  An analysis of the world's neutrino oscillation data, including sterile
neutrinos, (M. Sorel, C. M. Conrad, and M. H. Shaevitz, Phys. Rev. D 70,
073004) found a peak in the allowed region at a mass-squared difference $\Delta
m^2 \cong 0.9$ eV$^2$. We trace its origin to harmonic oscillations in the
electron survival probability $P_{ee}$ as a function of L/E, the ratio of
baseline to neutrino energy, as measured in the near detector of the Bugey
experiment. We find a second occurrence for $\Delta m^2 \cong 1.9$ eV$^2$. We
point out that the phenomenon of harmonic oscillations of $P_{ee}$ as a
function of L/E, as seen in the Bugey experiment, can be used to measure the
mass-squared difference associated with a sterile neutrino in the range from a
fraction of an eV$^2$ to several eV$^2$ (compatible with that indicated by the
LSND experiment), as well as measure the amount of electron-sterile neutrino
mixing. We observe that the experiment is independent, to lowest order, of the
size of the reactor and suggest the possibility of a small reactor with a
detector sitting at a very short baseline.

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