1. Any areas or locations were soil concentrations of 232>5 are greater than 400 pCi/- should receive corrective action with contaminated soil removed for disposal. Situations with soil levels in the 40 to 400 pCi/g range may receive cocrective altioa vith #acu area or Location evaluated on a case by case basis. The following guidance is provided for this evaluation: Ae Islands with soil levels in the above range may be divided into two categories, those of sufficient size for construction of permanent houses, and those that are not, Removal of 739Py contaminated soil is Detter justified within tue ranze apove for the larger islands such as JXJET or SALLY where permanent housing may someday be located and for near surface locations on the larger islands. . The smaller islands may be considered of less concern. — Oey ae EbAtae Their leseters outlook is uncertain since they are sometines increasing in size and sometines erroding avay. Small islands may be washed over by stora Waves and are not a safe site for permanent housing. From that viewpoint, they are in the sane category as unnaned sandbars along the reef where other islands may have disappeared or be forminc, The amount of effort that properly may be eiven to soil renoval in this rance increases as the soil concentration increases, mee = At action is teste taken, the objective ts to achieve a substantial reduction fn plutonium soil concentrations, and further, to reduce concentrations to the lowest practicable level, not to reduce them to some prescribed numerical value. 141-12