TERRESTRIAL PROGRAM
MININUM OPTION

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. The Terrestrial Program involves going onto the ialands without a
backhoe and sampling the available terrestrial food products, surface
soil, and existing water cisterns and akimning wells.

Transportation

of personnel to the islands will be by helicopter when the whaler
Cannot be used.

On larger islands, a jeep will be necessary to

relocate gear, water barred? and personnel.

Transporting the jeep

from ship to island and from tsland te island will have to be accor
Plishad using the helicopter.

On the average,

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35 surface soil samples and SO vegetation samples

will be collected at each atoll,

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requiring analysis for

137

Cs,

90

Sr,

and the transuranice of approximately 1,100 samples.
The assumption that there will be three well sites or cisterns on
the innabited atolls will require the analysis of an additional 21
samples to determine the radionuclide concentrations in water.

A total of seven personnel will be required to support this progran,.

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