—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 18, 1974
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Water-Waste Disposal
Grants To Increase
Secretary of Agriculture
Earl L. Butz has announced
that as a result of a
Department survey $l2O
million in grant funds are
being added to the record
$5OO million in Farmers
Home Administration
(FmHA) loans and grants
currently available for rural
water and waste disposal
systems in the 1974 fiscal
year (FY) endmg June 30,
1974. This action brings the
total of rural water and
waste disposal grants
available for FY 1974 to $l5O
million, an increase of $l2O
million over the amount used
in FY 1973.
The Secretary pointed out
that FmHA had made a
survey of grant needs in
connection with water and
waste disposal projects early
in this calendar year as the
result of the release of some
$3O million in grant funds to
communities unable to
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secure funds from other
sources.
The survey found that
there were many financially
needy communities which
presently lack sewer and
water systems, and are not
able to proceed on a “loan
only” basis because most of
the families to be served by
such systems lack sufficient
income to pay the higher
“loan only” rates. As a
result, the Department
arrived at the decision to
make available the ad
ditional $l2O million and is.
preparing regulations which
will target the funds toward
the most needy rural com
munities^
“This further demon
strates our commitment to
the development of rural
communities,” tlTe
Secretary said. “These
additional rural develop
ment funds will permit local
leaders to push ahead with
Grid System Proposed
If you drilled an ex
ploratory hole every twenty
miles across the length and
breadth of the United States
you would hit every “jack
pot” of mineral resources
that it took more than a
century to find by trial-and
error methods.
And you’d have a jackpot
far more valuable-a com
plete inventory of the total
mineral resource potential of
the country.
Dr. John C. Griffiths ex
pounded this drastic and
highly controversial ap
proach to mineral ex-
ploration today at an energy
symposium at The Penn
sylvania State University.
Dr. Griffiths said that
traditional “wildcat”
prospecting has reached a
point of diminishing returns.
Furthermore, it is extremely
wasteful since individual
prospectors--now usually
large corporations-usually
look for a single resource,
say, oil, and either do not see
other mineral possibilities or
neglect them.
water and waste disposal
projects that will make their
communities more at
tractive to industry and
more pleasant places in
which to live. In the present
fiscal year, it means that
$620 million in loans and
grants will have been
available to rural areas to
protect the health and im
prove the living conditions of
residents of rural America.
This compares with $320
million used for this purpose
in fiscal year 1973, the
previous record year for
such assistance.”
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This will help preserve the
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prevent a build-up of grease
and food.
A systematic, broad
spectrum approach based on
a grid system, said Dr.
Griffiths, is the only way to
guarantee adequate
resources for the future.
Some 10,000 exploratory
wells would be required to
"cover” the U.S. if 20-mile
spacing were used. Such
massive drilling, Griffiths
calculates, would cost about
five billion dollars.
There are 23 known “jack
pots”-prime deposits of oil,
lead, copper, etc.-in the
country, each valued at a
billion dollars or more.
“If only five new prizes are
discovered by the grid
method,” he said, “the
massive prospecting
program would pay for it
self.”
More important, ac
cording to Dr. Griffiths,
professor of petrography,
mineral prospecting would
be put on a systematic basis
and would yield a complete
inventory of our potential.
Cores from the ten thousand
holes would be analyzed not
for one but for all known
mineral possibilities, in
cluding fresh water.
Grid-systems, he pointed
out, are in wide use by the
military, either in search for
potential targets, or for
missing submarines, downed
aircraft, etc. A 200-mile
global grid is used by
meteorologists in collecting
data for weather
forecasting.
A grid strategy would take
much of the risk out of
prospecting and would have
important geopolitical
ramifications.
“Only if we know what’s in
the ground,” said Dr.
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drilling was completed, said earth’s crust to the benefit of
Dr. Griffiths, and it would both the theory and the
take only two or three years, practice of exploration.”
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