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15. Adopt more advanced processing, disposal, and control 
techniques as alternatives to present primitive ocean disposal 
practices. These would include incineration or other rapid oxida- 
tion; farming, with or without composting; recycling techniques; 
and various types of "offsite'’ disposal operations, such as 
special landfills and mine disposal. 
Data Management 
16. Operations research and systems analysis techniques need 
to be applied to the entire area of waste management. Greater use 
of existing techniques of data management, along with a more sophis- 
ticated systems analysis of waste management problems would help to 
simplify some ocean disposal problems and reveal possible alterna- 
tives not yet fully explored. 
17. Responsibility for assembling and maintaining, on a current 
basis, all water pollution data should be assigned to one agency. 
This would include information on kind and quantity of material now 
being discharged. Greater use should be made of existing data 
Management systems for storage and retrieval of environmental data 
in territorial and international waters. 
18. Establish a marine monitoring program to obtain baseline and 
"real time" data on 
a. meteorological conditions 
b. physical and chemical oceanographic conditions 
ec. biomass data on indicator organisms 
d. source, type, and quantity of effluents 
Before any monitoring program is developed, however, we need to know 
precisely what we are monitoring and what such data will contribute 
to any given problem area. 
Supporting Activities 
19. Develop and maintain an inventory of agencies, institutions, 
and laboratories with responsibilities and capabilities in solving 
ocean pollution problems. Nowhere is there such an inventory avail- 
able to provide managers with a perspective of who is involved and 
who might provide assistance. 
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