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For each fixed $m\ge 0$ and $T\ge m$, remove the first $m$ weight factors but retain the same walk law:This quantity is measurable with respect to ${\mathcal{G}}_{m+1}=\sigma (h(j,x):j\ge m+1,x\in {\mathbb{Z}}^d)$, since the averaging over all walk positions is deterministic and involves no earlier environment variables. The bounds on each deleted factor give, pointwise for every environment,Both constants are finite and strictly positive. Taking lower limits gives the exact identity of eventsThere is no exceptional-set issue in this comparison. Choose the version of $\zeta$ to equal ${\mathrm{liminf}}_T{Z}_T$ when this is finite and to equal $1$ otherwise; it agrees with the almost-sure martingale limit, and its zero event is precisely the left-hand event above. Since the identity holds for every $m$, $\{\zeta =0\}$ belongs to the printed tail sigma-algebra ${\bigcap }_{n\ge 1}{\mathcal{G}}_n$. This proves the tail event for a vanishing positive path-weight limit without pretending that the whole value of $\zeta$ is tail-measurable.

The independent time layers of the environment are independent random vectors, so the Kolmogorov zero-one law applies to their tail sigma-algebra. It yields $\mathbb{P}(\zeta =0)\in \{0,1\}$. Under the small-noise condition from part (b), $\mathbb{E}\zeta =1$ and $\zeta \ge 0$, so that probability cannot be $1$. HenceThe tail-event argument itself works for every $0<\epsilon <1$; the deduction of positivity here uses the mean-one conclusion supplied by part (b).