Anticipated Cost Savings and Paperwork Reduction. The potential benefits of this project will be realized by focusing resources on well-defined problems that have been identified by the ecological risk assessment, and agreed upon as priorities by the TWG, PSNS, EPA, WDOE and stakeholders. Our goal is to avoid costly activities that will provide little benefit to environmental quality of Xxxxxxxx Inlet. We believe that long term targeting of pollutants that pose the greatest risks to Xxxxxxxx Inlet will result in the greatest benefit for all concerned. Integrating existing stakeholder monitoring programs into the project will result in some cost savings. Converting from existing data collection and reporting requirements to a comprehensive electronic database will reduce overall annual sampling costs and paperwork for all regulated facilities. The success of this project could bring additional cost savings through sharing of the project technologies with other military and civilian shipyards.
