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SUPPORTED DOD'S CLEANUP EFFORT.
4.
NEW SURVEY NOW BEING PROPOSED BY DOE IS DIFFERENT
IN ALL THREE RESPECTS: (A) FULL SUPPORT BY DOD MIGHT
CALL FOR SURSTANTIAL ADDITIONAL RESOURCES; (RB) SURVEY
HAS HOT BEEN INCORPORATED IN ANY PLANNING TO DATE?
AND» IW FACT+ IT IS AT ONDS WITH SOME ASPECTS OF
CAREFULLY DEVELOPED+ DETAILED DEMOBILIZATION PLANS;
AND
(C)
SURYEY,IS NOT
IN SUPPORT OF DOD CLEANUPe
RUT
RATHER OF
EHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMS,
5. ON OTHER HANDe THERE CAN RE NO DOUST THAT NEW
SURVEY PROPOSED BY DOE IS URGENTLY NEEDED AND IS
ESSENTIAL TO SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF OVERALL PROJECT,
DOD SHOULD CLEARLY BEND EVERY EFFORT TO PROVIDE MAXIMUM
POSSIBLE SUPPORT TO DOE.
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6. NEW DOE SItIRVEY PROPOSAL CAN BE SUMMARIZED AS FOLLWOS:
Ae SOIL“SAMPLING EFFORT WOULD REGIN ABOUT I MAR
1979 AND REQUIRE AROUT SEVEN MONTHS TO COMPLETE.
Be SURVEY INVOLVES ALL NORTHE®N ISLANDS FROM
BIKEN (LEROY) ON WESTERN SIDE CLOCKWISE To BILLAE
(WILMA) ON EASTERN SIDEe LESS PERCY AND URSULA,
Ce PLAN INVOLVES SOIL@SAMPLING ON SO=METER GRID
ON ALL ISLANDSr WITH MODIFICATION TO 25 METERS ON
SOME SMALL ISLANDS. SOIL PITS ABOUT THREE FEET DEEP
WOULD BE DUG AT GRID NODES+ AND SIX SOIL SAMPLES TAKEN?
AT
10-CM DEPTH INCREMENTSe
IN EACH PIT.
CO. CONCEPT ENVISIONS SURVEY TEAM ESTABLISHING
GRID+ ASSISTED BY BRUSH=CLEARING EFFORT AS REQUIRED»
FOLLOWER BY RACK=HOE OR SHOVEL TEAMS DIGGING PITS»
WITH SOIL SAMPLER TEAMS THEN TAKING SAMPLESe PROJECT
PARTY WOULD RASE AT LOUWA AND BE “MOVED BY BOAT FROM
ISLAND TO ISLAND IN ACCORDNACE WITH ESTABLISHED SCHEDULE.
EXTENT OF EFFORT IS SHOWN BY FACT THAT OVER £,000
SAMPLES WOULD BE TAKEN FROM NORTHEASTERN ISLANDS ALONE
(BOKEN TO GILLAE)+ EXCLUSIVE OF NORTHWESTERN ISLANDS.
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