We need funds for research. We need funds for good coastal management, and 
we need to have the CZM act reauthorized. There is a true need for the federal-state 
partnership to continue in this area. Meetings like this v today are encouraging and I hope 
they continue. 
I will be glad to answer a question or two if you have some. Yes, Sir? 
Question and Answer Discussion 
Question: Isn't Boston Harbor the place where you have an LNG terminal? 
R. Delaney; Yes, it is and, in fact, traffic in Logan Airport is redirected at 
that time. All Harbor traffic is cleared out the Harbor. There are six tugboats that 
surround the LNG tanker when it comes in. It does go under the Mystic River Bridge and 
has to go under at the right tide. If it goes under at high tide, we are all in trouble. 
Question: I haven't heard anything about rehabilitation of the major problems 
of your bays, estuaries or Harbors in Massachusetts. What thoughts have you given to 
rehabilitating these locations? 
R. Delaney: Rehabilitation in terms of removing the contaminated sediments 
in the harbors? 
Question: Well, whatever. 
R. Delaney: We are really not quite at that point yet. I guess we are looking 
at, at least in Boston Harbor, stopping or reducing the amount of pollution being 
contributed to the Harbor by upgrading treatment plants, by finding a solution to our 
sludge problems, and by repairing our combined sewer overflows. At that point we may be 
able to look at some rehabilitation, and that is, I'm sure, many years down the road. 
For example, in another area in Massachusetts, New Bedford Harbor, we have 
a similar and very disturbing PCB contamination problem in the sediments in the bottom 
of that harbor. It has become a Superfund site. We are now involved in developing with 
the EPA the strategy for rehabilitating that situation. It's very, very difficult. It's very 
expensive, and the scale of that is unbelievable. In fact, I think the solution might be that 
the best we can do is just cap the PCB hotspots in the Harbor and not go the alternative 
route, which is to try to remove essentially several square miles of acreage in the bottom 
of that harbor, and in the process churning up and resuspending many of those 
contaminated sediments. 
So, no, we are really not at the stage where we have active—unless some of 
my staff can help me out—rehabilitation projects going on. 
Question: In earlier years we received a certain amount of tax funds for 
research. Do you see anything like this coming out in Massachusetts where funds can 
come from local and state government for this use? 
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