TERRESTRIAL PROGRAM aame MININU: OPTION The Terrestrial Program involves going onto the islands without a backhoe and sampling the available terrestrial food products, surface soil, and existing water cisterns and skinming wells. Transportation ef personnel to the islands will be by nelicopter when the whaler Cannot be used. On larger islands, a jeep will be necessary to relocate gear, water barrett? and personnel. Transzporting the jeep from ship to island and from island to island will have to be accom plished using the helicopter. Cn the average, 35 surface soil samples and S50 vegetation samples . toe : will be collected at each atoll, requiring analysis for 137 Cs, 90 Sr, and the transuranics of approximately 1,100 samples. The assumption that there will be three well sites or cisterns on the inhabited atolls will require the analysis of an additional 21 samples to determine the radionuclide concentrations in water. A total of seven personnel will be required to support this program.