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ERDA's SUGGESTED RESPONSE AND/OR COMMENTS (Continued)
5th sentence - Admit that some of the dangerous
radioactive materials will be taken up by pandanus
and breadfruit trees, but deny that they will be
concentrated
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Admit.
in the fruit.
Note, however, that an admission that certain effects
"ean'' occur, is not an acknowledgment that they will.
Note
also, the complete absence of quantification in this paragraph.
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Admit.
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We defer to DOD, but think It pertinent to note the fact that
@ concern was remoteness from all population concentrations,
not just U. S. citizens.
4g
Admit first sentence, deny last two.
Accuracy of dollar
figure in second sentence is speculative.
Last sentence
is argumentative and may well be untrue.
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Ist sentence - defer to DOD.
See also comments on
Paragraph 30.
2d sentence - defer to DOI.
Statement is probably true
as-to many Bikinians, but not necessarily all.
See
comments on propriety of class action (Paragraph 7).
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Deny for lack of knowledge.
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This paragraph is hard to respond to since we don't see the
point of it.
DOE ARCHIVES
Therefore, we suggest that the first sentence
(which fs rather argumentative) and the last be denied for
lack of knowledge and information sufficient to form a belief.
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