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In trying to prove there is no danger from nuclear dumping pro- 
grams GAO draws on a study done by the Ad Hoc Scientific Committee 
on Ocean Dumping of Radioactive Wastes organized by the Oceanic 
Society. However, following the release of the GAO Report the 
Oceanic Society formally advised the GAO that their position had 
been misrepresented. First, the GAO Report says that “members of 
the Ad Hoc Committee have been vigorously opposed to dumping radio- 
active wastes in the ocean and set out to prove that a problem 
existed but did not Sete MNES Michael Herz, Executive Vice 
President of the Society responded by stating, "“[i]n fact, our com- 
mittee was formed specifically to evaluate draft reports concerning 
research on nuclear waste dumping which had recently been released 
by the Environmental Protection Agency and, in the tradition of 
the scientific method, started from a position of neutrality on 
the issue of the effect of radioactive waste on the saree 
An even more serious misrepresentation occurs when the GAO 
Report states that "the Committee concluded that there is no 
evidence of a serious present or future threat to acuatic or 
human health either at Farallon Island or at the Atlantic 
61/ 
Sit eSmreaeet s,s Again, Dr. Herz responds: 
39/ GAO Report, supra note 3, at 16-17. 
60/ Letter from Michael Herz to Charles Bowster, Comptroller 
General of the United States (Dec. 11, 1981) [hereinafter cited 
as Herz Letter). 
61/ GAO Report, supra note 2, at 17. 
