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Engineering actions taken during cleanup and rehabilitation
operations provide a basis for measurement or other determination

of effectiveness and adverse impact.

Good initial assurance of

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satisfactory completion can be given.

Advi-vury acti ft; cover those activities of the returning people
and their professional counselors in response to instructions and
technical advice on land use, housing sites, dietary usages, etc.
Results will be achieved over a long period and depend on the
conscientious use of advice and counsel and require continuing
exchange of information between inhabitants and technical sources.

Because of time, human factors, pressures and qualifications, less
than optimum etfectivenes s may be pa
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Engineering actions are those upon which the U.S. parties to cleanup
and rehabilitation should place the greatest reliance for assuring con-

tinuing "as low as practicable exposures."
in nominally safe condition,

If the U.S. leaves the atoll

it can put the control in the hands of the

people with a high degree of confidence that predicted exposures will
not be exceeded to any significant degree.
scrap, construction of permanent housing,

Disposal of contaminated
selecting sites for any planting

of delayed yielding food sources such as coconut and pandanus, and drilling
and locating pumps at wells in uncontaminated ground water, are typical

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