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QUESTION 2 WAS CONCERNED WITH PRoGRESS IN DESIGNATING DUMPSITES AS 
SPECIFIED IN FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES, THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION 
v- EPA Court SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT, AND [ESTIMONY PERTAINING TO THE 
AGENCY’S REQUEST FOR AN INCREASE IN FY 82 AUTHORIZATION LEVELS: 
EPA HAS BEEN DEVOTING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RESOURCES TO THE 
DESIGNATION PROCESS FOR THE SITES REFERRED TO- AS YOU KNOW, IN JULY 
1977, THE AGENCY OBTAINED A CONTRACTOR TO INVENTORY AND GATHER 
INFORMATION ON EXISTING INTERIM OCEAN DISPOSAL SITES- THE EFFORT 
INCLUDED FIELD SURVEYS WHERE HISTORICAL DATA WERE NOT SUFFICIENT TO 
EVALUATE SITES- THE Corps OF ENGINEERS JOINED THIS EFFORT IN 1979 AND 
SINCE THAT TIME THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN JOINTLY FUNDED BY THE EPA AND THE 
Corps- THIS COMPILATION OF INFORMATION AND THE CONDUCT OF NECESSARY 
SURVEYS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED FOR 32 OCEAN DUMPING AREAS, TO BE EVALUATED 
IN 29 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS (EIS’s), AT A COST oF ABOUT 17 
MILLION DOLLARS: THE CONTRACT WILL BE TERMINATED IN JULY 1982. OF 
THESE 29 EIS’s, 22 ARE BEING PREPARED UNDER THE COURT SETTLEMENT WITH 
THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION- SIX ADDITIONAL DREDGED MATERIAL 
DISPOSAL SITE DESIGNATION EIS‘sS WILL BE ISSUED UNDER AN AGREEMENT 
BETWEEN THE EPA AND THE CorpPsS- ONE ADDITIONAL NON-DREDGED MATERIAL 
DISPOSAL SITE DESIGNATION EIS HAS. BEEN ISSUED- TWO OF THE DRAFT 
DREDGED MATERIAL EIS’S ARE CURRENTLY UNDERGOING PUBLIC REVIEW: 
To DATE, 5 FINAL DREDGED MATERIAL SITES, ALL IN HAWAII, AND 2 
FINAL NON-DREDGED MATERIAL SITES, THE NEw YORK ACID WASTES SITE AND THE 
SAN NICOLAS BASIN DRILLING MUDS SITE IN THE PACIFIC, HAVE BEEN 
DESIGNATED- A FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE PROPOSING FINAL DESIGNATION OF 
THE 106 MILE SITE AND SOLICITING COMMENTS ON REDESIGNATION OF THE 12 
AND 60 MILE SITES IN THE NEw YorRK BIGHT IS CURRENTLY IN FINAL STAGES OF 
AGENCY REVIEW. 
