465 



-2- 



Waste Safety, the National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense 

 Council, Nuclear Information Resource Service, the Ocean Education 

 Project, Oceanic Society, Scenic Shoreline Preservation Conference, 

 Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the United Methodist 

 Law of the Sea Project, and the Wilderness Society*/ (hereafter the 

 "public interest" organizations) — to disquss their concerns 

 with respect to the disposal of radiological wastes in the marine 

 environment. These public interest groups have a combined 

 membership and sponsorship exceeding 5,700,000 persons throughout 

 the United States and abroad. Many of these groups have had a 

 long history of active interest in the development of sound ocean 

 and nuclear waste management policies — both nationally and 

 internationally — that provide for effective control of all 

 sources of pollution of the marine environment. 



The Center for Law and Social Policy has addressed issues 

 related to the ocean disposal of radioactive waste on niomerous 

 occasions during recent years. Since 1978, I have been a member 

 of the EPA/Department of State Ocean Dumping Coordinating Committee. 

 In July 1978, I testified before this Subcommittee concerning 

 this same topic. I served as an Advisor on the U.S. delegation 

 to the Third Consultative Meeting of the London Dumping Conven- 

 tion ("LDC"), and represented Friends of the Earth, International 

 and the Oceanic Society at the LDC ' s Fourth Consultative Meeting. 

 In February 1980, the Center and the Oceanic Society co-sponsored 

 a one-day workship in Washington, D.C., entitled "Nuclear Waste 

 Management: the Ocean Alternative." 



V' Attached as Appendix A is a brief description of these 

 organizations . 



