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State of New Jersey 

 Department of Environmental Protection and Energy 



Policy and Planning 



CN418 



Trenton. NJ0862S-0418 



Tel. #609-292-1254 



Scott A Weiner Fax. # 609-777-0942 Richard V. Sinding 



Commissioner Assistant Commissioner 



May 3, 1993 



Honorable Solomon P. Ortiz, Chairman 



Subcommittee on Oceanography, 



Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer 



Continental Shelf 



U.S. House of Representatives 



Merchant Marine and Fisheries 



Room 1334, Longworth House Office Building 



Washington, D.C. 20515-6230 



Dear Congressman Ortiz: 



Thank you very much for allowing me the opportunity to appear before 

 your Subcommittee on Oceanography, Gulf of Mexico, and the Outer Continental 

 Shelf on Tuesday, March 30, 1993. I believe the inquiry which your 

 subcommittee is conducting is both timely and significant, and I appreciated 

 the reception afforded me and representatives of other public agencies 

 involved in the issue of ocean disposal of contaminated dredged material. 



I have reviewed the list of questions which you and subcommittee members 

 were kind enough to forward to me following the March 30 hearing, and am 

 pleased to enclose my responses to these questions. If there is any 

 additional information which you or subcommittee members uay require with 

 regard to any of these questions, or if there are additional questions which 

 you would like to pose, I will be more than happy to answer them. 



Thank you again for allowing the New Jersey Department of Environmental 

 Protection and Energy to participate in this important process. 



Richard V. Sinding 

 Assistant Commissioner 



