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In recent years, considerable progress has been made in reducing pollution in the US. The cost of clean-up was not critical during this period, when large gains could be made at relatively low cost; but the Law of Diminishing Returns is now at work, the phase having been entered where small incremental improvements are inordinately costly. Government estimates indicated that in 1977, the environmental laws cost each US family $600, & that by 1986, the cost per family will be $1,300 (in 1977 dollars). The family will receive little or no health benefit from this additional expenditure, but will have less to spend on food, shelter, & medical care. Today we see a growing awareness in both Congress & the Administration that the billions of dollars spent on environmental control will add to inflation, retard economic development, & inhibit job formation. The urgent need is for the people -- the families who must carry the cost burden -- to communicate their concern to their representatives in Washington. 2 Figures. HA.

A chapter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed foreign assistance, focusing on the: (1) use of the Compact of Free Association funding by the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) between fiscal years 1987 and 1998; (2) progress both nations have made in advancing economic self-sufficiency; (3) role of Compact funds in supporting economic progress; and (4) extent of accountability by the two nations and the United States over Compact expenditures."