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EVALUATION OF INFLUENCE OF DUMPING IN THE NEW YORK BIGHT 
with 
A Brief Review of General Ocean Pollution Problems. 
Preface 
In a memorandum of February 17, 1970, to appropriate Federal 
officials, Dr. Leslie L. Glasgow, Assistant Secretary for Fish 
and Wildlife, Parks, and Marine Resources of the Department of 
the Interior, appointed an Ad Hoc Committee to review the practice 
of ocean disposal in the New York Bight and to make appropriate 
“recommendations. The purpose of this Committee was not to pre- 
‘judge ongoing and indepth studies now being conducted by various 
agencies. Rather, it was to bring together pertinent information 
and opinions to permit a preliminary assessment of the problem 
and to consider the need for any Federal action that might set 
the future pattern throughout our coastal areas. 
After meeting with the Assistant Secretary, the Committee 
developed a series of specific objectives for review of the 
problem in the New York Bight, plus several other objectives 
that related to the general problem of ocean disposal nation- 
wide. These were, as follows: 
I. Pollution in the New York Bight 
1. Summarize major sources of pollution 
2. Summarize current Federal and non-Federal activities 
related to pollution control and abatement 
3. Evaluate potential threats from pollution to the 
proposed Gateway National Recreation Area. 
4. Summarize other problems associated with pollution 
in the New York Bight 
5. List alternatives to dumping at present sites and 
associated problems 
6. Propose interim recommendations 
