(4) identify technologies and management 

 practices necessary to control the pollution; 



(5) identify costs of and impediments to implementing 

 such technologies and management programs; 



(6) devise an implementation schedule; 



(7) develop recommendations for funding and for 

 interagency and intergovernmental coordination; and 



(8) assess alternatives to ocean dumping of 

 municipal sludge and timber burning. 



The guiding principles for the development of 

 the plan include the following: 



a. The plan will provide the 

 overall umbrella for management of 

 Bight water quality. It will 

 provide a Bight-wide ecosystem 

 perspective within which more 

 detailed site-specific solutions 

 developed through ongoing programs 

 and studies can be orchestrated. 



b. The plan will place priority on the 

 control of those pollutants 



most directly associated with 

 important water use impairments. 



c. The plan will build upon remedial 

 programs already underway under the 

 requirements of the Clean Water Act, the 

 Marine Protection, Research and 

 Sanctuaries Act, and other related 

 Federal, State, and local legislation. 

 It will assess the extent to which those 

 efforts are adequate to meet water 

 quality and public health goals and will 

 recommend such additional measures as 

 may be required. Impacts resulting in 

 beach closures and impairments, unsafe 

 seafoods, damage to commercial and 

 recreational fisheries, damage to marine 

 mammals, birds, and reptiles, and 

 effects on commercial navigation and 

 recreational boating will be assessed. 



Recent attention by legislators and the media has focused on 

 perceived problems with ocean dumping. The 106 Mile Site, for 

 example, has been "held responsible" for 70 percent decreases in 

 offshore fisheries catches, diseases in crabs and lobsters, 

 dolphin deaths, and floating debris washing up on New Jersey 



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