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Title: Report to the Congress on ocean pollution, monitoring, and research, October 1988 through September 1989

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5672596

The report is structured along organizational and programmatic lines, and emphasizes the activities and accomplishments of the Ocean Assessments Division and the National Ocean Pollution Program Office. As in other recent annual reports, only those monitoring, research, and assessment activities that receive NOAA support under either Title II of the MPRSA or Sections 4, 6, or 8 of NOPPA are described. Activities currently conducted under the program include: a cooperative interagency analysis of marine pollution issues and priorities, and planning the necessary research and monitoring strategies to meet these priorities, a national program to assess the status and trends of coastal marine and estuarine environmental quality, including a NOAA quality assurance program for analytical measurements, a program to assess the effects of selected toxic chemicals on populations of living marine resources, and a national capability to provide scientific support services during Federal responses to spills of oil and hazardous materials and during cleanup of hazardous waste sites in coastal areas.

Research Organization:
National Ocean Service, Rockville, MD (United States)
OSTI ID:
5672596
Report Number(s):
PB-91-172361/XAB
Resource Relation:
Other Information: See also PB91-172353
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English