ABSTRACT
The National Environmental Policy Act has been in existence, the Federal, state and local governments have moved vigorously in the direction of cleaning up the environment. These agencies have experienced some short-range success in various areas by focusing on the more obvious and more easily remedied environmental problems, the more pervasive problems become more paramount. This panel shall focus on two of these problems, both of which are in the area of environmental management. The first is a realization that the long-run environmental problem is not going to be simply cleaning up our air and our streams, but is, rather, going to be in prevention mode and, in a lower key, will include an increasingly demanding search for institutional change. Second is the ever more obvious fact that, although the Federal Government can give direction in terms of standards, the real solutions are at the regional and local levels.
