Today, with the signing of the Clean Air Act Amendments and Solid Waste Disposal Act, we are redoubling our efforts.

This act will require all 1968 model automobiles--including the foreign models that are sold here--to meet Federal control standards for exhaust.

We made a hopeful beginning toward solving this problem with the Clean Air Act of 1963.

Section 106 of Executive Order No. 11157 of June 22, 1964, is hereby amended by inserting '(a)' immediately after 'Sec. 106.'

In computing the incentive pay of members of a submarine operational command staff under this subsection (1) for fractions of a calendar month, the time required to be served during underway operations shall bear the same ratio to the time…

Today we make our beginning.

I have today issued an Executive Order transferring the duties of the Director of the Food-for-Peace Program to the Secretary of State.

This bill gives us the tools to halt pollution before it starts in new industries.

This has become a health problem that is national in scope.

Today, we are taking another large and forward step in this direction.

I regard the Food-for-Peace Program as the primary tool in our battle against hunger and privation abroad.

This bill creates a Federal research and technical assistance program to seek ways of disposing of the millions of tons of solid wastes that we generate each year.

The air that is the very essence of life has become a carrier for disease and for early death.

Well, to those of you here in this room-members and leaders of both parties--this morning I join you in saying that together we intend to rewrite that chapter of history.

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, we have been systematically polluting our air.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by Sections 301 (a) and (f) of Title 37 of the United States Code and as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States

The time has now come to simplify and strengthen its operation within the Executive Branch--a step which I have taken today.

In the United States alone it accounts for more than $11 billion in economic damages.