1 DR. AURAND: Do you want me to put down here "as defined by NOAA"? 



2 DR. COOPER: Those are definitions we made working about 8 or 10 



3 years ago. 



4 DR. BUTMAN: I'm not sure that, based on the stuff that Page 



5 showed on the western rims, that that would not preclude cuttings from 



6 getting into the canyonhead. 



7 DR. GRASSLE: Part of the reason for that is that there is no 



8 major negative impact on the drilling operations. 



9 DR. HECKER: I wanted to raise the issue of should we 



10 differentiate between the east and west rims? 



11 DR. TEAL: No eventual impact, maybe, but if the stuff that's 



12 coming in is coming in the same way that the natural stuff comes in, why 



13 would that impact be any different than the natural impact? 



14 DR. BUTMAN: By doing that, I guess you are saying you don't want 



15 the pile in the canyon axis; you don't care about stuff later. 



16 DR. HECKER: No, I guess what I was thinking was do you relax that 



17 requirement on the west wall? 



18 DR. TEAL: It's much easier to make the regulation uniform. 



19 DR. KRAEUTER: Under "B", you might put the reasoning behind why 



20 we don't want the pile. 



21 DR. AURAND: This would exclude massive accumulation of muds and 



22 cuttings. Muds and cuttings, or cuttings? 



23 DR. KRAEUTER: Cuttings and muds, too. 



24 DR. HECKER: Heavier material, I would think. 



25 DR. TEAL: Heavy material; that's fine. 



26 DR. HECKER: This would exclude the accumulation of heavy 



27 material. 



28 DR. AURAND: Does anyone want to say anything about what "heavy" 



29 means? Somebody will ask sooner or later. 



30 (Simultaneous discussion.) 



31 A PARTICIPANT: Just put "mud and cuttings" in parentheses. 



32 DR. AURAND: Can we put in parentheses there "cuttings and muds" 



33 or just "cuttings"? Jim? 



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