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Mr. D' Amours. We thank you, Mr. Ehler, for your testimony and 

 we will hear from Mr. Schatzow now. 

 We request that you please be as brief as possible. 



STATEMENT OF STEVEN SCHATZOW 



Mr. Schatzow. I will be, Mr. Chairman. 



Let me introduce my colleague who is with me at the table. Dr. 

 Peter Anderson, who is the Chief of EPA's Region II Marine and 

 Wetlands Protection Branch. 



Many of you know he has been involved in the issues from a sci- 

 entific and policy point of view for 10 years or probably longer. 



I will summarize much of my testimony. There are portions of it 

 that I would like to read. I think it might be beneficial just to sum- 

 marize than to go through page by page as to who is on the page. 



That may be helpful if the committee would go with me. The be- 

 ginning of our testimony discussed briefly the bight apex. Page 2 

 lists the sources of pollution in the bight apex. There is a reference 

 to table 1 which is attached to the testimony; table 1 provides esti- 

 mates which have been provided by NOAA of contaminant inputs 

 to the apex. 



We begin on page 3 by discussing the fact that the largest contri- 

 butions of contaminants are those coming out of the Hudson Estu- 

 ary and the fact that the ocean dumping of municipal and industri- 

 al waste and dredged material is the second major class of pollut- 

 ant input. 



We then continue on page 3 to discuss the various pollution con- 

 trol requirements on the discharges to the Hudson Estuary and re- 

 quirements for cleanup governed by the Clean Water Act. 



We continue over to page 4 with that. We talk about controlling 

 the municipal sources of discharge into the estuary and the efforts 

 that have been undertaken and are underway for getting appropri- 

 ate treatment for those municipal wastewaters. 



On page 5, we discuss the industrial discharges, pretreatrnent 

 programs required under the Clean Water Act, and the deadlines 

 and what is going on to implement those programs for indirect in- 

 dustrial discharges, that is industrial contributors to publicly 

 owned treatment works. 



