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responsibilities that it has assumed in conjunction with the 
requirements of the LDC, approved a “Research and Environmental 
Surveillance Program Related to Sea Disposal of Radioactive 
ee 
Wastes." This program was established as the result of a 
meeting of an NEA Group of Experts at which the participants 
"recommended that the next review of the [Northeast Atlantic] 
site (scheduled for 1984) should make use of more site-specific 
information, taking account of the particular features of the 
North Atlantic basin, and be less dependent on the maximizing 
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assumptions of the generic model." | As described in its 
introduction, one of the two principal focuses of the environ- 
mental surveillance program is: 
- .- » Monitoring for the purpose of radiological 
surveillance with the objective, in the long term, 
to assess whether the initial assumptions as to the 
safety of the site are correct, and to provide 
realistic radionuclide concentration data to deter- 
Mine if these may be attributable to the dumped 
waste. 73 / 
The IAEA guidelines under the LDC, the definition of monitor- 
ing that came out of the IAEA Jamaica Advisory Group meeting, and 
the NEA Environmental Surveillance Program all attest to the 
importance of site-specific monitoring to test preliminary assump- 
tions and to provide realistic data. While the geographical focus 
of those findings and recommendations is the Northeast Atlantic 
gay Nuclear Energy Agency, Organization for Economic Cooperation 
and Development, Research And Environmental Surveillance Programme 
Related to Sea Disposal of Radioactive Waste (1981) [hereinafter 
cited as the NEA Surveillance Program]. 
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