2.4.5 Non Federal Programs 



Dr. Edward Goldberg of the University of California (Scripps Institution 

 of Oceanography) directed the collection and analysis of water, sediment 

 and tissue samples from marina's up and down the coast of the State of 

 California between February 1, to June 31, 1986, for tributyltin (TBT) , 

 dibutyltin (DBT) , and monobutyltin (MBT) , (for actual data, see Goldberg, 

 1986 Data Report to the Sate Water Resources Control Board) . These moni- 

 toring activities were sponsored by the University of California Toxic 

 Substances Teaching and Research Program and by the State of California 

 Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento, California (Goldberg, 1986 and 

 Stallard et al. , 1987) . Researchers at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory 

 (Dr. Mark Stephenson) supplemented this study with water samples collected 

 during the Spring and Summer of 1987 from California marinas and from Coos 

 Bay, Oregon (see Stephenson et al., 1986; 1987 and Wolniakowski et al., 

 1987) . Elsewhere on the West coast, the Department of Environmental 

 Quality of the State of Oregon has received a grant from NCAA's National 

 Estuarine Program Office to extensively study organotin concentrations is 

 Coos Bay, beginning the Summer of 1988. 



In the Northern portion of Chesapeake Bay, studies have been supported by 

 the State of Maryland's Department of Natural Resources and the University 

 of Maryland Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies and by Johns 

 Hopkins University (Hall et al., 1987). In the Southern Chesapeake Bay, a 

 group from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has been monitoring 

 marinas, boatyards, creeks and the Elizabeth River and Hampton Roads 

 Virginia areas (Huggett et al. , 1986 and Unger et al. , 1987) . 



2.4.6 Federal Coordination and Cooperation 



There have been two major areas of Federal cooperation and coordination. 

 The first was the formulation of an ad-hoc interagency committee which 

 organized the Organotin Workshop that was hosted by NCAA's National Marine 

 Pollution Program Office and was held at the U.S. Naval Academy in 

 Annapolis, MD, during June 1986. The second has been the cooperative 

 funding of the OCEANS '86 and '87 Organotin Symposia. The first symposium 

 was held in Washington, D.C. September 23-25, 1986 and the second was held 

 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada September 28, to October 1, 1987. These 

 Symposia have been funded jointly by Navy, EPA, NCAA and NSF. 



The purpose of these Symposia were to bring together researchers from many 

 disciplines, regulators, policy and decision makers from around the world 

 to provide a forum for the exchange of research findings, methods used and 

 to discuss and review data and results of studies and regulatory actions, 

 and information necessary for policy and decision-making. Each symposium 

 has a Proceedings of published papers that address scientific, management 

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