approach embodied in the CWA but not yet generally applied to estuaries and coastal waters. An expanded version could include a focus, on additional measures of environmental health, such as habitat quality. Such a framework would involve identifying the water bodies that need additional management, establishing site-specific goals and evaluating progress, and developing management plans and deciding if a national program to coordinate such development is necessary. Some observers may contend that we already have sufficient statutory authority to develop and implement site-specific water body management where needed. Indeed, many of the major components of a framework for identifying troubled water bodies and devel-
oping management plans already exist in numerous institutional forms; these include the Water Quality Act of 1987, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the EPA’s internal planning initiative on near-coastal waters. Although the Water Quality Act focused primarily on the issue of federal funding of municipal treatment plant construction, it also formally authorized EPA’s ongoing National Estuary Program and mandated a program to identify toxic hot spots. Thus major new legislation may not be needed. Instead, the issue at hand is whether the relevant provisions will be used effectively, both environmentally and economically. If we are to develop a cost-effective framework that is both flexible and systematic, we need to overcome bureaucratic inertia and
move toward consolidation and integration of these sometimes disparate efforts. Without such movement, future decades will likely reap a sorry and bitter crop - more degradation in our estuaries and coastal waters. Howard Levenson is an analyst at the congressional Ofice of Technology Assessment. He was the project director of the report “Wastesin Marine Environments.”
References (1) “Wastes in Marine Environments”; Office of Technology Assessment. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1986; OTA-0-334; GPA stock no. 052-0030 1062-3. (2) “Ocean Incineration”; Office of Technology Assessment. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.,1986; OTA-O313: GPO stock no. 052-003-01046-1.
Environmental division news Report porn the ACS meeting in New Orleans The Division of Environmental Chemistry for the first time won the best large division award of the ACS for 1986. At the Sept. 29 dinner of the Divisional Officers Group (DOG), annual awards were presented to recognize the best small, middle-sized, and large divisions of the ACS. Plaques were presented to the following people of the environmental division: Don Johnson, chairman; Dean Adams, chairmanelect; Gordon Bellen, secretary; Clarence Haile, treasurer; and Robert Jolley, programming. The division was cited for bringing new members to the society and for its programming, its cooperation with other divisions in support of cosponsored symposia, and its financial health. The immediate past chairman, Roger Minear, was recognized for his contributions to the division and to the activities that helped place the division in the winning spotlight.
Awardees The Division of Environmental Chemistry gives out several awards to honor outstanding papers presented at ACS meetings. For example, an award of excellence recognizes graduate students for papers, presented before the division at a national meeting, that are outstanding both in content and in manner of presentation. The award of excellence consists of a certificate, a check for $500, and an invitation to attend the division dinner, traditionally on Tbesday evening of the meeting. 1054 Environ. Sci. Technol., Vol. 21,No. 11, 1987
Three students were honored for their excellent papers presented in New Orleans: Allen I! Davis of the University of Delaware for his paper “Anodic Dissolution of Lead Sulfide Single Crystal in Simple Electrolyte Solutions”; Wen H. Pan of Portland State University for his paper “A SteadyState Analysis of Unpolluted Tropospheric HO, Chemistry”; and Frank M. Dunnivant of Clemson University for his paper “Aqueous Solubility and Henry’s Law Constant Data for PCB Congeners for Evaluation of Quantitative Structure-Property Relationships.” The Division of Environmental Chemistry also awards a certificate of merit to authors for their first papers presented at a national ACS meeting. At the division dinner in New Orleans, five certificates of merit were awarded for outstanding papers presented at the previous ACS meeting in Denver. The recipients were Jennifer Field (with E.M. Thurman) of the U.S. Geological Survey for her paper, “Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonates in GroundwaterPotential for Co-Isolation with Humic Substances”; Steven B. Hawthorne (with David J. Miller) of the University of North Dakota Energy Research Center for his paper, “Comparison of Supercritical Fluid Solvents for the Extraction and Recovery of PAHs from Environmental Solids”; Geneva M. Omann (with Larry A. War) of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation for her paper, “Spectrofluorometric Analysis of Cell Responses”; Angel L. Rivera of Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, for his paper, “Analysis and Planning of Integrated Waste Management Systems”; and Thomas H. Row (with Cynthia M. Kendrick) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, for his paper, “The Oak Ridge Model: A Case Study in Waste Management Trends.”
E S t T editors Russell F. Christman, editor of ES&T since 1975, received two certificates of appreciation at the evening dinner. The first certificate, for service to the field of environmental science, was presented by Ellen Gonter, head of the awards program of the Environmental Division. The second certificate, for service as editor of ES&T, was presented by Michael Bowen, director of the ACS Books and Journals Division. William H. Glaze of the the University of California at Los Angeles will become editor of ES&T effective Jan. 1, 1988. Richard Zepp of EPA in Athens, Ga. is the new editor of EnvirofACS, the divisions’s newsletter that is issued before the spring and fall ACS national meetings. The former editor of the newsletter, Alan Elzerman, is on sabbatical at the Colorado School of Mines until next June. Program chairman Robert Jolley of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory noted that there were 11 symposia on environmental chemistry in New Orleans and that 15 symposia are scheduled for the Toronto meeting next June. He welcomes comments on symposia and the increasing number of them.
