I welcome this positive step.

We can continue to protect our national parks and our major national wilderness areas and national monuments from the degradation of air pollution.

I believe that the Congress, under the leadership of Senator Muskie and Representative Rogers, has adopted a sound and comprehensive program for achieving and preserving healthy air in our Nation.

This is unprecedented progress.

This act is the culmination of a 3-year effort by the Congress to develop legislation which will continue our progress toward meeting our national clean air goals in all parts of the country.

Without wasting the taxpayers' dollars on the Clinch River facility, we will be able to implement a breeder research program.

The act provides us with a new tool to help abate industrial sources of pollution by authorizing use of economic incentives to reduce noncompliance.

If the Palestinians will recognize the applicability of the United Nations Resolution 242, then it would open up a new opportunity for us to start discussions with them.

We will fund major research on alternative breeder technologies, improved safety systems, and other advanced atomic power sources.

I will urge Congress to reject proposals leading to an investment of over $2.2 billion of tax dollars in the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Project.

This timetable will be enforced.

The biggest obstacle that we've detected, of course, is whether or not the Palestinians would participate in the discussions.

I am signing H.R. 7553, the public works appropriations bill.

This bill is a precedent-setting first step in trimming spending on unnecessary, expensive, and environmentally damaging construction projects.

That they may adopt U.N. Resolution 242, which does recognize Israel's right to exist permanently and in peace with secure borders.

Those industries which delay installing abatement equipment will no longer be rewarded in the marketplace.

We are not going to meet with the Palestinian leaders as long as they are committed to the destruction of Israel.

I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 6161, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977.