APPENDIX I (Continued) 



These areas should be large enough in extent so as not to require 

 the most precise navigation to attain them. Location buoys may be 

 helpful. 



They should be so located as not to interfere with sport fishing or 

 commercial fishing (trawling and shellfishing). Perhaps they can be 

 located around underwater obstructions. If possible, they should not 

 be so far out at sea as to require ocean-going vessels. 



The study group considering establishing these disposal areas will 

 almost certainly have to consider how such areas can be operated safely 

 and without adverse effects on the resources of the sea. Special require- 

 ments may need to be delineated as to the levels of radioactivity which 

 may be disposed; the kinds of material, i. e. special treatments of 

 liquids and solids; and the kinds of containers or packaging methods 

 best suited to such disposal. 



In this latter regard, it should be understood that those closer-in 

 disposal areas are intended for use principally by commercial waste 

 disposers or by private organizations. It is not anticipated that Atomic 

 Energy Commission sea disposal operation will change, at least not in 

 the foreseeable future. Insofar as other Government agencies inay use 

 commercial services in the future their waste dumpings may switch 

 from the present designated areas to the closer-in areas if they are 

 established. 



Will the Committee on Oceanography consider sponsoring a 

 detailed study of this problem? If so it is suggested that a special 

 study group comprised of scientists and oceanographers familiar with 

 the Atlantic Coast and of the Government agency people most concerned 

 with radioactive waste disposal be formed. The following persons are 

 suggested as a nucleus for this group: 



Dayton Carritt Chesapeake Bay Institute 



Bostwick Ketchum Woods Hole Institution 

 Dean Bumpus " " " 



Howard Eckles Fish & Wildlife Service 

 Walter Chipman " " " 



Arnold Joseph Atomic Energy Commission 



Arnold Joseph/ for the 

 Coordinating Committee on Oceanography 



