During the next five years a series of actions must be taken to
control the Basin's most immediate pollution problems:

(1) Coordination of Federal, State and local powers, in cooperation
with any Basin compact commission or other agency that may be
established, to achieve waste treatment measures as required in
appropriate standards and comparable levels for intrastate waters.
This will call for removal of at least 85 percent of the organic
load, or its equivalent, from all municipal and industrial wastes
throughout the Basin, besides adequate chlorination of all treated
wastes, except that in the Washington metropolitan area at least 90
percent removal will be required because of the volume of wastes
involved and their effects upon the estuary. The means toward these
goals will consist of new plant construction, additions to
existing plants, and control of combined sewer overflows. Regional
or watershed approaches to the extension or improvement of these
systems should be encouraged. Improved collection systems and
treatment facilities also must be supported by effective training,
certification and supervision of operators of the sewerage systems
of all jurisdictions.

(2) Stimulation of effective action toward meeting similar
requirements in handling wastes at all Federal establishments in
the Basin, consistent with the nationwide program called for by the
Water Pollution Control Executive Order. Where possible, wastes
from Federal establishments should be channeled into municipal
sewer systems. Adequate budgets for waste disposal at such
establishments are a prime necessity, so that Federal agencies will
be the pace setters that they must be.

(3) Immediate reconvening of the 1957 Enforcement Conference on the
Potomac to focus attention on the timetables for controlling
pollution in the estuary in the light of water quality standards
and also to consider problems of agricultural pollution, sediment,
nutrients, dredging and vessel wastes.

(4) Strengthening of the continuing surveillance program on all
streams in the Basin to insure compliance with water quality
standards and to help correct abuses from leaks, spills, and
illegal or accidental polluting discharges. Active participation by
local, State and interstate agencies with the Fed