-2"Costs", in this context, are measured primarily in terms of costs to the Enewetak people as constraints on their activities or as dollar costs for cleanup or remedial action, In these evaluations, it should be emphasized that dosages through various pathways are estimated on the basis of environmental data and considerations of expected living patterns and dietary habits. While "radiation standards" do not exist for environmental contamination levels in substances such as soil and foodstuffs, there is general agreement in terms of conservative models of these pathways and the relationships between a certain level in the environment and the likely dose to result from the pathwuy exposure, The area of plutonium in soils, however, is one for which there is no general agreement as to the quantitative relationship between levels in soils and dosages to be expected throughthe inhalation pathway, the pri- 35 mary one through which man can receive a significant dose from plutonium, er The ICRP recommends a maximum permissible average concentration cop) of 1 picocurie per cubic meter (pCi/m’*) of air for "insoluble" plutonium and 0,06 pCi/m 3 for "soluble" plutonium for unrestricted areas, While the plutoniumin the soil at Enewetak is thought to be typical of 4 cee wees ~[.- - 2 world-wide fallout, and therefore insoluble, we will use the 0, 06 pCi/m® amens, value for the sake of conservatism, ome 7 f oe STa vs eee . feIceman germoink ween ey peseo» aes tay)F ro . CO he