Felt tip pen used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign ‘An Act to amend the Federal Water Pollution Act to establish a Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, to provide grants for research and development, to increase grants for construction of sewage treatment works, to require establishment of water quality criteria, and for other purposes” (S. 4). The official 'bill signer' Eversharp pen measures 5.25″ long and features a navy-blue plastic barrel bearing a gold facsimile signature with presidential seal and a silver-tone cap section. Accompanied by the original presentation box with presidential seal and facsimile signature of President Johnson, as well as a typed caption affirming that the pen was one of the “pens used by the President, October 2, 1965, in signing S. 4." In fine condition.
This amendment, deemed the Water Quality Act, was one of several edits to the Federal Water Pollution Act, one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws. The first FWPCA was enacted in 1948 but took on its modern form when completely rewritten in 1972; it’s now known as the Clean Water Act.
