other nonprofit organizations, 58.6%. The shift from "basic" to "pragmatic" research continues, Battelle comments. Particularly in industry the shift has been toward "defensive research" because of growing governmental emphasis on environmental protection, occupational safety and health, and consumer safeguards. D
Bloch retains board chair, Hader secretary Dr. Herman S. Bloch will be chairman of the ACS Board of Directors in 1977. He was elected to his fifth consecutive year in the office by his fellow board members at the board's meeting in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. In other actions at the meeting the board made one change in the elected membership of its Executive Committee and made changes in the chairmanship of two of its standing committees. The board also elected Rodney N. Hader to the newly formalized position of secretary of the society. Bloch has been the director from Region V, the upper Midwest, since 1971. Last month he was elected by ACS members residing in the region to a third three-year term. He is a research executive with UOP. The three elected members of the board's Executive Committee for 1977 will be Dr. Mary L. Good and Dr. Bryce Crawford Jr., who served last year, and Dr. Pauline Newman, who will succeed Dr. William J. Bailey. Ex-officio members will be Bloch, president Henry A. Hill, and president-elect Anna J. Harrison. Next year Good will relinquish chairmanship of the board's Committee on Publications to Dr. Robert R. Parry. She will succeed Dr. John C. Sheehan, who will no longer be on the board, as chairman of the Finance Committee. Other chairmanships will remain unchanged: Dr. Gardner W. Stacy retains Education & Students, Dr. Raymond P. Mariella retains Public, Professional & Member Relations, Newman retains Grant & Awards, and Crawford continues to head the committee on CAS. Hader joined the ACS staff in 1950 as an associate editor in the society's Chicago office. He served in many managerial and editorial positions for the society's publications program, including editorship of the Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry from 1956 until 1964, before being appointed assistant to the president in 1971, executive assistant to the ex-
public comment. Only a few were addressed in the two-day meeting. Among the issues debated was whether chemicals should be treated as classes or as individuals. Another was the question of how claims of confidentiality should be handled when a manufacturer gives notice to EPA that it intends to market a new chemical. Dr. William Sherman of the American Paper Institute believes that claims of confidentiality regarding planned uses, for competitive reasons, should be "rigidly upheld." Environmental Defense Fund's Jackie Warren argues that the public has a right to know the intended use of a new chemical. Quarles, although admitting that there appears to be a conflict, questions how EPA would be able to judge the risk of a chemical to Hader: secretary post formalized the public if it isn't told what the ecutive director in 1972, and secretary planned use is. And George S. Domto the board in 1974. inguez, who is with Ciba-Geigy and is He has essentially carried out the chairman of the Manufacturing duties of secretary of the society since Chemists Association's chemical 1970. But establishment of the office regulatory advisory committee, points of the secretary, which was approved out that there must be a balance bein principle by the board in 1970, was tween the need for justifiable public not formalized by the board and notice and commensurate preservacouncil until this fall. D tion of justifiable trade secrets. ACS's Harrison offered the services of the society to EPA in implementing the act. The society, she says, is Open hearings start on prepared to cooperate with the agency in the "adaptation and detoxic substances rules velopment of computerized inforThe Environmental Protection mation systems to compile, store, and Agency's first public meeting on the expeditiously access the great mass of implementation of the toxic sub- information inherent in the implestances control act last week had a mentation of the act." Further, ACS record turnout. Participants included will have available in the near future industry representatives, environ- a roster of chemists who have a "wide mentalists, private citizens, and Dr. spectrum of scientific skills and exAnna J. Harrison, who will be presi- ceptional competences in the areas dent of the American Chemical So- related to chemical toxicity." This roster is being developed for internal ciety in 1978. EPA deputy administrator John R. ACS use, but the society, Harrison Quarles Jr. made a plea for further pledges, will be willing to search this dialogue and written comments. The roster in response to specific requests D agency had identified 99 issues for from EPA.
Outlook bright for offshore oil and gas Newly leased areas on the U.S. outer continental shelf (OCS) could produce enough additional oil to reduce oil import requirements 10 to 15% in 1980 and 10 to 30% in 1985. Additional natural gas from these newly leased areas could alleviate a 1980 U.S. gas shortfall as much as 40%. The anticipated 1985 shortfall could be reduced at least 36% and possibly may be eliminated altogether. But tapping this lucrative source of oil and gas won't be easy. And it won't be cheap. These forecasts are contained in a recently released report prepared by
Arthur D. Little Inc. for the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM). ADL's projections are based on the most recent (1975) resource estimates of the U.S. Geological Survey and BLM's proposed leasing schedule through 1978. The figures presuppose
No Dec. 27 issue Chemical & Engineering News will not publish an issue on Dec. 27, 1976. The editors wish all readers a very happy holiday season. Our next issue will be Jan. 3, 1977.
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