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International Oil Spill Conference

Sponsors Enter New Partnership

The steering committee of the 1995 International Oil Spill Confer- ence and Exposition announced a new partnership with two interna- tional sponsors of the 14th biennial conference: The International Mari- time Organization (IMO) and the

International Petroleum Industry

Environmental Conservation Asso- ciation (IPIECA). "Achieving and Maintaining Pre- paredness" is the theme of the 1995 conference on the prevention, be- havior, control and cleanup of oil spills, an event which will be held

Feb. 27 through March 2, 1995 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, Calif. "The worldwide importance of oil spill planning, response and cleanup makes our new partnership with

IMO and IPIECA a welcome and needed addition to achieve confer- ence goals," said Dr. Jim Ray, 1995 conference chairman and manager of Environmental Science for Shell

Oil Company in Houston.

The conference, first held in 1969, historically has been sponsored by the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. En- vironmental Protection Agency and the American Petroleum Institute.

The conference provides an inter- national forum for the introduction of new prevention and cleanup tech- nology, the latest scientific research on cleanup operations, contingency planning, damage assessment, fate and effects of oil, and liability and compensation issues.

For more information on the con- ference, contact Cdr. Bob Pond,

U.S. Coast Guard, (G-MEP) Room 2100, 2100 Second Street, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20593, tel: (202) 267-6860.

Oakland Dredging Environmental

Impact Report Issued

Culminating a process initiated 24 years ago, the Army Corps of

Engineers distributed the environ- mental impact statement and re- port for deepening the Oakland har- bor, the fourth busiest U.S. gateway for container cargo.

The report recommends maxi- mum use of the dredged material for restoration of a 300-acre North

Bay tidal marsh known as Sonoma

Baylands, a habitat for three en- dangered species.

Save San Francisco Bay Associa- tion, the Sierra Club and other groups endorsed legislation autho- rizing and funding the Sonoma

Baylands project last year. The report also calls for disposal of dredged material at a federally-cer- tified ocean disposal site 50 miles west of the Golden Gate, the port- owned land now housing the

Galbraith Golf Course in Oakland.

Port officials say the $100 million project is urgently needed to restore the port's competitiveness, create up to 2,400 jobs and generate eco- nomic impacts of more than half a billion dollars.

The study took nearly three years to evaluate 23 alternative land, bay and ocean disposal sites for the dredged material, and focused on a short list of eight. Since none of the eight can handle the entire 5.6 mil- lion cubic yards of sand and clay to be dredged, the sites were grouped together to provide five alternative disposal plans. These range from almost complete ocean disposal, to disposal partly in the ocean and partly in the bay, to disposal en- tirely on land.

The simple way to 1{eep water out of lube oil ' ~

The cartridge filter element is easily and quickly replaced when necessary.

When it comes to removing damage-causing water from lube, fuel and hydraulic oil systems, this MMC clarifier/coalescer is virtually perfect: 99%' of the free water is extracted in a single pass!

Moreover^ this is accomplished with an inex- pensive cartridge filter element that is easy for an operator to remove and replace — quite unlike the more complex design of centrifuges and purifiers.

This filter also captures 99.9%" of suspended solids

Result: The oil going back into the system is not carrying any foreign substance that could cause erosion, corrosion or otherwise impede the cleansing operation.

And because they contain no internal moving parts, these MMC units stay on the job for many years—manufacturer's records show that some are still in use after 25 years of continuous service.

They are self-contained units that function equally well onshore, offshore and on shipboard.

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Mackay

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MACKAY COMMUNICATIONS INC., ANNOUNCES

THE INTRODUCTION OF THE SATURN Bt TRANSPORTABLE

INMARSAT-B DIGITAL SATCOM BY ABB NERA. • Digital coded voice at 16 KBPS • CCITT G3 fax at 9600 BPS • Hayes AT compatible data at 9600 BPS • 5, RJ-11 telephone/fax outlets with individual ID numbers • Ideal for operation in hazardous environments • Wide range AC/DC power supply • All electronics and sectionalized 0.9M dish antenna are contained in a single robust, transportable, rain resistant, travel case.

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