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These cost estimates are based upon 1979 dollars and should be scaled
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by an appropriate factor if the peoples are entered into the program
in some other year.
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As previously noted, even a moderate increase in the work load per
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the letter of June 21, 1979, would require access to a new vessel.
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Although the cost of a new vessel was estimated in the previous letter
to be $1,500,000-$2,000,000, the actual cost may {n fact be closer to
$3,000,000. If the above atolls are added to the current base load,
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the adequacy of a single ship fs highly questionable. Should the
program be expanded to this level of effort, it would be essential
either to utilize additional ships or to consider alternate methods
of logistical support such as aircraft and atoll-based facilities.
Costs for such alternative support mechanisms cannot be estimated at
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Having just completed a multi-mtilion dollar radiological survey of
thirteen atolls in the northern Marshall Islands, the results of which
will not be complete for more than a year, {t is not anticipated that
further efforts of this magnitude will be necessary.
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except for the physical decay of the radionuclides present, ft fs not
expected that levels of radfoactivity will change significantly.
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Therefore, it appears that there would be little to be gained by
relatively frequent periodic radiological surveys of the same atolls. Should additional atolls be added to the baseline effort identified in
the letter of June 21, 1979, however, {t is estimated that about $200 K
(1979 dollars) per atoll per year might be required.
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Since the monitorin
and medical efforts share certain logistics such as ship support, any
increased work load in monitoring of additional atolls will again bring
into question the adequacy of a single ship, the adequacy of present
logistical arrangements, and the need for a new ship.
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tentative since circumstances beyond our control may strongly influence
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H. Hollister, ADASEV
L. Brothers, ADASEV
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Bruce/W. Wachholz, Ph.D.
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