Coastal Pollution in the New York Bight and Mid-Atlantic: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oceanography of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session on H.R. 562 ... and H.R. 2791 ... September 8, 1987, Ocean City, NJ. |
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applicable Atlantic authority barges beaches Bight apex Bill bottlenose dolphins Captain NORTH CARPER Chairman Chief of Engineers Clean Water Act coastal committee Congress contaminants Corps of Engineers County DAGGETT debris Department of Environmental discharge District Engineer Division Engineer DOYLE dredged material dumping activities enforcement ENG Form ENGCW-OS Environmental Protection Agency equipment estimated estuary Federal fish Fisheries floating plant FRESH KILLS LANDFILL garbage hopper dredges hospital wastes Hudson-Raritan Hudson-Raritan estuary impact incineration investigation issue Jersey coast Jersey shore Jim Saxton June land-based Landfill legislation Long Island Lowry marine sanitation devices MARPOL miles monitoring municipal National Oceanic NOAA Ocean City ocean dumping Ocean Dumping Act Oceanography offshore operation permit plastic problem pycnocline region regulations response runoff samples SAXTON Section solid waste summer surveillance Thank trash treatment plants U. S. Coast Guard vessels washed wastewater water quality wind York Bight
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Page 115 - The effect of such dumping on human health and welfare, including economic, esthetic, and recreational values. (C) The effect of such dumping on fisheries resources, plankton, fish, shellfish, wildlife, shore lines and beaches. (D) The effect of such dumping on marine ecosystems, particularly with respect to- — (i) the transfer, concentration, and dispersion of such material and its byproducts through biological, physical, and chemical processes, (ii) potential changes in marine ecosystem diversity,...
Page 308 - States to regulate the dumping of all types of materials into ocean waters and to prevent or strictly limit the dumping into ocean waters of any material which would adversely affect the human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities.
Page 202 - States, the combined merchant fleets of which constitute not less than fifty per cent of the gross tonnage of the world's merchant shipping, have become parties to it in accordance with Article 13 2.
Page 309 - ... concentrations of such materials. (G) Appropriate locations and methods of disposal or recycling, including land-based alternatives and the probable impact of requiring use of such alternate locations or methods upon considerations affecting the public interest. (H) The effect on alternate uses of oceans, such as scientific study, fishing, and other living resource exploitation, and nonliving resource exploitation.
Page 315 - ... agency action") is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered species or threatened species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of habitat of such species which is determined by the Secretary, after consultation as appropriate with affected States, to be critical, unless such agency has been granted an exemption for such action by the Committee pursuant to subsection (h) of this section. In fulfilling the requirements of this paragraph each agency shall...
Page 362 - Excepting appropriations for the Military and Naval Establishments, no appropriation shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, or operation of any aircraft unless specific authority for the purchase, maintenance, or operation thereof has been or is provided in such appropriation.
Page 15 - For the sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all...
Page 308 - ... industrial use, underwater corrosion of structures, interference with ship operations from floating materials, interference with fishing or navigation through deposit of waste or solid objects on the sea floor and protection of areas of special importance for scientific or conservation purposes). 4. The practical availability of alternative land-based methods of treatment, disposal or elimination, or of treatment to render the matter less harmful for dumping at sea.
Page 201 - Annex V - Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships...
Page 15 - In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea — to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.