.2.) Data Bank The objective of this project within the Marshall Islands assessment program will be to organize into one location all available radionuclide data which has been obtained in the Marshall] Islands prior to, during, and after .the U.S.Nuclear Testing Program. This will allow for data analysis heretofore impossible, will provide a central location for the U.S. Government to obtain information necessary to answer questions which arise over the next several decades, and will provide a means to transfer data as needed. The data bank should include all the external gamma measurements and radionuclide concentration data obtained from soil, vegetation, animal, marine, air and water samples in the Marshall Islands from past and current programs. It must be possible to recall] the data by date, sample type, radionuclide, atoll, island within an atoll, location on the island, source of the data (i.e., laboratory or university etc.) and the analytical laboratory. All data taken prior, during and after the test years at the atolls should be included. The purpose is to have all the data available in one location so that it may be evaluated for time dependent information and so questions which arise about the historical situation at the atolls can be more readily answered. Particularly important will be the fact that the U.S. Government will have one location to call upon when questions arise over the next twenty or thirty years concerning the radiological status of the atolls. Whole body counting data and urine bioassay data should be included so that environmental data and human data are tied together and in one data management system, It would simplify matters if the data base format were consistent with those from current continuing DOE Marshall Island programs. In that way the first two years of this effort could be dedicated to entering all historical data into a system that would be compatible with current data. 43