DRAFT 21- same time period on Bikini Island and the first few fruits from these trees have appeared over the past year and a half. The number of these trees is, however, not great and they are not distributed over the entire island. No breadfruit or pandanus fruit have been planted on Eneu. Banana and papaya trees were also being planted at two locations on Bikini Island ‘and have produced fruit over the past two years. As a result of the sparcity of available food crops, our goals in the limited survey were to sample the vegetation of all species of food crops available as well as indicator plants such as Scaevola and Messerschmidia; to sample edible fruit where available; and to take soil profile samples through the root zones of the sampled trees. From these data, we have developed concentration factors relating concentration in food products to soil concentration, as well as concentration ratios which relate the concentration in the vegetation (leaf) to the concentration in the edible fruit or the concentration in indicator species (Scaevola and Messerschmidia) to concentrations in food crops (5). A separate report (5) discusses in detail the results of the sampling program and the development of the concentration factor and concentration ratio. In brief, we found the distribution of radionuclides in both the Bikini and Enewetak environments to be very inhomogenous. Radionuclide concentrations in soil were observed to vary greatly over distances of only a few feet. The results of our work during this survey verified our thesis that due to the wide variability in soil concentration with location, useful concentration factors can only be calculated from Sone r: sectiea aaa om vegetation and soil data sampled from exactly the same site. Concentration