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DR. DUNHAM:

Is Donaldson's group going out there?

There is no point in having two or three different outfits
picking up soil samples, flowers and cocoannts.

DR. DUNNING:

It wuld appear to me that the purposes

of thisstudy and for the objectives for which the team is
going out there thatit

would be of secondary interest at

most to notice what the levels are at the islands now and in
the future,

In other words, we have all the data right now

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DR. BOND:

I was thinking more of the internal

considerations rather than the external.
DR. DUNHAM:

When it is safe for them to go back

or is it safe?

DR. BOND:

Along that line, I would like to state

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of contamimtion and decontamination.

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in which an area that has vegetation that is used as food

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stuff has been contaminated, and these individuals at NRDL

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