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Harbor area under Section 201 of the Clean Water Act, including 

 over S4A7 million to New York City. In addition, over $13 

 million have been provided for water-quality management 

 planning under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act, including 

 over S8 million to the City. While not funded by EPA, a SA 

 million, 2-year program to develop alternate dredged material 

 disposal techniques by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is 

 actively supported by the Agency.) It does not follow, 

 however that ocean dumping of sewage sludge is innocuous or 

 harmless. On the contrary, as detailed above, there are a 

 number of identifiable adverse impacts attributable to the 

 City's sludge disposal. Accordingly, the Agency requires 

 that sludge dumping be terminated by the end of 1981, unless 

 the sludge can meet the requirements for a "Special Permit." 

 See AO C.F.R. 220.3(b). This requirement was adopted and 

 strengthened by Congress in the 1977 Amendments of the 

 Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972, 

 which incorporated the 1981 deadline into the statute itself. 

 It is an environmental goal we believe to be wholly worthy 

 of respect. 



I declare under penalty of perjur>' that the foregoing 

 is true and correct. 



IV 



PETER W. ANDERSON 



Ejcecuted at New York, New York 

 on th€_f," day of October, 1980. 



