Mr. Eichbaum: About three hundred and thirty treatment 
plants in the State, public and private. The last report which 
we did, which was about 1-1/2 years ago or 2 years ago actually, 
indicated that about half of those plants had some form of 
violation other than minor or paperwork. 
Following that revelation we've done a couple of things. 
One is about doubled our inspection resources on those plants. 
Secondly, for the first time begun to file civil penalties 
against units of government for violations of the plant. And 
thirdly, is to develop a plant-by-plant strategy that states 
what they will be doing, when they will be doing it, when they 
will do it by. That strategy basically provides for every plant 
in the State to be in compliance with what we believe are the 
required water quality derived effluent limitation by 1988. 
Probably the two exceptions to that are Oakland in Garret 
County, which does not discharge to the Chesapeake system, but 
which has never had a sewage treatment plant, they are starting 
construction now. They have a posted penalty, and they will be 
in compliance a lttle bit later than that. 
And the final completed construction of the Back River 
Sewage Treatment Plant at Baltimore, which is about 108 million 
gallons per day plant, which will be totally reconstructured, is 
also the first sewage treatment plant in the country, which was 
built to protect oysters back in about 1915, I guess, will be 
totally reconstructed at a cost in excess of 400 million dol¬ 
lars. That's going to carry us into the early 1990s. Did I 
answer your questions? 
Dr. D'Elia: A question way in the back? 
Question: What is the relationship between the National 
Marine Fisheries Service and the Atlantic Marine Fisheries 
Commission? And is the Atlantic Commission the same thing as 
the regional fisheries management council? Do you think that 
the National Fisheries Service can input advice. 
Dr. Thomas: All three outfits that you talked about are 
different. The National Marine Fisheries Service has input into 
the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Council as well as the 
Fishery Management Council. And essentially, there are scienti¬ 
fic and technical groups, and the National Marine Services 
Fisheries' personnel are on each of these groups. Additionally, 
NOAA has formed the Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee 
with members from the States of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsyl¬ 
vania, and District of Columbia. So I think there certainly is 
a great deal of networking. And I hope that the informational 
flow will be coming to heel. 
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