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Mr. D’Amours. Is it true the municipalities collect all of the 
data? 
Mr. Erpsness. No, I don’t think that is true. The municipalities 
don’t collect all the data. 
Mr. D’Amours. If they did, are there any field costs left to the 
Federal Government? 
Mr. Erpsness. I am not sure I understand the question. 
Mr. D’Amours. Is the cost incurred only in the collecting of the 
data or are there other costs to be incurred? 
Mr. Swanson. Mr. Chairman, I think there are two types of 
monitoring here that are being confused. One is compliance moni- 
toring. It is my understanding that dumpers and municipalities 
largely bear the burden of paying that cost, and they collect data, 
or contract to collect data, which is then given to EPA. 
The other is environmental monitoring, and NOAA does do some 
environmental monitoring specifically related to ocean dumping. 
Those costs are funded through NOAA’s activities through direct 
appropriation; we obtain no costs from the municipalities for envi- 
ronmental monitoring. 
Mr. D’Amours. Do you perform any analytical work on the data 
collected by municipalities? _ 
Mr. Swanson. Very often we obtain from EPA, or sometimes di- 
rectly from municipalities, data for analysis, along with the data 
NOAA collects from other places. We try to use as broad a data 
base as we can. 
Mr. D’Amours. I have no further questions of this panel. 
I would like to ask that the record be will kept open for the sub- 
mission of further questions by subcommittee members and also for 
the return of answers by the panel to questions that have already 
been posed. 
I thank you both very much for your attendance here this after- 
noon. 
Mr. Erpsness. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
Mr. Swanson. Thank you. 
Mr. D’Amours. Our next witness is Mr. James Borberg, General 
Manager, Hampton Roads, Virginia Sanitation District. He is here 
representing the Conference on Coastal Agencies. 
Mr. Borberg, welcome. 
We have a series of two votes pending on the floor, so we will 
have to take a recess for 20 minutes, and we will be back here to 
resume at 2:50. I appreciate your patience. 
[A short recess was taken] 
Mr. D’Amours. Thank you for your patience, Mr. Borberg. You 
may proceed. 
STATEMENT OF JAMES R. BORBERG, GENERAL MANAGER, HAMP- 
TON ROADS, VIRGINIA SANITATION DISTRICT, REPRESENTING 
THE CONFERENCE ON COASTAL AGENCIES, ACCOMPANIED BY 
JAMES S. MATTSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW; AND DOUGLAS A. 
SEGAR, PRESIDENT, SEAMOCEAN, INCORPORATED 
Mr. BorsBerGc. As you mentioned, I am the General Manager of 
the Hampton Roads Sanitation District, which is a sewage treat- 
ment agency in southeast Virginia, serving about 25 percent of the 
