*********** 100693A.ENV *********** Contributory Categories: BIO, CHM, ENG Country: Japan From: Foreign Broadcast Information Service FBIS-EAS-93-164 26 August 1993 p. 10 KEYWORDS: Japan, Discharge regulation, Estuarine dumping, Nitrogen, Red Tides, Phosphorus Announcement that the Japanese Environmental Agency has set effluent guidelines for 88 bays and inland seas to start 1 October 1993. The attempt of the regulations is to prevent "red tides" or plankton blooms due to excess nitrogen and phosphorus, which deplete the oxygen in the water. Some 20,000 factories and sewage disposal plants will be affected. No set limits for nitrogen or phosphorus are given in the article, but I assume they are set on a case by case basis. How this will affect the U.S. Navy facilities in Japan is not known. ************** END Msg. A.ENV **************