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NORMAN J. MacDONALD 

 today the Corps of Engineers does have a vested interest. 

 We are often criticized for the spoil which we throw up 

 when we go into our dredging operations, and I believe that 

 with proper control of some of this effluent it will make 

 it much less critical in our operation if we do not have 

 these sludge deposits on the bottom. And so from that 

 standpoint, we would be very much interested in the con- 

 trol of these effluents. 



Another area where we would be interested 

 would be in the area of permits. Any work which is to be 

 undertaken in navigable waters requires a permit from the 

 Corps of Engineers, and just recently we have entered into 

 an agreement with the Department of Interior, FWPCA , to 

 become involved with them prior to issuing a permit to see 

 to it that anyone who is given a permit will live within 

 the water quality standards adopted primarily by the State 

 agencies involved, and since some of these permits may be 

 issued for areas involved in the study, it would make it 

 much easier in the issuing of permits and for contractor"? 

 and others to live up to requirements if these sliu'.o 

 deposits could be held to a rainimuTi .^rid if, as a matter 

 of fact, they could be eliminated. 



JO again I would like to say that we do 



have a distinct interest in the water quality of Puget 



