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Wsahington, D.C. The Oceanic Society, whose principal place of 

 business is at Magee Avenue, Stanford, Connecticut, and which 

 has an additional office in San Francisco, California as well 

 as nine regional chapters, has 60,000 members. Scenic 

 Shoreline Preservation Conference is a non-membership 

 organization whose principal office is 4623 More Mesa Drive, 

 Santa Barbara, California. The Sierra Club, whose principal 

 place of business is at 530 Bush Street, San Francisco, 

 California, has a membership of approximately 184,000 persons, 

 including persons residing in 62 foreign countries. The Union 

 of Concerned Scientists, with its headquarters and principal 

 place of business at 1208 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massa- 

 chusetts, is supported by 100,000 sponsoring members living 

 both within the U.S. and abroad. The United Methodist Law of 

 the Sea Project is a non-membership group with offices at 100 

 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. The Wilderness Society's 

 principal place of business is 1901 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. , 

 Washington, D.C, and the group has a membership of approximately 

 50,000 persons. 



STATEMENT OF CLIFTON E. CURTIS, CENTER FOR LAW AND 

 SOCIAL POLICY, WASHINGTON, D.C, ACCOMPANIED BY MS. 

 ROBIN CHARLOW, LAW STUDENT 



Mr. Curtis. I am Clifton E. Curtis of the Center for Law and 

 Social Policy, a public interest law firm located in Washington, 

 D.C. Here at the table with me is Robin Charlow; a law student in 

 our clinical program at the center who worked with me in prepara- 

 tion of this testimony. 



I appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today on behalf 

 of 22 environmental/public interest groups. There is one additional 

 group that signed on today, Capt. Jacques Cousteau's organization, 

 the Cousteau Society. They asked to be included and have endorsed 

 the comments that I have put together. 



As I indicated, I appreciate the opportunity to discuss the con- 

 cerns of these 22 organizations, which I won't list as they are 

 stated in the prepared testimony, their concerns with respect to the 

 disposal of radiological wastes in the marine environment. Those 

 groups have a combined membership and sponsorship exceeding 5.5 

 million 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 poli- 

 cies, both nationally and internationally. 



