In terms of the total cleanup effort, 1 year was required to develop

Enewetak cleanup criteria, the time from the announcement until funding was
more than 4 years, and the time from the announcement until the end of
cleanup was 8 years. Since the fission product doses on some cleaned-up

islands are likely to be higher than the EPA draft dose limits for TRU
elements in soil for a number of years, one could now argue that Enewetak
cleanup was not adequate. This is one of the problems avoided by use of a

conservative application of basic standards for both fission products and
TRU contamination.
Enewetak planning experience would seem to support the idea that as much
advice and as many recommendations on soil cleanup as can be agreed upon

should be issued as Federal criteria. However, such guidance must not close
off the possibility for consideration of a range of cleanup options wherein
dose to the public is only one of several considerations.
One final point, compared to the task group's recommendations, EPA's draft

criteria commit that agency to very little in terms of agreements on
acceptable methods for dealing with the practical problems incurred in
planning and conduct of soil cleanup, many of which are ameniable to generic

guidelines. The possibilities for such guidelines can be derived from the
published records of Enewetak cleanup.

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