surface to minimize erosion, wet sieving, and other means to effect safe
personnel operations as well as efficient collection of contaminated
materials.
studies.
Tamura has provided leadership in many of the NAEG soils
Leavitt, EPA (EMSL-Las Vegas), in his report at San Diego, described the
soil surveys accomplished for the NAEG.
His slides demonstrated the
various soil types at NTS and the methods used to determine soil characteristics for classification.
His paper in this document includes a
summary of the dominant factors of the areas surveyed for NAEG, both in
narrative form and as a table.
Leavitt's results indicate that a large
portion of the land surveyed for NAEG is of a soil type that is potentially good winter range for cattle.
Reports from the Nevada Applied Ecology Group service and support contractors included presentations from Reynolds Electrical & Engineering
Co. (REECo) concerning on-NTS activities for NAEG during 1977.
Brady,
Rakow, and Rosenberry discussed logistics of the collection, preparation,
and shipment of NAEG soil, vegetation, and animal samples.
NAEG activities in the safety-shot intensive study sites at NTS and Tonopah Test
Range, as well as nuclear site study areas, are supported by REECo
personnel.
A glance at the report will give the reader only a glimpse
of the high quality, on-schedule, dependable assistance NAEG has had
from the REECo people assigned to our activities year after year of NTS
field investigations.
Wireman of REECo prepared a comprehensive summary of REECo participation
in NAEG studies, 1972 through 1977.
Included in this important report
is information related to NAEG methodology and sample/data status.
Of
special significance is a discussion of chronological sequence of the
execution of a typical NAEG intensive study at NTS.
(Editor's note:
Wireman not only assisted in developing many of the NAEG standard methods
for sampling, but in recent years was assigned as NAEG/REECo Coordinator
in the DOE-Las Vegas complex.)
REECo data processing support of the NAEG for 1977 was the subject of
Zellers', REECo, presentation.
Details, problems, and some solutions of
NAEG data documentation were included.
The complex environmental data
base of NAEG is a very workable system utilized by the NAEG investigators,
Management, and analysis personnel.
Versatility, ease of access, and early reporting of information are the
major assets of the Nevada Applied Ecology Information Center data base,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Pfuderer reported on the scope and
history of the NAEIC which produced the excellent bibliographic volumes
of the Environmental Aspects of the Transuranics.
Under the former
guidance of Oens, ORNL, and more recently, Pfuderer, the Ecological
Sciences Information Center of ORNL has developed and produced effective
information transfer on plutonium in the environment, as well as other
transuranics.
Many users other than NAEG investigators have benefited
from the documentation of information provided by the NAEIC.
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