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Mr. Stupps. Would you care to comment on the accuracy of the 
two paragraphs I just read to you? 
Ms. Hurp. I also testified earlier that economics was not going to 
be a major factor. 
Mr. Stupps. Economics is not going to be a major factor? 
Ms. Hurp. It is not the major factor. 
Mr. Stupps. Is it a major factor? 
Ms. Hurp. It is a secondary factor. 
Mr. Stupps. It is a secondary factor. OK. Let me ask you, if I 
may, some specific questions with respect to Massachusetts Bay 
and the dumping there. I think, Mr. Janes, you were at our hear- 
ing last fall in Boston. 
What is the current status of the monitoring program, with re- 
spect to Massachusetts Bay, which we discussed at such length last 
September? 
Mr. JANES. We have implemented some monitoring. The monitor- 
ing plan for the complete survey of the Bay is not complete but it 
will be complete by July when we intend to do the sampling in the 
Bay. 
Mr. Stupps. You intend to do the sampling when? 
Mr. JANES. In July. 
Mr. Stupps. I have just been informed that my time has expired. 
Mr. Chairman, how strict are you being? I was just given an 
anonymous note here. 
Mr. D’Amours. I did not hear the gentleman’s question. If he is 
asking whether your 5 minutes has expired, you can be sure that 
although I did not send the note, it is accurate. 
Mr. Stupps. I am sure of that. Is there going to be a second 
round of questioning, because I had just begun. 
Mr. D’Amours. The gentleman is welcome to stay and I will give 
him an opportunity. 
Now, the gentleman from New Jersey who I should have recog- 
nized earlier, Mr. Forsythe. 
Mr. ForsyTHE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am sorry I created 
some confusion but I do thank the witnesses this morning. 
I think I would like to deal primarily in the area of the ocean 
monitoring program and what its effect is going to be under the 
budget proposals that are now before us. To what extent does 
NOAA work with EPA in monitoring dump sites and how is that 
responsibility shared? 
Mr. Davies. Last year, the EPA research arm reinstituted its 
ocean dumping program and one of the first actions that we have 
taken is work with water programs and with—particularly the Na- 
tional fisheries in the Northeast—to work very closely together on 
monitoring the dump sites in the Northeast. 
We have also been working quite extensively with the Office of 
Marine Pollution Assessment which has an ocean dumping pro- 
gram and we are trying very hard to define the specific roles that 
each research organization has in this monitoring activity. 
Mr. ForsyTHE. Then what will be the effect of the proposed 
budget on this program? 
Mr. Davies. I cannot speak for NOAA, but I do not think it will 
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