Paul W. McKee, Director

Henry Silbermann, Public Health Engineer, I
Guy E. Lerner, Public Health Engineer, I
Robert W. Pierce, Public Health Engineer, II
Edwin C. Weber, Public Health Engineer, II
Sylvin Belkov, Public Health Engineer, II
Jack V. Schultheis, Chemist
C. N. Kutson, Chemist
Ronald E. Hawkins, Chemist

2114 N. Charles St., Baltimore 18 Telephone: Belmont 5-0167

The Water Pollution Control Commission was created in 1947
upon the recommendation of the temporary Committee on Water
Pollution, which had been designated to study the problem of water
pollution in 1945. The Commission consists of seven members, three
of whom are appointed by the Governor for six-year terms. The
other four members are the Chairman of the Board of Natural Re.
sources, the Director of the Department of Game and Inland Fish,
the Director of the Department of Research and Education, and a
representative of the State Board of Health. The Chairman, who
must be one of the appointed members, is designated by the Governor.

The Commission makes regulations to prevent the pollution of
Maryland streams and waters. It investigates all sources of stream
pollution. It may request known polluters to correct the situation,
and should they fail to comply, the Commission may order them to
fulfill the request within a definite period of time. Any polluter who
has a complaint or feels a specific hardship in complying may receive
a hearing before the Commission. The Commission has collected
data about municipal sewage disposal and about stream pollution
in the various regions of the State and is currently making a survey
of industrial waste disposal. The agency maintains, at 2114 N.
Charles Street, a laboratory where it determines the amount and
cause of water pollution through chemical and bacterial analysis
(Code 1951, Art. 66C, secs. 35-43),

Appropriations 1957 1958

General Funds ....................$83,211 $85,748
Staff: 11

STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE

Chairman: Gordon M. Cairns, Dean of Agriculture

University of Maryland

Ex Officio Members: Thomas B. Symons, State Board of Agri-
culture; Irvin C. Haut, Director, Agricultural Experiment
Station; Paul E. Nystrom, Director, Agricultural Extension
Service; Joseph F. Kaylor, Director, Department of Forests
and Parks; Edward M. Davis, State Conservationist, U. S.
Soil Conservation Service.

Appointed Members: Harry H. Rieck, 1958; William R. Powel,
1958
Fred L. Bull, Secretary

College Park Telephone: Warfield 7-3800

The State Soil Conservation Committee, established in 1987, con-
sists of the Chairman of the State Board of Agriculture, the Director
of the Agricultural Experiment Station, the Director of the Agricul-
ture Extension Service, the Dean of the College of Agriculture, the
Director of the Department of Forests and Parks, the State Conser-