Quote – William S. Lee, Vice President for Engineering, Duke Power Co., on Behalf of Edison Electric Institute, Testimony, Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Senate Committee on Public Works.

To remove jurisdiction of thermal discharges to the higher Federal level offers no evident benefits in the public interest, and on the contrary our experience has shown that it will lead to decisionmaking[sic] on the basis of arbitrary formulas without giving proper weight to the local conditions that do affect public interest.

Statement of William S. Lee, Vice President for Engineering, Duke Power Co., on Behalf of Edison Electric Institute [an investor-owned electric utility that served 80 percent of US market], pgs. 569-582, esp. 571, in “Water Pollution—1970 (Part 2),” Hearings, Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution of the Senate Committee on Public Works.

Tuesday, April 28, 1970
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