1 DR. TEAL: I would be willing to go on with "are very unlikely to 



2 occur." 



3 DR. GRASSLE: Okay. 



4 DR. KRAEUTER: I have a lot of trouble with "can be expected." 



5 (Simultaneous discussion.) 



6 DR. TEAL: The problem is too, though, that if we just say "might 



7 occur" and not reference--we have data of a shallow water study that may 



8 come back to haunt us in that somebody in a public hearing could hold 



9 that data and say, "We have data that it does, in fact, accumulate." 



10 So what I would like--we may be afraid of saying that there is 



11 shallow water evidence of it, but because we are talking about depths of 



12 an order of magnitude greater than shallow water studies-- 



13 DR. KRAEUTER: I am sure that it was in the 9 foot when it was 



14 only out to a 100 meters after 5 years at a 1,000 barrels a day. 



15 DR. BOTHNER: That is pretty minor. That is really stretching it 



16 to say we are going to see it. 



17 MR. VILD: So I would go along with what you say, extremely minor 



18 or--if we are going to have anything about "might occur"--that we 



19 qualify it, saying that there have been some sort of effects observed in 



20 very, very shallow water but, since we are talking about a depth of 200 



21 meters or more, the effects would be attenuated. 



22 DR. MACIOLEK: I agree. 



23 MR. BOURNE: In yesterday's meeting it was stated that over a long 



24 period there would be a gradual accumulation of hydrocarbons over the 



25 years. 



26 DR. KRAEUTER: That was shallow water, though. 



27 MR. BOURNE: I do not think it was. 



28 DR. MACIOLEK: Yes. I am familiar with that particular study and 



29 I know that they were talking about shallow water. 



30 I guess I agree with the two of you-- 



31 DR. GRASSLE: Start the paragraph, "Hydrocarbon accumulations in 



32 surficial sediments from this source are likely to be undetectable." 



33 Then leave out the next bit. 



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