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to government organizations,

but to university marine

biologists who may want to spend time studying some aspects

of the coral atoll.

Some of these studies, at least, should

bear on the environmental thing.
We have in the Division a large program which is
purely environmental contamination studies which we carry
under the name of Gabriel.
worldwide,

The scope of that program is

The problem of the biological setup of the

Alderson Reporting Company
Washington, D. C.

contaminated islands is clearly likewise germane to that
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program.

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Department of Agriculture, because some of the outstanding

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skills in soil composition, soil analysis, and so on, lie

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there.

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That brings us into close cooperation with the

We have an extensive cooperating program there.

We also have a very elaborate setup fa@ analysis

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for longer lived isotopes.

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New York Health and Safety Laboratory, the Columbia University

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project, and one in Chicago.

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It is set up in three places, the

aspects here are quite broad.

So that the environmental
Any group that does the inter-

mittent surveys will have to plan that it will be not

only wrking for itself, for its own interests, but also
a service group for variouwother outfits who likewise have
very pertinent interests here, and have available skills and
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resources which perhaps wuld not be entirely available to
any one particular group..

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