~lle Scottsbluff, Nebr. Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington Wichita, Kans. (Silver Hill, Md.) Tucson, Ariz. This collection system does not provide immediate information on dose rates, since the samples must be mailed to the Health and Safety Laboratory and counted there. How- ever, the information collected has varied scientific uses. It is needed by the Commission to compute and record the overall accumulation of radioactivity as a result of tests. It is needed by the photographic industry and by scientists conducting experiments with low-level radiation, since these activities can be affected by even a very slight increase over the normal background. The data also are used by meteorologists to trace air masses and check predicted trajectories. | | More rapid information on radiation levels will be provided by 39 monitoring stations located in cities across the country. Twenty-seven of these stations have been set up by the U.S. Public Health Service, which has been furnishing fallout monitoring services to the Commission for the past two years in states near the Nevada Test Site. At the Com- mission's request, the Public Health Service has established (more)