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2) Assure adequate baseline data exist to enable us 

 to monitor and detect future potential changes. 



3) Establish a monitoring program to provide constant 

 and complete data. 



We will need to know: 

 . What is there? 



. How much of which type of contaminant? 

 . Where are they? 



With this information, we will be able to predict how the 

 materials must cause problems. We will be able to identify 

 potentials for contaminants to mobilize and potential pathways 

 by which they might disperse. 



The effort will not be easy. The science is complex and 

 challenging. An effective effort will require multi- 

 disciplinary and inter-disciplinary communication, 

 collaboration, coordination, and commitment. 



Fortunately, existing agencies and organizations exist to 

 implement needed planning and action. I speak, for example, of 

 the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program (AMAP) . Called the 

 "Finnish Initiative," it has as its primary purpose the 

 evaluation of arctic environmental contauninants . Four of six 

 priority areas identified by AMAP are those of greatest concern 

 regarding potential contamination from the former Soviet Union: 

 radioactivity, heavy metals, organochlorines, and oil pollution. 



AMAP has the potential to be the international vehicle by 

 which arctic nations can coordinate and collaborate. But while 

 AMAP has the potential, the United States must assure the job 

 gets done. We must make available adequate resources so that 

 implementation of monitoring, assessment, and evaluation 

 receives appropriate priority. 



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