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LCD-76-420 1 (1975-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaayq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: b, e, '0°U Acw~*hhg , be a of specific approval by hoOfIC- o flc[Aos. __ 8-146333 IL. ± ' ; The Honorable :flaiph fl. Metcalfe 11111 fIUP IIIlhII l1J1111111I11111II11II House of Representatives LM096889 Dear Mr. Metcalfe: As requested in your April 8, 1975, letter, we reviewed the Navy's practices of discharging fuel at sea. We expanded our coverage, as you later requested, to include all types of fuel which could have ceen reclaimed if brought to port. Several other congressmen requested similar information after the widespread publicity of the U.S.S. Independence's dumping 8,900 gallons of aviation gasoline in March 1975 Gff the South Carolina coast. We developed information on the Atlantic and Pacific fleets for the period July 1, 1973, through June 30, 1975. We exanined Navy instructions, Navy reco:ds, a Navy Audit Service Report issued in February 1975, and Exxon Research and Engineering Corporation studies; visited several vessels; and interviewed numerous Navy officials. We found that: --A common practice for Navy vessels has been to discharge fuel into the sea. We did not identify specific locations of discharges, because they oc- curred while the vessels were underway, and records were not adequate to readily identify locations. --The Navy's records were neither adequate to calculate exact quantities of fuel discharged from oilers and carriers nor were they adequate to estimate quantities of fuel discharged from other vessels. --Navy records available showed that, during fiscal years 1974 and 1975, oilers and carriers discharged from fuel tanks at least 13 million gallons of a water and fuel mixture. We determined, on the basis of Navy estitates of fuel content in the mixture, the fuel in this mixture was worth about $500,C00 (1.9 million gallons). Also, oil products in ex- tremely low concentrations are discharged annually along with bilge and ballast water. -7 5~~ o~ LCD-76-420

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