Martin L. Biles
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approved site and rermit, are far more certain and implementable.
Thera cre no blinl restrictions, no harriers or time consuming hearings,
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and Cecisiens are to be made on the merits of the situation.
This
guid..nce in my view will iead to balanced judzements and actions
by otucr particu .ti.g patesid, Wilicl 2aG Peecgonable aud bencsicial
tomer, Gy contract, the U.S, Acta
PeA Iets. are Biased and
unreasenaule and mot necessarily in the Last interest of the U.S.
peoric.
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The U.S. Act ani IvPA Regs. in my view are preventing the interested
and respongibie Lederal avencies from considering the real issues and
merits cf the case for procecting the Enewetak people, and are tereing
an aroitvary decicicn to tury contaminated materials on land at mnewetak
Atoli when the bevt soliuticn by far for the Tnewetak pecple is Lurial in
the ncourcy ceep ocean.
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It appears to me, thnt the one-time disroval of contaminated soil and
Herap, wet the lovers we nave found at Nacwesa As not resily the kind
of dumeinw the Intarnational Necwistions t-ere intended to centrel much
less prevent. TLonebe this final point ice show how ciftfcrant the intent
of interr:ciional tec:vsiations eecins to ve compared to
#0 what we have
round in wisecussions with -TPA.
Part A cf <nclosure Il snowe that IAA has peiccted 10 Ci/t for alpha
Wastcs vith a half iite greater than 50 ycars, as the concentration above
whic!1 eusck wastes wouid be considered unsuitable for dumping at sea,
Puls concertration can be averaged over an smount of contaminated
material act excreting 1060 tonnes. Tae dumping rate for such concentrations can be any amount up to 100, OCO tons per year at any one
gite.
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The highest level of “"’Fu in eny soil gqsnple analyzed from the isJand
Lavin’ tho iitiast bevels at Qnuwetak was abou 2, 09 aCi/¢. woe Caint,
im Vile den Gd at: an omitirers in semlJswicnre thet the ratio of ett Yia/
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if imvyavithinetic ie corvact,
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Duclovure “ITD 3S, Oo pCi of 42% bain a cenm ef collis cbhout 3, 090
times leas than the LALA wimit ef 10 Ci/: nveraged over 103 tonnes of scil.
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