yt
Ween
athe
21.
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
Office of Water
interim primary drinking water regulations.
Agency, Washington, D. C. EPA-570/9-76-003.
22.
Title 63, Chapter 13, Subchapter VII.
standard regulations:
Supply.
National
Environmental
Protection
Washington, D. C., 1976.
Marine and fresh water quality
Amendments approved by Environmental Protection
Agency, April 19, 1983.
23.
As a rule of thumb, the 30-year dose is approximately 1.4 rem per.
rooting-zone pCi/g.
The estimate is based on assays of fruits and the
specific soils in which they were grown (not island means).
the dose-to-soil
activity ratio
is
1.5,
for Bikini
For Eneu,
1.3; average
1.4
(Appendix D).
24.
Robison, W.
L. Experiments in progress by Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory Group at Bikini Atoll, 1984.
Personal communication to the
Committee.
25.
.
National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements.
from the environment to man:
Metabolism and dose.
Cesium-137
NCRP Report No.
52, Washington, D. C. 1977.
26.
Schulz,
R.
K.
Soil
chemistry
of
radionuclides,
HEALTH - PHYSICS
11:1317-1324 (1965).
27.
Walker, R. B., E. E. Held, S. P. Gessel.
on Rongelap Atoll soils.
of Toronto Press, 1961.
in 1984.
and
Recent Advances in Botany, pp. 1363-67.
will
be
U.
Also, personal communication to Earl 5S. Stone
A review of the general
strontium
Radiocesium in plants grown
found
Protection and Measurements.
subject including cesium, potassium
in:
National
Council
Radiological Assessment:
on
Radiation
Predicting the
transport, bioaccumulation and uptake by man of radionuclides released
to the environment.
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28. ‘Robison, W. L. Communications to the Committee based on experiments in
progress
at
Bikini
Atoll
by
the
Lawrence
Livermore
National
Laboratory, Livermore, CA, May, 1984.
29.
Any kind of ocean dumping requires an EPA permit (40 C.F.R. Part 220,
et seq.), and this will
continue to hold in the Marshall
after the signing of the Compact of Free Association.
would
3000043
be
reluctant
to
grant
a
46
permit
now
since
the
islands even
Presumably EPA
international