c. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution . The WHOI contract pro- 

 vided for a literature search and review of oceanographic knowledge and 

 waste disposal practices for an area extending from Cape Cod to Cape 

 Hatteras. The results are outlined in the following report: 



HORNE, R. A., et_ al_, 1971, "The Marine Disposal of Sewage 

 Sludge and Dredge Spoil in the Waters of the N. Y. Bight," 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, Mass., Tech. 

 Memo 1-71, 37 pp., NTIS Acquisition number AD 722791. 



d. Sperry Rand Corporation Study . The Sperry Rand Corporation con- 

 tract provided for conduct of a feasibility study for a system that could 

 provide remote surveillance of ocean dumping activities in the Bight. 



The results of this investigation are in a report: 



Sperry Systems Management Division, Sperry Rand Corporation, 

 "Ocean Waste Dumping Operations Monitoring," 1971, NTIS 

 Acquisition number AD 735378. 



e. Smithsonian Institution Study . The first contract signed with 

 SI provided for initial planning of the CERC-funded studies; a second 

 contract provided for the establishment of a Scientific Advisory Com- 

 mittee (SAC), whose role was to advise, review and evaluate all the 

 studies in the Bight and recommend a future course of action. 



(1) Smithsonian Advisory Committee (SAC) . SAC, a committee of 

 experts in several scientific disciplines, was selected by personnel of 

 the Oceanography and Limnology Program of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Members of the committee at the conclusion of the studies and who pre- 

 pared the final SAC report, were as follows: 



*Dr. Martin A. Buzas, Smithsonian Institution 



*Dr. James H. Carpenter, Johns Hopkins and National 



Science Foundation 

 *Dr. Bostwick H. Ketchum, Woods Hole Oceanographic 



Institution 

 *Dr. J. Laurence McHugh, State University of New 



York at Stony Brook 

 *Dr. Virgil J. Norton, University of Rhode Island 

 *Dr. Donald J. O'Connor, Manhattan College 

 Dr. Joseph L. Simon, University of South Florida 

 Dr. David K. Young, Smithsonian Institution 

 (Chairman of Committee) 



Dr. Robert P. Higgins, Director of the Oceanography and Limnology Program 

 of the Smithsonian Institution retained overall administration of SAC. 



Members of the committee whose names are designated by an asterisk * 

 are original members of the committee who participated in the site visits 

 of the research laboratories responsible for the investigations, and who 

 reviewed the field work of these laboratories on 17 and 18 December 1969. 



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