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(8) Are New York's sludge barges capable of safely making the 

 trip to the 106-iiiile site for disposal purposes? If not, 

 what additional modifications are necessary to make that 

 trip? 



What are the City's estimated costs for disposal at the 

 12 and 106-mile sites? Has the City contacted independent 

 barge operators to determine if these costs could be 

 lowered by "contracting out"? 



The City's motorized vessels are, for tfie most part, capable of 

 making the trip to the 106 mile site. However, some 

 modifications would have to be made to the vessels to 

 accommodate the larger crews. Crew quarters, would have to be 

 increased and additional life saving equipment installed. 



The City's estimated costs for transporting sludge to the 12 

 mile and 106 mile sites were included in our comment documents 

 for Site Designation. However, in response to questions raised 

 by Congressman D'Amours, we have reevaluated our estimate for 

 the 106 mile site, and provided the actual dumping costs at the 

 12 mile site for 1982. They are as follows: 



Our revised estimate for the 106 mile site is $23.22 million. 

 The actual cost in 1982 to transport sludge to the 12 mile site 

 was $6.22 million. This is much higher than originally 

 estimated because of unusually high shipyard repair contracts 

 required during this particular year. Repairs and maintenance 

 costs were $2,396,000 for this period. This figure is about 

 twice the average annual expenditure for this item. 



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