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three major Atlantic dumpsites went to Massachusetts Bay, and 

 the rest was evenly divided between the two deep Atlantic sites. 



Mr. Studds. May I ask you one question there? 



You said the estimated numbers. 



I assume you mean that very literally. 



I recall a story in the Boston press with respect to the Massachu- 

 setts Bay dumping which quotes the person who captained the 

 barge or did the dumping as saying he made up those figures when 

 some Government agency insisted on them. 



He had no idea in the world what he had dumped. The figures he 

 gave were estimates he just made up in response to a demand by 

 the AEC at that time for some numbers. And the rest of his records 

 were burned in a fire. 



These are really rough estimates, I guess. 



Mr. Dyer. These are estimated numbers that have been provided 

 to us from the archival records. 



Mr. Studds. Whose archival records? 



Mr. Dyer. Well, recently NRC has been providing information to 

 us. 



And, of course, we had to reach back into the old Atomic Energy 

 Commission records. 



Mr. Studds. The dumping you are talking about predates the 

 NRC, does it not? 



Mr. Dyer. Yes. 



Mr. Studds. And predates EPA? 



Mr. Dyer. Definitely. 



Again, the estimated activity in the drums at the time of packag- 

 ing is just that, namely, estimated activity. These were wastes; and 

 so no rigorous effort to characterize this material was made. We 

 can see that the majority of this radioactive material went into the 

 2,800 meter dumpsite located approximately 120 miles off the 

 Maryland-Delaware border. 



The remaining radioactivity inventory was about equally divided 

 between the deeper of the Atlantic dump sites at 3,800 meters and 

 the Massachusetts Bay site. 



If I could have the next slide, please. 



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