federal aid to Texas
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1976
(AUSTIN — Comptroller Boh Bul-
said an analysis done by his of-
ihows that federal aid to Texas
and local governments has
than tripled since 1966, but
Ins still get back only 82 cents
|)f every dollar they pay in in
taxes that are appropriated to
al aid programs.
Bullock said the analysis lists 41
aidiker states that get better returns
se,;itheir income-tax dollars.
) ns ]However, he pointed out, Texas
hoi fte government alone has already
[ved $1.5 billion in federal funds
odiflJfing the first ten months of the
jtl, e ,pnt fiscal year — representing
about 30 per cent of all state re
venues. !
The analysis offederal aid is part of
the comptroller s June financial
statement.
The monthly financial statement
shows that June’s expenditures of
$403.5 million brought state expen
ditures through the first ten months
of fiscal 1976 to more than $5.3 bill
ion, 17 per cent higher than during
the same period in fiscal 1975.
State revenues, meanwhile, also
total $5.3 billion through June, $660
million more than during the same
period in fiscal 1975, an increase of
11 per cent.
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organic pollutants
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Texas A&M University scientists
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Dr. C. S. Giam, professor of
chemistry and oceanography, is the
principal investigator of the two
projects funded by the National Sci
ence Foundation’s office of Interna
tional Decade of Ocean Exploration.
The two one-year grants total
$153,730.
One of the new projects is on pol
lutant transfer processes in which
Dr. E. Atlas and Dr. H. S. Chan will
be research fellows. The second
grant is for a continuation of a project
entitled “Phthalates and Chlori
nated Hydrocarbons Effects on
Marine Biota” with co-investigator J.
M. Neff, professor of biology, and
research fellow, Dr. T. E. Goodwin.
Our particular interest involves
two aspects,” said Giam. “First is an
investigation of the processes by
which some organic pollutants are
transported from land to the Gulf of
Mexico and, secondly, we want to
look at the biological effects of these
pollutants on marine organisms like
shrimp, crab and fish.
We will provide an estimate of the
flow of pollutants, in this case, to the
Gulf,” he added. “The pollutants of
immediate interest are phthalates
(plasticizer compounds which make
plastic plyable) and another common
class of pollutants, chlorinated hy
drocarbons which included PCB’s
(polychlorinated biphenyls) and the
DDT family.
The second project will try to look
at the biological impact of pollutants
on marine life, including larval de
velopment in shrimp and crabs,”
Neff said. “Also, we ll note accumu
lation and metabolism of these com
pounds by marine organisms in addi
tion to fat metabolism of fish.
There are indications that these
compounds we re looking at are toxic
to fresh-water organisms; however,
their effects on marine organisms
haven’t been established,” Giam
said. “We want to know if there is or
there isn’t a deleterious effect.
The residts of the investigation
may be applied to other organic ma
terials with similar characteristics,”
he said.
Last month Giam and Neff or
ganized the International Confer
ence to Evaluate the Biological Ef
fects of Pollutants on Marine Or
ganisms which was also sponsored by
the NSF and held at Texas A&M.
Topics included reports on the ef
fects of organic pollutants (petro
leum hydrocarbons, industrial
chemicals such as polychlorinated
aromatics, phthalate plasticizers,
vinylchloride and by-products) and
trace metals on physiological,
biochemical, behavioral, chemical
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measures to rationalize and con
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their impact on the whole ecosys
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