The Bureau of Land Management has established Environmental 

 Assessment Teams of oceanographers, marine biologists, geologists, 

 regional planners, and others in New Orleans, Los Angeles, 

 Anchorage, and New York City. The teams assemble and analyze 

 environmental and socioeconomic data for impact statements and 

 establish liaison with State and local groups and with universities to 

 assess non-Federal OCS research activities. To further implement 

 the lease program, the Bureau of Land Management has undertaken a 

 broad-based effort to establish baseline information for existing and 

 proposed lease areas and pipeline corridors. This constitutes the 

 first phase of a planned program to monitor and evaluate the 

 environmental effects of future development. The Bureau of Sport 

 Fisheries and Wildlife* also provides biological expertise to the OCS 

 leasing program. It prepares reports that describe important fish and 

 wildlife resources and the potential effects of mineral development 

 operations on them in areas of proposed lease sajes, recommends 

 means of avoiding or minimizing harm to these resources; and 

 designs biological sampling and monitoring programs that may be 

 required in connection with provisions of special lease stipulations. 



Major EPA FY '74 efforts are aimed at controlling pollution 

 problems in four geographically important coastal areas: the effects 

 of digested municipal sewage sludge dumped in the New York Bight, 

 effects of treated municipal sewage discharges in the Los Angeles 

 Bight, heavy metal transport and accumulation in Southeast coastal 

 ecosystems, and persistent organic and other pollutant 

 accumulations in Puget Sound. The program has resulted in the 

 development of a predictive model for use in vertically stratified 

 estuaries, the establishment of a multiparameter barge dumping and 

 particulate dispersion model, and the development of the design 

 principles used in nearly every modern municipal ocean outfall. 



EPA is also attempting to establish methods of identifying oil by 

 chemical techniques and develop technology to contain and clean up 

 spills. This work includes spectrometric quantification of oil in 

 water and sediments; chromatographic quantification of oil in 

 sediments; development and test of prototype containment units; 

 development and test of prototype systems for oil cleanup including 

 foams, discs, belts, spraybooms, and solvent materials. 



NSF's Research Applied to National Needs Program supports 

 three regional studies of coastal zone pollutants with the aim of 

 contributing to the practical solution of management problems. In 

 one of these projects, a four-institution consortium in the 

 Chesapeake Bay area is studying domestic waste problems with the 



* Note: BSFW became The Fish and Wildlife Service on July 1, 1974. 

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