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concerned with the sanitary production of safe shellfish from high 

 quality estuarine waters. 



The Bureau of Water Hygiene conducts studies on health aspects of 

 the water quality of the marine environment as it relates to shell- 

 fish production, recreation and water resources planning. 



The Bureau of Radiological Health conducts projects on reactor 

 effluent radionuclides in marine ecosystems, radiological surveillance 

 of marine environments, and the passage of radio-elements through 

 sub-tropical marine environment and biota. 



The Bureau of Solid Waste Management is surveying through contract, 

 the ocean disposal problem and expects to produce pollution potential 

 data. A research project in Boston, Massachusetts, is studying the 

 effect upon the marine ecosystem of incinerator residue. 



CATEGORY THREE 

 RESEARCH AI^ID STUDY PROGRAMS 



In Category Three are those agencies whose activities in the 

 estuarine zone are primarily research in nature; namely, the National 

 Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Academ;. 

 of Sciences - National Academy of Engineering. The programs and 

 activities of all three of these organizations are extremely broad 

 and it is only as their activities relate directly to the estuarine 

 zone that we briefly describe them here. 



