3.

Development of procedures for sampling rodent burrows and lizard hibernals,
including associated soil, fungi, invertebrates, food caches, and waste
products.

4.

Continued examination for histopathological effects, particularly the
hemopoietic system of small vertebrates with high Pu carcass burdens.
Techniques are being developed to examine rodent bone marrow to analyze

blood cell formation and chromosome morphology as they relate to Pu body

burdens.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We wish to gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and assistance of the many
people who have contributed to this study.

Special thanks to Don Wireman,

Chuck Rosenberry and Erwin Hensley of REECo for their cooperation.

We wish to

thank Dick Gilbert at Battelle Northwest for supplying the contour maps of

Area 1l. Bill Major of LFE deserves special thanks for his assistance in
obtaining radioanalytical data.

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