4. Policy Adoption

• Summer of 1968 Subcommittee on Science Research and Development published report “Managing the Environment

• Summer of 1968-report titled “A National Policy for the Environment” was published by Senator Jackson, who is said to be the father of the NEPA.

• 1968/1969 Congress was prompted to hold joint and separate House and Senate hearings to consider a national policy for the environment.

• Senator Henry Jackson introduces Senate bill S.1075 in Feb 1969 to his committee which was the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

• Introduced in the House by Congressman John Dingell