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Ocean Dumping Act of 1972, we are not to dump materials in the 

 ocean that degrade the marine environment. 



So there is not a waste crisis that is pushing this industry. What 

 we can do is prevent the waste from being created in the first part 

 and pursue a different Federal program that has been on the books 

 since 1987, which is the development of technologies to clean up 

 contaminated sediments, not to put them in bags and dump them 

 in the ocean or put them in containers and dump them in the 

 ocean but clean them up so they can be safely disposed of 



The groups that I work with around the country strongly support 

 that program and that approach to waste management rather than 

 opening up the oceans for a variety of wastes. Thank you for the 

 opportunity to testify. 



[The prepared statement of Ms. Millemann follows:] 



