valleys. Tons of leaves will be coverted into airborne chemicals and smoke particles if burning is continued," he said. |