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1. Descriptions of SSE contained in this report are taken 

 primarily from the following sources : 



(1) ERDA, "Alternatives for Managing Wastes From Reactors 



and Post-Fission Operations in the LWR Fuel Cycle," 

 Vol. 4, May 1978; 



(2) Sandia Laboratories , "Report to the Radioactive Waste 



Management Committee on the First International 

 Workshop on Seabed Disposal of High-Level Wastes, 

 Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Feb. 16-20, 1976; 



(3) "High-Level Nuclear Wastes in the Seabed?", 20 Oceeinus 



1-67 (1977) (papers from the Woods Hole Workshop, 

 supra) . 



(4) 94th Cong., 2d Sess., House of Representatives, 



Committee on Energy and the Environment, Oversight 

 Hearings, "Radiological Contamination of the Oceans," 

 July 26-27, 1976 (1977) (hereinafter "Hearings"); 



(5) 95th Cong., 2d Sess., House of Representatives, 



Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Svib- 

 committee on Oceanography, Hearings, May 15 and 

 July 11, 1978 (vmpublished) . 



2. For a more complete description of the nuclear waste problem, 

 see Willrich & Lester, Radioactive Waste: Management and 

 Regulation (1977) ; for more formal analysis of the insti- 

 tutional concerns raised by waste management as well as 



the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, see Rochlin, Plutonium , 

 Power, and Politics: International Arrangements for the 

 Disposition of Spent Nuclear Fuel (1979) . 



3. The Antarctic Treaty, 12 U.S.T. 794, TIAS No. 4780, in force 

 (1961) , Art.V(l) . 



4. 26 U.S.T. 2403, TIAS No. 8165, in force (1975). 



5. Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, 

 as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1301 et seq . 



6. IAEA Doc. GOV/1622 (Sept. 3, 1973). 



7. See sec. (3) , infra . 



8. Papers by Deese include: 



(1) "Law of the Sea and High Level Radioactive Waste 



Disposal: a Potential Geologic Option under the 

 Deep Seabed?", in Hearings , supra n. 1(4), at 823; 



