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Joe Fouchard, Division of Public Nov. 29, 1962 Information, Basdquarters I Dale J. Cook- - i -Assistant Informatism Officer,' SAN -( CpDC NEIIANDS PETIT 105.-50DEGA CLIPS I
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Attached for your information are copias of Dr. mailands
' petition and backup let.ters to the California Fablic Utilities Commissima for recessideraties in the 7054 Bodega application.
~ g,,p' Also, the a.m. seuspapere er,: M that a sessed petition has-
.; been filed for recensideraties of.the CPUC decision, which by the usy uns effective sevenber 24, 1962.
l Clips relating to both petitises are seemehad
Enclosures:
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.a. the Northern Califortua Assn. ,
to Preserve Bodega Head and
%. Harbor, asked for the Tc hcar- i l Ing. !
l I'4eje 10-f.F.Exalutetrr l He said the question 'd pos-1 4 , %.4.v. % :v. mr , O' SC2H v slble dangers of radiation
' should be explored again. He '
chcarino-3- of also the pointed out,the location
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s The plant safety system. g *-
. Pesonen said. was given only casual attention at earlier l iSite Asked . .- - < 9Tatiaretiiionwasf11ed '
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dlOin Plant t . ands. a University of Cahfor- . 1 6 nia hiochemist, who ciaimed 4
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1 he had new evidence of the plant's possible harmful ef- , A riew petition asking the f act on marine hfe in Bodega Bay. State Pubhc Utilities Commis-1 sion to hold another hearing
- Nellands charged that UC ,-
on the $61,000,000 ruclear Chancellor Edward W, Strong , poutt electric generating ii. ' had held back an unfavorable report made by scientists in- % *
' plant Pacific Gan & Electric i Co. wants to build on Bodega 6
- test! gating the feasibility.of I
'l' Head was filed yesterday. l constricting a university ma-.'
* " i I trina biology station adjseent ' . '
' i ito the power plant. '
'A university spokesman for -
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; Strong said yesterday that the
- chancellot had not released '
the report beesuse it was on a ,
. i specific administrative prob.
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't interest. .
e Strong rfenied that the re-
*, port contained an unfavorable *
' recommendation regarding10 ,
- i icating the hiology station ad-jacent a to the power plant,
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New Plea to Block A. Plant f WL/%tk N AV/b 2= ' i ' A second petition was filed with the State yester nurs tnother petition in ing installa!!on world pre. day seeking to block con ** which Dr.1 B. Ne11 ands, a sent problems.' i University of Ca:!!ornia bio
" plant -on g[ chemistry profenor, request. ThelegalPublic Utilities
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ead county coast / on - the Sonoma ed a rehearing, mainly on review the two petit!)ns soon ,
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grounds the examiner had and send its opinlocs to the The petition filed by a Bay Commission, which ,will then Area conserva,tionist group
- nel considered a report in * 'i esked the Calliernia l'ublic which UCscientists expressed rehearing. *
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Utilities Commission to 20- doubts about putting the re. consider its orter-effective actor next to a ur.lversity a yesterday- giving the Paci. clarine biology station there. fle Gas & Electr6c Co. per. Professor Nellands.cheryed mission to build the Sol mij. l'C Chancellor Edward W. hon project, Strong had held back the , The petition charges that scientists' report on the site. a PUC examiner in the origi. Dr. Strong said yesterday i nal hearings did not retcive such investigative reports l
. or encourage a full a! ring of are never made public. He *
- the facts. .
- said final evidence in the in. ,
It further sayr; a rehearing ve:itigation showed the nu. J
, is warranted on grounds that clear discharge *would not ,
new sdientific knowledge has adversely affect the shore 2 developed concerning the life." ! safety of the p>wer plant's llowever, the contmittee teactor, radioactivity haz- chief, Dr. Ralph Emerson, . ! ards, and the roh of an earth. professor of botany, said the quake fanit. report nudo it clear that to The request was made by have a n arine laboratory the Northern California As. sociation to Prestrve Bodega next to an atomic power
- IIcad and liarbor Bay Arca Iplant cfns." "But. presents he said,certain the re-prob.
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A University.of California
,U.C.."Bicichemist Takes on .
l f professor "who has to say no" Atom Plant Bett e l " 0C%'%";"a : Foielc.e.in i I C a11f o rnI a Public UtHitics Commisaion, the Atomic En. Conunued from Page 1 !the Atomic Energy Commise struction. The 1 observation.ists their desire for a lab some' ing6toionthe gave plant andits unofficial the PUC say bless. the. grounds tn the pic-crgy Commission and 250,000 l app oved its construction two turesque Bedega area should gallons of hot wiler a minute place, he adds, be preserved in their natural 6although riot necessaruy in "The university administra- wecks ago, Nellands contin. state. ' thttt order. ', tion told them frankly they'd ucd "Cuess hissay you'd opposidon. Pm per. Neuands-who will have no Dr. John D. Nellands 41. a havs 18 take PG,AE there and sistent,"
, he persisted. This direct' connectioi wIth the professor of biochemistry and hv0
- O E makes me seem a little shrill marme research lab- feels, a man busy w r e s tlin g with and puts me in an awkward urnply, "there's a higher tisc formulas and his conscience, t EMERSON CO3DIENT asked the PUC' yesterday to
' Dr. Ralph Emerson, profes- position. I've had to wrestic for Bodega llead."
reconsider its approval of con. ser of botany, headed the f ac. with my conscience." lie said there has been no ulty committee which pre. OT!!ER PROTESTS static or reperetssions"in hls struction of a P G & E nu. c! car power plant _ at Bodega , pared the new controversial Conservation groups ' and, tiff with the clancellor's of. Bay, i report in 1961 He said todo , lieveral other scientists from!fice "Dut sotoebody has to
'DESTftUCTWly I "We recommended the uti- colleges in the area have pro.[say no. And in this case, it's tested the power plant con lme."
U.C. Is building a marine bl. . [or ke fab esp te a ological station next to the problems" might crop uo proposed plant site. And Nei- from the neighboring power a' ' lands says he is convinced the . planL nature of the plant operation The inajor "possble risk" < will destroy the value of the e of the side by sido byout, tc
- arca for biological rescarch.
- said. and tre committee said,
.The umversity administration I would be from the hot water
.knows this, too. NcHands says. , t emissions. "But the report."
but won't admit it. - I he added "doesn't call for the
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j Nellands s a y.s Chancellor ,i custer of FG&E frora that l Edward W. Strong is pigeon. 31te." ' '. In May, Nellands circulated 1 holing a two. year old report . 1 made by a faculty committee- . a petition protesting construe. j
,t h a i recommended against; . Don of th , plant. Neilands, 4
; building the lab next to the '
who receivod httle fsculty sup. nuclear plant. i port in getting signatures, said , This report says: "Blundy l' he may have erred in not dik
- stated IBodega Bay) is a cussing the pctition first wtth ,
unique, Class A site for a
- the chanen!!or.- j l marine facuity being exploited i AGAIN DMIMTED f diis move to oppose construc.- ,
tion of the plant also was de
- j Dul a U.C. 6pokesman said '
I feated in an Academic Senate l today C h a n e e !I n r Strong 8I vote. The chancellor at that J
. didn't feel the report was ' time said it was inappropriate.
smportant enough to be re. for the university to take of , s leavd publicly." The spokes. ficial positions on matters not man said the ur.httshy ad. '
- Involving the school or its .
mmistration believes there is work. . ro seterdific cvidence to show But Nellands didn't let thi s the fB1 m!! hon power plant chiding stop him. Even when will damagc rescarch at the' i l a lab. i Nellands. and a few ctner scientist.t. I n a is t, howes ar.l i I
. that the buildmg of an access l read to the pMnt and the fact '
the nuc! car facility will du. ' charge E0,000 gallons of hot i i water a minute will hamper *
.I l rescarch efforts.
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uho tangled with Chancellor c 3
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Strong on the same issue last May, contends U.C. wanted to < build itA lab at Bodega a half I l . dwen years ago. l ' 1 0001:03 Dl'.ST . .i Then, be says, when f'01E - l came up with its nudcar l- j Plat prwosal, U.C. stepped . 8', 644 We started considering new sit-s for the lab. Dut Do.
- dua Bay was 6till the best. .
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bb there or nonc at all," says l i the proic'.sor. And scientists who earlier opposed the cono
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pCTITICN BtfGAE Trdt DU3LIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Of THC STAIC Of CALIF 0%IA i In tno er.tter of the complication of poef fic Ces
- and Cicetric Ccmpcny fde o ccrtificeto of con- Application No. 43608 vonienco cnd noconsity to constructs instelle Docu1M h. M37 operetc cnd maintain Unit No. le c nuclect power unit, et its Bodege Boy Atorric Derk.
Now comca the undersigned with a pctition for o rohocring designod to resolve c tt 1 creo es a locolo for mczino biological roscerch end study.controvct Fced ! hvoetion Contemporary marino biology is e now frontier or invcatigatione in the sphero of etomic cncrgy. tho world food prob 1cm through clgel culturo.from the clescicel .i n of pheso it ; objectives is certcin to be rowcrded with purcly fcrtuitous discoveries such es theIn} rocent finding that, among a lorgo numbcr of experimental animols te od, only in the i send deller will thelidomido consistently kill th0 dovoloping ombryo its ottontion upon Bodege Hood es thin 1953 tho Chencollor's f aculty Commi e f avored sito for e merino facility. This solce. i Nationci pr.rk Servico report which finds Bodoge biologic crces of the pecific Coesta 2 . cent hcod to to o the ! The purpos l the offcet integrity of the cren.of tno cubsoquant plenned industriclizction o ogicci s of Bodc venience to the University becomes et enco cico ncon- e public . incon Prie fn ~M dm er rekeerie gists from Stenford University (Costorn Society of Naturalists), Sen frencisc Colic;cperk. Atomic cndDrthe University of the poeific testified in opposition ets cy the Bodege to g of 20 ycus exper. Jool ienco.Hedgpoth, Ho is Director of the University of the pecific mfrom the letterl i et Dillu 's Beecn which is only e (cw miles frce Beccgs Hecd. arin itetion ' he in'OrGd the Commission that " Location of this plant On merch 5 of tnis year seriously this crce forinterfere with tho crggintl piens of thocod mcrino resoerch" its servico reeds will University of Californie o zo to ut ll from Dr. A D. McClecy (Attechmont I).This epinion io supported by the ettechod Ictter NewM1I'n E1.ll impeirOccicion oporationNc. of the64537 Bodegothe Comission marino Lcborotory. ogo has dctcrminod Bey Atomic park that B They steto ameny of tac protcstchts scomcd to teko the position thet the nuclost plant end eithor marino biolo-Tho record, howevor, bolics their position."gy or conservation o the cro
- r. mutually e 7his opinion appctra to be besod solcly on cortsin stetomonts mede i n the course of the ho: rings Colifornia by Mr. A. 5. Loopold, Assistent to the Checcllor (Berkcloy).
thoso of expcrt mcrino biglogists from other universiticsSinco thoso stetom
, protestants mede persistent Biological Lcborotery.ettempts to subpoone th6 files of the Chencoller's a ne faculty Co All er these reeucets ecro detod hv the Meeri e Ex vince.
During thc'past few months the history of University 'of Cellforni Hced hos a operations e idet Godege brought to buen light. resoorchod with the result that new end impertent v hocring. This meterial provides tho bcsis fer the prosent requestbeert ence hos for e to-sNewiv r*!cworod evidence The possiblo dolatorious offcet of the Bodoge Bey Atomic crk ncmely, ings, on tne function of tho Boccge marino Laboretcry mey be discussod under two h tid:.londs occoss (c)reed, the effect of the warm wotor cischcrgs ond (b) the offect of the (e) MIS, ntfu m ehereo l o lifc is, odmittedly, difficult to prodict.Tho ultimato offcet of tho werm weter offlusnt on shcro is not expected te bo sorious is probably en optimistic conclHowevor, Mr. Lcopold's contontion l the i usion. 1960 the University epperontly rogerced this oc;,rco of pollution es intolcreblo (A In the summer of i iont III thw ech- ! l ves medo .t* % hm 9$dm Hud entirclv.volumo hcs now boon fixed et 250,CD collens ' por m The comittco of biologists spent the autumn of 1960 scorching fcr c ind it hos boon rumored that, on Noventor n clternots Si's
;cport to Choncollor Soeborg. 29, 1960, they transmitted c snerply wrA C
.o make this report avoilebit The prcsont Cnencollar, Dr. I. W. Strong, hos declir ed to interosted membuts of the feculty end until recontly
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s , I ho hos menaged to koco it out of the public demoin. However, the Se%,twl TJm for October 11, 1962, hcs now published whct is claimed to be e verbatim pcssego from .
, ' . that report, nomaly, "woighing all rolovent espo ts, wo egrood unanimously that thero
{ was not o ningle onc of thoso sitos that wcs cau:1 to Bodogo Hced os it now stands . 4 Bluntly str.cd, o uniquo Cless A site for o merinc fccility is being exploited for l power production." ' -! In tho mer,ntimo pocific Ccs and CicetrIc hcd r:tr::tod to the tip of the headlon,d and , the Committeo. r:luctantly docided te occupy the cdjoining property to the ncrth. At the Commission hcorings in Mey,1962, Ifr. Leo;old sought to . justify tho return to Dodego mcinly on the basis of certain studies moco in Croat Britain conecrping t.ho ef fcets of power plont dischargos on merino oc: logy. During cross examination, how- l over, the Eritish studies more shown to be slip-chcd end in:pplicable to the Bedcom Heed-situction. Furthormoro, the University enlculctions,' confoscod mr. Leopold, were besed on the expectation of ga,g, ya.,Lt, wherces the Compeny' hod announced thet in the noct futuro thrco additional units would bc installcd tnus bringing to 1,000,0C0 colloris the emount of wormed water dischorgod per minuto. Limitations of spcce do not allow a e totol exposition of tho other dcptcdotions to tho environment which m:y ans.o from the rcpid trensfer of this volumo of water. l (b) Tielvh ngan.3,Isaa The University was noptrontly tekon complotoly by surpriso ) l by the convenient crrcngement betuson Senom: County end PC&E whereby en eccess rood 1 would be leid through the steto-own.cd tidulends. Chencoller Strong choroctorized the subscouont realignment of a portion of the road ovor University property es a " minor ,
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'l concession" and he plceded with the Army Corps of Enginocrs to withhold from Sonoraa i C unty the nocessery construction pctmit (Attccheont III). In the public hooting- I which followod on fcbruary 15, 1962, the Acting-Director of. the merino Leboretory, Dr. I Cedot Hcnd, condemnod the roodw:y "in its antiroty". Ho stot ogo of the Univurcity was etypical end eccenticily :.:scloss fc,od thct tho studies r biological ,herbor end front-thot the preposed rocd would dostroy "ccmc of tho very voluss which Icd us to chocso this hcodlend es cur sito in the first pir.co" (Attechmont IV).
- In epito of thenc pronouncements ltr. Leopold cppe: rcd Ocforo the Commission to tottify, .
without cloborotion, thot the University no longer opposed the roec. No mentioned that j Dr. Hand took e firmcr stand ogoinst the rood thnn Chonccller Strong but this conclusien j 1 is not supported by Attechmont III to this potition. In the recent docision of the Commission it is perhops significant that Commissioner Holobeff filed the folluging dissenting opinion on the locotion of tnc tidelends roedt "I find nothing in tho ergumcnto for Ac tidolands rood which suggests thct it is noecesery for it to bo so loccted in order to cffcetivelya sorve the pl.:nt sitos edmittocly, en uplend rood would acccmplish tnic purposo covelly wcll. Nor do I find anything in those crguments which suggests that toch c r0ed would bo c"vsleat, for tno record is reploto with toesons suggesting substentini dotriment to the public re-
.sulting thcrofrem". Ind:od, the cost differentia.1 betwocn o tidolends and en uplands routo is ncainal end thoro is nothing in the record to indiccto thet tho opplicent '
strongly fcvors the former locetion. *
, ,1 footnotes THIS 00RLD, Son frencicco Chronicle, Aucust 26, 1962 2
pACITIC COAST RECREATICN ARCA SURhiY, DEPARMENT Of THE INTERIOR,1959 Lotter frcm Jccl 0. Hod;;oth to public Utilitics Commission detod merch 5,1962 I p repcred in f,crkeley, C:lifornie, this 26th doy of November,1962. t
.1 Distribution: Tc cll oppocronces beforo A43608.
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p, Copy Ccpy Copy THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Boltimoto 18, Mary 1 cod Morgenthaler Lcboratory Mey 9, 1962 For, Biology l l Dr. J. B. Neilends Department of Biochemistry University of Californie Berkoloy, Cclifornie e Door Joo: I hevo heard that en otomic installation is planned very necr to whoro your now marine biology lob is to bo locotod. I hope that this is not nn irroverciblo docision. It would bo most unfortuncto to hevo such a plent necr the laborotory cito ,for, as you know, this will grcctly citor . the total ecology eround the lab in o very short timo. Un for tunc tcly, thorc , 1 crc too many pleccs these dcys that crc bcing contaminated by industriel l westos cnd oc a consequence m ch of our shorc lino hos ocen castroyed for I biologicol studics bocauso of our inooility to control the situction. I
- I hepu that this does not hoppen et your nce sitc and _I oncourego cll of I
thosc who might be concerned to look into this metter in greet cctcil be-forc c final decision hcs been rccched. Sincorcly yours, -
- w. D. McElroy Chairmen, D:pt, of Biology WOM/hy Director, McCollum-Prett Inst.
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Dr. McClroy is Presidont of tne Accricen Socicty of Biological Chemists, thu highest olectivo offico in American tinancmistry. Ho is e member of the Executivo Committoo of the Voods Ecic Morino Biological Laboratory. - the lotter recognized es tho. foromost lotorntary of its kind in the world, whero ho hos tought the cours: in Physiology for five yeers. Dr. McElroy hcs been ossociatod with en Ad Hoc Committoc concorned with the granting of Fodorel funds for the osteblishment of morinc research fccilities. G h
st 5. . p 'R Attachment 11' T f' Ccpy. Copy Copy THE UNIVERSITY Or CALIrCRNIA Clerk korr . presid2nt of the University Clenn T, Socborg Office nf the Chencellor Chcnceller at Barkeley Berkeley 4. Cclifornia June 28, 1960 , Mr. philip S. Flint . The Sierro Club 611 Bryant Stroet polo Alto, California Doer Mr. flint: I have doleyed answering your'Istter of Jur.c 8,1960 until I hed received ' written reports from the ocacnographers end biclogicts censidcrinc the Hersea shee Covo, Bodoge Head sito for a f4crino Diological Lcboretcry. I hevo now received these reports, and will try to summarize them for you es requested. Cooling water for the pC&E pcwcr stetion would be decen continuously from ! Bodego Bay just insido the entrance chonncI, cno wculd bc' discherged on the beech et a point about 4000 fcet south of Norseshca Cove. pumping would be at the opproximoto roto of 200,000 gallons per minute. . NormcIly, the dischergo
- wotor would be 13 to 16 degrecs fahrenheit warmer then the inteke water. At ,
times the ecoling water sculd be recirculated to reise its tooperature approxi- i metely 50 dogrcos Fehtonhcit above intokc tc4croturb to removc ths growth of fouling organicme in the linos.' The frequoney of this .oporctien can bo predicted i only by cporating experienco, but it was the opinion of the pCLI g,ngineers, with ! whom our poopic consulted, that this night ? once o month one f.,r c., durotion of 20 minutus. . The ocecnographors stcted that ncrmelly the wermed water would flow to the scuth, ewey from Norseshco Cove, but thet ncethornly ficws could bo expceted from time to timo, cnd during these perlocc Hcracehoo Ccw 21Gh t be expected to be bethod for l periods of some hours in the essentially unmixed of fluent at near discharge temper-eturcs, i.e.,10 to 15 cccrace fchtenhcit warmor then the normel occen to perature in the vicinity. The commitico of biologists studied this rcport end ccncludcd thct they could not forecoct with cny prkcicion whoc thc c:onseqv.nt ecological changos would be, out tha f act thet the ccclogiccl future of Bodega Hood was unpredictetic mcde it un-l casirable to locetc a marinc lc3crt. tory at Fctsachoc Cove, in viss of the plcns . ( for the pcwcr stetien. Thus, the ec cittcc ic now exploring altc;nct; sito possia bilitico. I shoul'd liko to cerrcet c micconccption contcined in your letter tc the cffcct thet *The Lcboretory wcs to bo ,ho sccend lcrgost cecenogtephic scetion in the
, United Stetss" In reality, tho University is plcnning to devcing a tccching end rescarch stotion of modest slac for uso by the Sorkcicy and Devia ccnpures. !
Sincercly yours, Glenn T. Sseborg
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Sen Francisco, Calif. ! Dcor Colonel Morrison, ' In responto to United Stotes Army Enginocrs District, Son francisco, Corps of Engi-nocre Public Notice No. 62-51, tho L'niversity of Cclifornic wishes to rogister e formel protest egoinst the proposed tidolonds rood clong the scat shcro of Bodoge Hcrbor. 1
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After many ycers of study tho University chosc Bodoge Heed es the boet site for tf e ' l new Ecrino Biologiccl Resecrch Leberetory. The choice was besed upon meny conditions, ono of tho most importent boing that the site offers moximum vcrioty of ecologicel hcbitots which by their netuto previde the grectest variety of f aunel end florel elements. Our proposed pRns cell for rcur.rch nad too:hing in all erces of meriro ! biology and our succoes will in pcrt dcpend upu roedy eccess to e wido verioty of crgnnisms. Tho naturalby It would be obliterated shoreline the road. is cnc cf thc rivhost sources of invertobreto 11fc. Looking bock on the history of biology, mcny sigrificont edeentro ir knowledge hcve had shoretheir origin inScy. of Bodcge the Most studyofofout merinc organisos such es thoso : net occur clong the by blood, ncrvous trontmistich. bcsic kralcdy, of cell 'divisien, Oxy;on trenspert of see urchins, worms, squies enc other marino nnimois.Cx:rction
?,d rWr:dstion The discoveries have coms fro . the stucy originelly ecdo on those lowly crseture: have played vitel roles in our uncerstonding of men end from marino resoerch have dovelosod principlcs in mcdicino upon w* ich u,o cre ell dependant for our well being. Since tharc is no way to predict from wh:: perticuler {
marinc orgonism soma new end importent discovery may to meds in tho h wrce we can ] only gogord cvory mnrino ctgenism es a scientific esset to bo prssecucc fcr study. ) In the highor numbers rcochesmerino of intercating of the animals. tidol 2snc - whcrc the reed will b; - khc.'o cre lerge Scvorcl opscics of clems (P. stemince T. docuseto, hcbitst. M. etcnorio, Throo of thom, E. its,s, E. boltlec, M. ecautc) cre to bc found only in this j Ey e, cre highly togerded es humen foad.the Cockies PrctctMec cnd Icpcs cnd the long-nccked clem, ! Hugo b;da of the ghost snrimp (Cellonesse) cnd its essociated fcuno occur hcrc to:. Thc reed would cover bods cf ths alge Voucharic and the casocicted Nudibreich mcIlusk Ald;ric cs well es the numsrous spccios of smaller organisms such ce cepep:ds, protozoon end segmentcd uctms. In plecca the projccted roed , moves into dooper watcr enero it would effect othar impor-tent orgenisms suen es the edible horsensek e.nd Wshington cicms. Thus the propes2d roed would oblitcrete in tho vicinity of our 1:bor: tory en importent asgment of the local founo. From the stondpoint of the University en ovtriend route to tnc Cempboll Covo erea would be very much preforcble. Such o routc uculd be more f.:enic, would evcid oncroach- i of the tidal prisms end would preservc the naturel shcrolinc and tital crees which wo hope to uso es ocurcos of orgoi. isms for our stu-Jics. .At present tN herbcr shoreline is on which birds attractivo endthere gather biologically to food. rich croc es nttssted by the tuusands of shore Theno valuso would diseppcs: uit whilo en interior routing would ovoid the significant Icoscs indicctcd above.e tide' lends roed, Tho University hos discussed the routing of the roed with Sonome County officiels snd roccivco from thom a minor concession in the form of inlend routing of a shcrt portion - of the road on what will be port of the Marino Rosearch Stetion site. This perticular , sit of shoreline which will be preserved is actuelly etypical, consisting lergoly of ,' sind-blown Jrcsont send from alsowhore thothe along edjecent shorc.dunces it does not have many of the foune elements At tho serly mostings with the County, Dr. Cedat (. j end, the Acting-Director of the mcrine Rosocren Stetion, inforacd the mooting tho; i ac cpposed the shorolino rood end, in fact, thet he would be derclict in his duty :.f he took cny other stend, The destruction of the biological rcsourcca would lower the !> valuo of Bodego Bey qs e scientific rosserch sito, end on these grounds we register our objcction to the proposed road. { ec Cherica do Turk Clerk Kctr e isichord 'Her tsock I* Imil mrck D. merie
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. . . . Attechtent IV TESTIMONY Of DR CADET HANO, f0Th\C-0! RECTOR UNIVERSITY OF I CALIFORNIA 80 DECA' MARINE LAEDAATO?.Y, BEFORE ARMY.CCRPS OF
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Colonal Morrison and Centlemen. Acting-Dircetor of tho Ecrino Rescerch St tion of the UniversityI of Celifornia.I cm a profcosioncl morino teologist, with expericnco et marino Icboratorios on both the test end w:st coasts of tho Unitoo St tes nnd, es well, hove spent ext'cosivo periods of time et merino leboretorios in How:11,. Now Zaclend end Austrclic. II em amprcstnt. going to divert from my properod stctement to make clear the roosons under ahich or Strong dcted Februory 8,1962.When Mr. John Prother eddrcased you 50 rced c letter-signe I hevc c copy of thet Actter before me. Since it is clocr by tho introduction of that piccu of evidenco into the record by Mr. Prether liko intoitssoy rood entiroty.that I havo Chenecllor strong's permiccion to bo horo to l Cith these comm:nts, I will return to my prcpered spcoch.
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Hond es e cito for its now merino Inocrotary is pcrtinent . In oJr to my discu scorch for o sito, which hes boon en ective secreh einec'lg53, one of the primcry i considerations of merinc orgenisms. hcs boon that the sito must providc recdy eccess to e mcximol veristy ! the verloty of lifo to bo found in protected boys and herbors, mud end s:n sondy bocches and the epon outer const.
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Very few sitvetions exist in Cclifornic anich meat those requiromonts and which cro closo enough to the University compusse of Ocvis, ! Een of francisco these end Scrkclay to bc ovciltble to the students, reculty end rosoctch ateff institutions. Bodege Head, cur requiromonts, wo found, w:s the only location which met eli of cnd systomotically climinated the Monter0/Wo critically oxcmanad thc arco from mon , nroe, the pt. Reyes erco end tno Toc c.ca ' <. rr:c.crea, thc Sen Frcncisco erco, the Bolines 31 sito frem. our point of vite, cnd ec;od upon 3:. Bodego Hcod cle:rly is en oxcoption-recommendations the Regents of the University heve cuthorized the ecaujcition cf , martion of the heedi:nd fer our uns . Now, why do wo need a maximal vericty of merina segr.nisms? relevont hero. Men's knowledge Mac eccrued almdv The hist.acy of biology is whilu tod:y we hevo c hugo kn.ul dic of curs:lv n , theeno !.t is intorentina to note that xnewledic whicn :n doctor inst:n:c from studics of negenisms cth:r v cn man u nimselfOpplics
, ccr; in the first to kccp u In meny instencos thess ortcnisms bevt crg:nisme becn mcrir; :nes end pc ecn peint to such egnin for the chemistry cf clood onc te clcm3es s:uid end cerms for our bcsic knod.c for inf:rmeti;n on hecrt functi:n.
Car knoaledge of thc chcmistry end biochtnistry cf Labrycltgy cnd subscQucnt dev - cent, es wall as our knowledgc of the intam:tc dct:11s of cell divisicn hevo como ' 1 Iceted right horc clong our Sonoma County shorcs.from th; study of mcrin{! Ths occon hcs nct only contributed orQcnun. whjch sight into oursclvos, but from tho 0:Otr.c comt fortuitou' sly Mrvo provided us in-ucc of tho ocecn cod its meny socrets t: rica hervcats of food. To m0kc full intimetc menn:: ctc g:Ing to have to invcatigetc in the nost Icgical essets so have cround us.ovory Tomerino loc organism known to cs, and uc must 2cci:usly guced the bio. tno opportunity of critically cxemining a single in cerino org:nism some pcrticular ospoct. may meen the loss Of out only chenco to moko men's lifo catter Ao further evidcnce of tno neccasity of studics on merino orgenices, I should e cite th fcct that tharc crc ot this moment throo bills pcnding in the Sonoto end Hpuso of Representetivos of the U.S. which eru dcvatcd to:increcsed federzl sup; ort of merlio resac;ch funds for morine octivitico end the Prosidbnt's (of the U.S.) new budget doub!cs the sito of tcsocrch studics and men'a vary sur. There is en cir of urgency concerning the need for merinc from the cc:. Certcinly, in the reco of evannding and exploding the populcti:ns,viv selve cvan cur necds for food.dCvol ptunt of cur us; of merino rctuurces uust oc multiplied ma i ditn thcsc vest intr:ductory romerks, I will nor turn my ettanti:n to the metter of the churc roed. ' It.should bo eloor from my previous tomerks that thu University ss rcpr cented by its scientists must hold es critical overy org:nism ovc110:!: to us. Uc crc davcl: ping a now vonturo, e me In: Icb:rctory, 1 tekc cuvent:ge of the rom :rk-ctic diver:ity of orgonisms eve 11cbic in tre herber end along the cocat of Sodege Head. ik connot tcll you noo tho'preciso vt.lvs th:t may ecmo frcm the study of cny one p oos cci but history hos tought us th'et oech orgonicm hcs its own cecrets end u; kn:w full ocll that coch cdditional bit of now information will find its plcco in our tetel knowludge (con tinuad) f 4
p I. STATClY.ENT OF DR CADET HAND (continued) of mon end this world. . . Somo of this now information mcy unlock diffic0lt prebicms related to cur health, our ecfoty and our ovorcll well being. ' Ecch organism is o trccsuro-trovo, a muscum of biological information, waiting for uo to turn it to our con advantage. To destroy a singlo species could, in the long run, turn the belance in our fight for survival egoinst us and cause our finci demiso. This is e grim cnd gloomy picture, but it is scientifically valid. To chooso betwoon men's survivel and the flecting vclues providod by the west shcro road is thus e simplo mettor. The rocd itself as proposed will destroy untold thoucends of orgcnism=. The best beds of rock cockles in this crce will bo covered by the road cc wcll es such other aciblo cicms cc Vachingtons, Houcnocks end tho introduced stocmcr, tho soft shc11 cl:m. Crect beds of the blue end white ghost shrirp, tho scusago worm Urochia, cicm worms, ribbon worms and meny difforent sagt.onted wormo will most their and under the spoil-cgc used to build the road. Scds of a curious morinc plent, Vauchcric, cnd en escociated merino slug will be do-stroyad, as w011 as a host of other cr;:.nisms. The highor rocchos of the shcro, whero the rocd will bo, cro favorod focding grcunds cf grect ficcks of curicus, cvoccts and . l other kindo of shore birdc. Thesc Orcot flock of birdc, incidantolly, cro testimony I to the cocith of cmcil marino enimals which livo chn; tacss shores. It is the loss of those many merina crgcnisms and the gr'.ct v:.lucu that they have to us cc scientific resourcos that ccusos us to strcnvoJsly protect ;nc rood. The County of Sonome hos been goncrously cooperative in rorouting c portion of the road over the proposed University prTort/, cnd they have prrirc
- edditionclly to remove the road from occ.;ntit.lly cil of tnc tidannds clong tnct ;,cr L:n of tho thors.
Ier this u;c 3ro most gr: 20ful. Unfortunctoly, a 1::rgo per:ica of tic hcrcer f;e .i;qe of the Univcc:;ty site is etypi- l col end is looco wincticwn .cnd retur than thw ri ch ' finct silts cf c.ncr pcrts cf the choro. Thuc, chilo this rcrcuting Orctccts en.1 coucc mcny organisms, tna rocd through-out the rost of its icngth doctrcyc scrc cf the /ory vcluos chich icd us to chooso this hocdlend es our sito in tho first ploco. It is regretable that c groot Univorsity and c grcet County find themssivos at ocds, but the values lost to the University, County, S:ctc, Nation and World by the presence of such a rood fcr outweigh the short-term volecc such e road might bring to the County cnd its users. Thenk you, i 5 Appleuso
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