1 DR. HECKER: That's a qualifier, but he had "no," and I objected 



2 to that. 



3 DR. TEAL: I agree with that. 



4 DR. AURAND: Mea culpa. 



5 DR. HECKER: Yes. I will even go with "very unlikely," just as 



6 long as it is not an absolute. 



7 DR. TEAL: We absolutely guarantee that there will never be-- 



8 DR. HECKER 



9 DR. AURAND 

 10 DR. BUTMAN 



Yes. 



Is there anything else with muds and cuttings? 



Actually, Barbara brought up one other issue about 



11 not directly smothering, but changing settling patterns. Is that-- 



12 DR. TEAL: That's all very close to the rig, where you would get 



13 enough of the stuff accumulating. Even if it gets into the canyon, we 



14 were assuming that it would be mixed, the sediment would be stirred up 



15 and so forth and there would only be a small fraction of the sediment 



16 that's there. 



17 DR. AURAND: I guess maybe a more general question would be: Do 



18 you want to say something about that small fraction which will be 



19 transported more than 500 meters? Some will, clearly. Other than the 



20 fact that you've addressed-- 



21 DR. TEAL: We assumed it all would. 



22 DR. AURAND: I know, and then you then talked about the potential 



23 impact of the metals and the barium. You did not talk about the 



24 potential physical impacts that would result from that small transport. 



25 DR. HECKER: I guess the question there is if you do have 



26 concentration in the canyon, here, I might be worried about Lydonia 



27 Canyon, the depositional area of accumulations, would the chemistry of 



28 the sediment as well as the texture prevent settlement? 



29 How sensitive are the larvae to sediment, to chemical sediment? I 



30 don't know. 



31 DR. TEAL: I don't know, either. We were talking about 200 parts 



32 per mill ion. 



33 DR. BUTMAN: 20 parts. 



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