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taking a leading role in negotiating a marine protection 

 convention and dumping protocol for the South Pacific region. 



With respect to the moratorium, the Department has strongly 

 supported the LDC study so that consideration of the 

 radioactive waste disposal issue can be properly addressed by 

 the Consultative Meeting of the Contracting Parties at the 

 appropriate time. 



On balance, we believe that the Department has acted in 

 international fora consistently with the sense of Congress 

 expressed in section 109 and has promoted the protection of the 

 marine environment from dumping. 



