Mr. Ted Massey:

Ultimately, the confusion primarily relates to the maps and differences in the maps versus what people would have expected. Some of that goes back to previous EPA publications. For example, its catchments of concern publication identified 12 catchments that needed nitrates reduction measures as a priority. If you look at the map that is being prepared and submitted to the Commission, it does not include some of those catchments, so people are rightly querying that. They are also looking at the map versus the map of the location of derogation herds and asking why they do not correlate better. In addition, they are looking at the map compared with the EPA map in the report around the targeting of measures. Again, they are raising the question of why the maps are not all aligning. The reason for that is because the EPA, in preparing the annex to the report, followed what the Commission requested of it in the Commission’s implementing decision. If one reads Article 12 of that decision, it sets out that the nitrates directive monitoring dataset is to be used for the preparation of this report. That is a subset of-----