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Does anyone else on the subcommittees have any questions? 
Mr. Scheuer? 
Mr. ScHEUER. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate your kindness. I would 
like to ask unanimous consent to submit questions for the record. 
Mr. D’Amours. Why don’t I once and for all ask unanimous con- 
sent for all panels and all witnesses, that the record be kept vpen, 
and that any members of the subcommittees be allowed to ask 
questions and to receive answers from the witnesses. 
There being no objection, that is so ordered. 
Thank you very much for your very helpful testimony and per- 
spective, Mr. Borberg, and for your patience. 
Mr. BorserGc. Thank you very much for asking me. 
Mr. D’Amours. The next witness is Edward Osann, director of 
the water resources program, Resources Conservation Department, 
National Wildlife Federation. 
STATEMENT OF EDWARD OSANN, DIRECTOR, WATER RESOURCES 
PROGRAM, RESOURCES CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT, NA- 
TIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION 
Mr. Osann. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
My statement is several pages in length and I won’t attempt to 
read it from start to finish. I will attempt to simply hit the high 
spots for the benefit of the committee this afternoon. 
Mr. D’Amours. Your testimony wili appear in its entirety in the 
record as submitted, Mr. Osann. I appreciate your being willing to 
summarize it. Please proceed. 
Mr. Osann. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
As indicated, my name is Edward Osann. I am the director of the 
national wildlife federation’s water resources program. 
I believe that the committee, the Committee on Merchant 
Marine and Fisheries, in its action originally on H.R. 6118, took 
testimony from Dr. Kenneth Kamlet, who is the director of our pol- 
lution and toxic substances program. I would also point out he is 
the principal litigator for the Federation’s ongoing work on ocean 
dumping litigation, with which a number of the members of the 
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries are familiar. 
At this time, the National Wildlife Federation is in support of an 
amendment to H.R. 6118 which would provide for the collection of 
user fees for ocean dumping, but we are opposed at this time to the 
draft amendment to H.R. 6324 to establish an Ocean Waste Man- 
agement Commission and an Ocean Waste Management Advisory 
Committee. 
The ocean has traditionally been a cost-free and convenient place 
to dump many materials which are hard to dispose of on land. Con- 
trol over the ocean dumping of harmful materials was established 
by law 10 years ago. 
During 1980, about 110 million tons of material of all types were 
dumped into the ocean under regulations and permits issued by the 
Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency. The 
deadlines for stopping the dumping of harmful sewage sludge have 
been repeatedly postponed and pressure is mounting to loosen 
standards and allow increased volumes of dumping in future years, 
dumping of all sorts of materials. 
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