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FISCAL YEAR 1972 PROGRAM PLAN FOR OCEAN DISPOSAL RESEARCH 

 [Dollar amounts in thousands] 



Positions 



(12K/ 



year, at 



lapsed 



Project Program office rate) Grants Contracts 



Objective No. 1 — Determine the size and nature of the 

 ocean and Great Lake disposal problem: 



(1) Identify sources and amounts of municipal and SWO/WQO 



Industrial sludges, dredge spoils, and other 

 wastes.! 



(2) Characterize disposed materials for each disposal WQO: 



site (physical, chemical, biological, and bac- 1607 1 $100 



teriological characteristics). 6112 1 75 



Objective No. 2 — Establish scientific criteria for disposal 

 site selection: 



(A) Determine natural ecology: ^ 



(1) Establish natural marine preserves and NOAA, Interior, Smith- 



sanctuaries. sonian Institution, 



WQO 



(2) Determine natural ecology-food web WQO, NSF, AEC, Smith- 



systems. sonian Institution. 



(3) Delineate biologically critical areas WQO, Interior, NOAA 



(B) Determine effects in existing disposal sites: 



(1) Study the physical and geochemical WQO: 



character and extent of deposits (con- 1607 1 $200 



tinuestudiesof New York Bight, initiate 1612 1 75 



studies in Pacific, Guld of Mexico, and 

 Great Lakes. 



(2) Characterize water circulation at disposal WQO: 



sites (initiate multilayer circulation 1607 1 150 



model of coastal waters and plan field 1612 50 



measurements). 



(3) Characterize and chemically analyze the WQO: 



benthic biota in disposal sites. 1602 2 



1607 1 182 



1805 1 



(4) Determine the time/space distribution of WQO: 



bacteria and viruses. 1602_ 



1607. 



1808 1 



1612 75 



Objective No. 3— Establish marine water quality criteria for 

 disposal sites: 



(1) Determine toxicity effects of sludges and their WQO: 



constituents— organic and inorganic (marine 1607 



and freshwater). 1805 2 75 



1808 3 75 



(2) Develop testing protocol for use by waste disposers WQO: 



in permit applications. 1607 1 



1 1808 1 



Objective No. 4 — Establish monitoring systems for ocean 

 disposal: 2 



(1) Develop site monitoring techniques WQO, USCG, NASA, 



NOAA, NOIC&NODC 



(2) Develop water quality sampling procedures and 



sensorsforestuaries, coastal waters, open ocean, 

 and Great Lakes. 



(3) Establish and maintain ocean pollution data man- 



agement system. 

 Objective No. 5— Establish environmentally optimum 

 dumping methods: 

 (A) Characterize methods: 



(1) Survey and study existing operational WQO-1607 25 



technology and effects. 



(2) Scale model proposed methods 



(3) Conduct full-scale demonstrations 



Objective No. 6— Establish optimum waste management 



procedures relative to ocean dumping. 



(1) Develop and demonstrate alternatives to ocean WQO,SWO 



dumping. 



WQO-1707. 1 100 



(2) Study beneficial uses of wasted WQO-1607 



(3) Develop marine restoration techniques WQO: 



1607 



1707 : __.. 



Objective No. 7— Program coordination and management: WQO Headquarters 3 



Coordinate, Plan and Manage Ocean Disposal R. & DA 



> This may have already been done. 



' During the 1st year, headquarters will plan the program with other agencies. 

 3 During the 1st year, a program plan will be developed by headquarters. 

 i Includes 1 secretary. 



