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Mr. DiNGELL. Gentlemen, the committee is grateful to you for your 

 presence today, and for your very helpful statement. 



We thank you very much. 



Mr. Wakelin". Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. DiNGELL. Our next witness is Brig. Gen. George Hayes, Deputy 

 Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health and Enviromnent, accom- 

 panied by Brig. Gen. Kiohard H. Groves, and Eear Adm. E. E. Craw- 

 ford, U.S. Navy. 



Gentlemen, you are certainly welcome here to the committee. If you 

 will identify yourselves by name and duty, for our reporter for the 

 purpose of the record, we will be happy to recognize you for such 

 statements as you may give. 



Is there anyone else among your staff associates you would like to 

 have at the witness table with you ? 



General Hayes. Not at this time. 



Mr. Dingell. All right, you may feel free to call on such members 

 of your staff as you wish, and if you will identify yourselves for our 

 reporter here, we would be m.ost happy to recognize you. 



STATEMENT OF BRIG. GEN. GEOEGE J. HAYES, M.C., U.S. AEMY 

 PUnrCIPAL DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECEETAEY OE DEFENSE FOR 

 HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT; REAR ADM. E. R. CRAWFORD, 

 U.S. NAVY ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS 

 (LOGISTICS), AND BRIG. GEN. RICHARD H. GROVES, DEPUTY 

 DIRECTOR OF CIVIL WORKS, OFFICE, CHIEF OF ENGINEERS, 

 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 



General Hates. Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I am 

 Brig. Gen. George J. Hayes, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 

 of Defense, Health and Environment. 



AVith me are Rear Adm. Earl R. Crawford, Assistant Deputy Chief 

 of Naval Operations, and Brig. Gen. Richard H. Groves, Deputy 

 Director, Civil Works, Office of the Chief of Engineers. 



I welcome the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss 

 the views of the Department of Defense on H.R. 4Y23, a bill to regulate 

 the dumping of materials in the oceans, coastal, and other waters and 

 for other purposes. I propose to limit my testimony to the env'iron- 

 mental issues of the bill. Admiral Crawford will subsequently provide 

 testimony concerning military operational issues and General Groves 

 will testify on civil works functions of the Corps of Engineers. 



The Department of Defense is deeply concerned about the adverse 

 ecological and environmental effects associated with the unregulated 

 discharge of wastes and other materials into the navigable, coastal, 

 and ocean waters of the United States. We believe that legislation to 

 regulate such activities is desirable. 



The Department of Defense has already taken action to initiate and 

 implement comparable policy guidance which was first promulgated 

 in the Report of the Council on Environmental Quality on Ocean 

 Dumping — a National Policy and transmitted to Congress by Presi- 

 dent Nixon on October Y, 19Y0. 



