is essentially going to be spent
the morning
on
of
discussion
various
We will start with Forest Miller.
aspects of soil sampling.
Excuse me, Bob.
~ OR. MCCLELLAN:
The rest of
We're going to change subjects now.
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
Later today in the wrap-up,
am I
correct to assume that Bruce Church is going to give us a little bit of a
feeling where:this is going from here in, e.g., the internal dose area?
CHAIRMAN-MOSELEY:
That's what is being scheduled.
MR. CHURCH: Th going to talk somewhat about that.
OR. MCCLELLANE:| L'm interested in having some time to discuss that.
DR. MILLER:
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This turned out to be one of the more fun things of the
sortof patd vacations.
We visited eastern California,
1l
project
so far;
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Nevada,
northern Utah,
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Wyoming, western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, and northern Arizona,
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looking for candidate soil
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locations.
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triangles beside them,
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taken (FM-2).
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southeastern Oregon,
samptingsites.
southern
Idaho,
We found 306 of them at 132
Many locations had multiplecandidate sites.
‘locations.
southwestern
The towns with
like Montrose, “Rifle and Meeker, had soil samples
I think there were about 190soil samples taken from about
Livermore
rejected
some— ofour
soil
sampling
site
candidates and substituted others so that the 306—isn't really fixed.
We tried to select soil sampling sites which met the EML criteria
In brief, the areas EML were interested
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which you got in Standing Order 4.
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in were undisturbed, and yet maintained since 1950, -at--least 40 feet in
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diameter, relatively flat and open and with ground cover” such as grass to
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minimize wind or water erosion.
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that would serve as collection points due to rain bringing in fallout.
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We also watched forlow places in lawns
We ranked these candidate sites
as either
"A,"
"B,“ or
"CC."
"A"
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meaning, meets the EML criterion every way we knew; “B" meaning slight
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deviation from optimality which might mean some trees in the lawn, or the
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