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tractor, a consulting engineering firm retained by New York City 
back in 1978. These sites continue to be available. It makes a lot 
more sense in my view to put the dirty sludges there and stabilize 
landfills in the process, than to continue to put them in the ocean 
at any of the ocean dumpsites that are being discussed. 
Mr. D’Amours. Do you agree with Captain Cousteau that we do 
have the technology today to restrict and contain land-dumped 
sludge? 
Mr. KAMLET. Yes, absolutely. I could not make the statement as 
unequivocally if we were talking about hazardous waste of a vari- 
ety of kinds. However, the experience with land application of 
sewage sludge is sufficiently extensive in the United States and 
elsewhere in the world that I can say categorically that we do have 
the technology ina controlled land application situation to insure 
that sludge can be safely applied to land with minimal environ- 
mental consequences. That is a view, I might add, that has been 
shared by four scientists from Cornell University in rebutting a 
statement by two of their colleagues which applied solely to agri- 
cultural land application. There are many nonagricultural applica- 
tions of sewage sludge that not only are environmentally sound, 
but are beneficial in terms of impact on the environment. 
Mr. D’Amours. This Cornell study to which you are referring, I 
take it, is the one that was referred to in the exchange between 
Mr. Forsythe and Mayor Koch’s assistant? Is that the study to 
which you are referring? 
Mr. KAMLET. There was an earlier press release by two Cornell 
School of Agriculture researchers. I think those representatives 
may have been at hearings here last spring. It was a rebuttal to 
that press release communicated by four other scientists at Cornell 
which appeared as a letter to the editor in the newsletter of the 
Water Pollution Control Federation and in Sludge Newsletter. I 
have a copy here in front of me. I would be happy to submit it for 
the record if you wish. 
Mr. D’Amours. Without objection, it will be entered into the 
record at this point. 
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