evaluated: (1) the site planned freshwater production facility and (2) a site adjacent to an aboveground diesel fuel storage tank. Within the proposed construction zone for the freshwater production facility (a.k.a desalination plant), total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) where either absent or at low levels. Characterization data for another potential construction site adjacent to an aboveground diesel, fuel storage tank southeast of the old diesel power plant revealed’ high concentrations of diesel fuel in the soil and groundwater beneath the site. Results of this investigation indicate that there are petroleum-contaminated soils on Kwajalein Island and bioremediation appears to be a viable environmental restoration technique. Further experimentation and field demonstration are required to determine the design and operating conditions that provide for optimum biodegradation and restoration of the petroleum-contaminated soils. 17 refs., 7 figs., 26 figs. Major Descriptors: *DIESEL FUELS -- BIODEGRADATION; *SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTS -~- POLLUTION CONTROL Descriptors: BIOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; EXPERIMENT PLANNING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GROUND WATER; HAZARDOUS MATERIALS; INFORMATION NEEDS; LEAKS; MARSHALL ISLANDS; MICROORGANISMS; MILITARY FACILITIES; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SOILS; STORAGE FACILITIES; VOLATILE MATTER; WATER TABLES Broader Terms: CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CONTROL; DECOMPOSITION; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; ISLANDS; MATERIALS; MATTER; MICRONESIA; OCEANIA; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PETROLEUM PRODUCTS; PLANNING; WATER Subject Categories: 540250* -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Site Resource & Use Studies -- (1990-) 540220 -- Environment, Terrestrial -- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport -- (1990-) 560300 10/5/339 03243773 -- Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology (Item 39 from file: 103) GRA-91-11922; EDB-92-006530 Title: Calcareous nannofossils and planktic foraminifers from Enewetak Atoll, Western Pacific Ocean: Geologic and geophysical investigations of Enewetak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Professional paper Author(s) /Editor(s): Bybell, L.M.; Poore, R.Z. Corporate Source: Geological Survey, Alexandria, VA (United States) (Code: 9514132) Publication Date: 1991 (28 p) Report Number(s): PB-91-239061/XAB USGS-PP--1513-C Note: Library of Congress catalog card no. 91-10890. Prepared in cooperation with Defense Nuclear Agency, Washington, DC. Document Type: Report Language: In English Journal Announcement: EDB9201 Availability: NTIS Distribution: Subfile: ERA (Report):9 (MF):6 ND-00 (Energy Research Abstracts). US DOE Project/NonDOE Project: NP GRA (NTIS NTS) ~ of the Pacific Enewetak Atoll Crater Exploration (PEACE) Program. The overall goal of the program was to characterize physical effects of large-scale nuclear blasts, which were conducted in the early 1950's, on the sediments of the atoll. In the report the authors document the occurrences of stratigraphically diagnostic planktic microfossils in samples from Enewetak (generally referred to as core) and outline the rationale for incorporating all available diagnostic planktic assemblages into a composite sequence that was used to date the Enewetak benthic zonation. Major Descriptors: *ENIWETOK -- GEOLOGIC SURVEYS; *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS -BLAST EFFECTS Descriptors: CARBONATE ROCKS; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSILS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; I003b84 Country of Origin: United States Country of Publication: United States Abstract: Boring of the carbonate sequence at the northern end of Enewetak Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, was conducted in 1985, as part