Ocean Dumping and Pollution: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Oceanography and the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 493 pages |
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... package of eliminating ocean dumping , and waste disposal in other areas as well , we really ought to be discussing the feasibility of utilizing that waste for some useful purpose . Some parts of the country have water shortages , and ...
... package of eliminating ocean dumping , and waste disposal in other areas as well , we really ought to be discussing the feasibility of utilizing that waste for some useful purpose . Some parts of the country have water shortages , and ...
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... packages might be consistent with the principles we have derived . Classification for ocean disposal would need to consider the ground disposal alternative and vice versa . For example the determination of whether a given transuranic ...
... packages might be consistent with the principles we have derived . Classification for ocean disposal would need to consider the ground disposal alternative and vice versa . For example the determination of whether a given transuranic ...
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... packages dumped by the United States under Atomic Energy Commission- AEC - licensing authority between 1946 and 1970 ? A search of the available records indicated that four dump sites received more than 95 percent of the estimated ...
... packages dumped by the United States under Atomic Energy Commission- AEC - licensing authority between 1946 and 1970 ? A search of the available records indicated that four dump sites received more than 95 percent of the estimated ...
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... out to conduct the precise dumpsite surveys needed to determine the fate of radioactive waste packages dumped in the past . The solution lay with the use of submersibles , either manned or un- manned . CURV III SLIDE 1 SLIDE 2 226.
... out to conduct the precise dumpsite surveys needed to determine the fate of radioactive waste packages dumped in the past . The solution lay with the use of submersibles , either manned or un- manned . CURV III SLIDE 1 SLIDE 2 226.
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... matrices can significantly increase the isolation and containment capability of packages used for any future sea disposal , either domestic or international . MEANDERING CHANNEL UPPER CONTINENTAL RISE ALVIN DIVES 676-680 gho 29 236.
... matrices can significantly increase the isolation and containment capability of packages used for any future sea disposal , either domestic or international . MEANDERING CHANNEL UPPER CONTINENTAL RISE ALVIN DIVES 676-680 gho 29 236.
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activities Administrator amendment assessment authority baseline surveys BLEICHER BREAUX Chairman Coast coastal committee coordination cost countries criteria deadline designation dredged material dumping program dumpsite ecosystems effects efforts emplacement Energy EPA's estuarine Farallon Islands Federal Fisheries FORSYTHE FY 76 FUNDING geological going HESS high-level wastes HUGHES IAEA impact implementation interagency interim permit issue JORLING LABORATORY land-based alternatives legislation low-level waste MANPOWER M-Y marine environment marine pollution Marine Protection marine sanctuary ment million monitoring National NOAA Nuclear Energy Agency nuclear waste ocean disposal ocean dumping Ocean Dumping Act Oceanography offshore operation penalty fee Philadelphia problem proposed question radioactive waste regulations regulatory research and development response Sanctuaries Act Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Channel seabed disposal sediments sewage sludge specific spent fuel statement studies subcommittee surveys Thank tion waste disposal waste management York Bight
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Page 324 - Dredged material" means any material excavated or dredged from the navigable waters of the United States. (J) "High-level radioactive waste" means the aqueous waste resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system, or equivalent and the concentrated waste from subsequent extraction cycles, or equivalent, in a facility for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuels, or irradiated fuel from nuclear power reactors.
Page 286 - Government shall (A) utilize a systematic, interdisciplinary approach which will insure the integrated use of the natural and social sciences and the environmental design arts in planning and in decisionmaking which may have an impact on man's environment...
Page 214 - (1) byproduct materials; "(2) source materials; "(3) special nuclear materials in quantities not sufficient to form a critical mass.
Page 214 - Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended, and...
Page 458 - Now, therefore, be it Resolved, by the Council of the City of San Diego, as follows: That the...
Page 324 - The effect on alternate uses of oceans, such as scientific study, fishing, and other living resource exploitation, and non-living resource exploitation.
Page 58 - State, or local significance as so determined by such officials unless (1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use of such land, and (2) such program includes all possible planning to minimize harm to such park, recreational area, wildlife and waterfowl refuge, or historic site resulting from such use.
Page 287 - Radio-active wastes or other radio-active matter not included in Annex I. In the issue of permits for the dumping of this matter, the Contracting Parties should take full account of the recommendations of the competent international body in this field, at present the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Page 324 - The effect of such dumping on human health and welfare, including economic, esthetic, and recreational values. (C) The effect of such dumping on fisheries resources, plankton, fish, shellfish, wildlife, shore lines and beaches. (D) The effect of such dumping on marine ecosystems, particularly with respect to — (i) the transfer, concentration, and dispersion of such material and its byproducts through biological, physical, and chemical processes, (ii) potential changes in marine ecosystem diversity,...
Page 216 - Dumping" means a disposition of material: Provided, That it does not mean a disposition of any effluent from any outfall structure to the extent that such disposition is regulated under the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended 33 USC...