e5.
It should be made clear that the decision to plant the cocomt
treee on the six northeastern islands was based solely upon the additional
potentialradiation exposure to people assumed to reside on Enewetak,
Japtan, and Medren Islands.
More specifically, presumably the decision
did not consider the acceptability or unacceprability of copra from these
coconut trees at processing plants or on the world market.
be clarified.
This should
The following sentence, inserted after the first sentence
of the last paragraph on the bottom of page 2, would be appropriate:
“The
Preliminary Reassessment Report does not address the issue of the acceptability on the world market of copra obtained from coconut trees planted
on those six islands, however, and the implication of this issue,
particularly in view of the experience of copra from trees planted on
Bikini Island, has yet to be resolved."
The decision to plant the trees, and
the bases for it, are recognized to be Interior's responsibility, hovever.
Additional Comments
Page 1, Paragraph 2
We have no problem with the two sentences beginning "This preliminary..."
being omitted.. If they sre retained, however, "northern" should be replaced
by "northeastern," and the words “and all of the islands in the northwest"
should be inserted before the word "still."
Furthermore, after “exposure
estimates" please insert the words "for the lifestyles considered, however."
Page 2, Paragraph 3
should be
The terms "all of the radiation exposure estimates..."
conditions
clarified that the statement pertains only to the living
4{dentified in the preceding paragraph.
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