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In summary, MEDEA activities directly relate to the problem of 

 ocean dumping of radioactive and toxic wastes in three ways. First, 

 MEDEA and the intelligence community have demonstrated the ca- 

 pability of national security systems to detect and monitor pollut- 

 ant spills, to characterize the local terrain near the spill, and to use 

 this information to predict the impact of the spill outside of the im- 

 mediate area. 



Second, a number of MEDEA activities are extracting oceanic in- 

 formation from national security systems and Navy data bases that 

 characterize the processes needed to model circulation and trans- 

 port of pollution. This environmental information can be used to 

 improve existing circulation models and thereby improve their pre- 

 diction of toxic waste transport. 



Third, the working interaction between the scientific community 

 and the national security community has enabled a rapid response 

 with more complete information to environmentally-related policy 

 questions. This, plus the greater openness of the intelligence com- 

 munity that has allowed results from national security systems to 

 be discussed in an open forum, was used successfully in the Komi 

 oil spill study and may be a useful model for addressing future pol- 

 lutant problems. Thank you. 



[The prepared statement of Dr. Gershwin follows:] 



