570 



(2) "Seabed Emplacement and Political Reality," 20 Oceanus 



47 (1977) ; 



(3) Nuclear Power and Radioactive Waste (1978) . 



9. Heetrinqs , supra n. 1(4) . Legal positions of the State 

 Department, EPA, and ERDA appear at 798, 813, and 816 

 respectively V sec. (3) , infra . 



10. See , e.g.. Seabed Working Group, Report to the NEA Radio- 

 active Waste Management Committee (NEA/RWMC) , transmitted 

 with letter from D. Glenn Boyer, Chairman, Seabed Working 

 Group and Alex Paige, U.S. Representative to NEA/RWMC to 

 O. Ilari, Nuclear Energy Agency (March 15, 1979). 



11. See sec. (3) , infra. 



12. See "Report of the U.S. Delegation to the Intergovernmental 

 Conference on the Convention on the Dumping of Wastes at 

 Sea Held at London, October 30-Noveraber 13, 1972, Which 

 Produced the Convention on the Prevention of Marine 

 Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter," in 93rd 

 Cong., 1st Sess., House Committee on Merchant Marine and 

 Fisheries, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conserva- 

 tion and the Environment, "Ocean Dumping," at 15 (1973). 



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



14. Airgram No. A 9894, from U.S. Dept. of State to IAEA 

 (Nov. 30, 1973) . 



15. Deese, in Hearings , supra n. 1(4) at 963, n. 1. 



16. IAEA Doc. INFCIRC/205/Add.l/Rev. 1. 



17. Id. . It has been claimed that the regulation of disposal 

 at sea under the Convention is based on the need to 

 develop a regulatory regime that would ensure that wastes 

 dumped into the ocean would be adequately diluted and 

 dispersed by ocean waters to prevent environmental damage, 

 and therefore that sub-seabed emplacement is outside the 

 regime of the Convention. James L. Liverman of ERDA has 

 stated: 



The (sub-seabed emplacement) concept involves 

 locating a suitable, stable sub-seafloor geologic 

 formation and emplacing canisters of wastes within 

 the formation, utilizing one of a number of techniques 

 to penetrate and emplace , that are applications of 

 current technology. The radioactive material itself 

 does not, therefore come into contact with the ocean 

 and became dispersed. 



