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. NCRP Report No. 76. Bethesda, Md. 1984. 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