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Under the Chesapeake Bay Program's Toxic Strategy. 11 grants totaling approximately^ 3 million were awarded These grants have been presented to the Maryland Geological Survey, the College of William and Mary, the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences, and the University of Maryland and others These institutions will examine the characteristics and movement of toxics in the Bay sediment, and determine the concentration of heavy metals and organic toxins that are currently exposed to the Bay's food chain from the sediment sources
The Toxics Program has been designed to determine existing conditions for toxics and hazardous substances in the Bay Data generated during the initial two years of the Program will be used to assess toxics
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