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Department of the Navy, 

 Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 



Washington, B.C., Deceniber H, 1972. 



memorandum for the chief, environmental coordination branch, 

 U.S. coast guard headquarters 



Subject : Coast Guard Draft Environmental Impact Statement on S. 3766/H, 15627 

 Reference: (a) Your letter of 28 September 1972 



1. As requested in reference (a), subject environmental impact statement has 

 been reviewed. The statement was forwarded to the appropriate naval officers for 

 comment. 



2. No objections were raised to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 

 in the form presented in enclosure (1) to reference (a). 



3. As a matter of general interest and as an illustration of the economic 

 impact the enactment of this legislation will incur, the following estimated fig- 

 ures are presented that reflect costs of compliance by the Navy with the amend- 

 ments to the Oil Pollution Act of 1961 : 



Million 



Changes to oil piping systems $110. 



Oil clean up equipment for facilities and harbors __ 15. 



Shipboard oil/water separator systems 50. 



175.0 

 J. A. D'Emidio, 

 Captain, U8N, Director, Environmental Protection Division. 



Department of the Navy, 

 Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy, 



Alexandria, Va., Decemher It, 1972. 

 From : Oceanographer of the Navy 

 To : Commandant of the Coast Guard 



Subject : Draft Environmental Impact Statement on S. 3766/H.R. 15627 

 Reference: (a) Telcon 8 Dec 72 between CDR D. B. Charter (C.G.) and LCDR 

 L. M. Riley (OCEANAV) 



1. The draft environmental impact statement (EIS) has been reviewed and 

 the following comments are forwarded as per reference (a). Comments are 

 restricted to the thoroughness of the EIS and will not address the desirability of 

 the bill. 



2. The EIS, although somewhat lengthy, is complete, thorough and well writ- 

 ten with sufficient background data presented to support the individual parts of 

 the statement. However, consideration should be given to rewriting page 49. 

 Various bacteria, yeast etc., do respond favorably to the presence of selected 

 fractions of petroleum. Further, researchers are not unanimous in their opinions 

 as to the effects of petroleum on the total marine ecosystem. 



B. E. Stultz, 



By direction. 



Department of Transportation, 



Office of the Secretary, 



Memorandum 



Subject: Draft Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Legislation to 

 Implement 1969 and 1971 Amendments to the International Convention for 

 Prevention of the Pollution of the Sea by Oil 

 From : Director, Office of Environmental Quality 

 To : Chief. Environmental Protection Division, GWEP/73, USCG 



This office concurs in the .scope and content of the draft statement of Septem- 

 ber, 1972. However, we offer one suggestion in the interest of clarification of the 

 background data presented in Tables 1 and 2. In Table 1, 29.41 percent of all oil 



