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RCED-83-45 1 (1982-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmuh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 GEC 17 .J P ' Am: ES CO \,ALJN1 Ty L.NL ~' )tN,' \V )C V IL DP , jT . .. . F-2C4946 ' *,-,. The Honorable Norman E. E'Prours Chairm~an, Eui-corinIttee on Cceancqraphy Committee cn Merchant Marine and Fisheries House of Fepresentatives Lear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Corrments on a Critique of CAC's Padioactive Waste Ccean Dun-ping Feport (C-AC/FCEE-E3-45) In your August 2, 19E2, letter you requested that we review a criticue of our Cctober 21, 1981, report entitled hazards of Past Low-Level Radioactive h4aste Ccean Eumping Fave Peer. Overemphasized (EME-82-9). The critique, Fre- pared ty Yr. Clifton E. Curtis of the Center for Law and Eccial rclicy, disagrees with the overall conclusions stated in cur report that concerns over past radioactive waste ocean dumping have been overemphasized, and that ronitoring past duurpsites is of limited value as an aid to developing future ocean-du-ping regulations. The critique alsc asserts that our report did not acknowledge pertinent evidence and misrepresented other evidence which did not supEcrt our conclusions. In contrast to our report, the critique concludes that rcnitoring existing dumpsites is necessary to effectively assure public health and safety and to develop sound future ccean-durping regulations. Pfter carefully reviewing the evidence in the critique, we telieve tie findings, conclusions, and recommendations of our earlier report are valid, our presentation of scientific studies and oyinion is accurate, and the methodology we used is sound. Enclosure I presents our detailed evaluation of the issues raised in the critique and the methodology we used to make our evaluation. In iaking this evaluation, we reviewed the evidence presented in the critique, reexamined the information we had gathered during our earlier evaluation, and discussed the critique and/or our earlier report with many of the scientists we had originally contacted. 1111111111111111 l(301595) 120388

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