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RETURN OF ADDITIONAL PEQPLE TO LSVlt XN THE HOUSES ON i BIKINI ISLAND CANNOT BE DRAWN #‘ROM OUR REC&MENDATIONS PRESENTED AT TKE AUGUST A4EETXNC3Ok PROM ANY 1 DISCUSSIONS HELD WI’W THOSE ATTENDING. TO THE CON- I TMRY, OUR RECOMMENDATIONS STATE THAT EXISTING I HOUSES ALONG THE LAGOON ROAD MAY BE OCCUPIED WITHIN -. PRESCRIBE:D GUIDELINES. THE ONLY DISCUSSION OF A SIX-MONTH PERIOD IS RELATED TO OUR ESTIMATE OF TIME NEEDED TO ANALYZE S4MPLES COLLECTED IN JUNE AND EVALUATE INTERNAL EXPOSURES THROUGH THE FOOD CHAIN AND PROVlDE ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE ON LX)CALtY GROWN FOODS FOR USE BY THOSE IKVING ON ISXKINI ISLAND. THXS ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE WILL NOT HAVE RELEVANCE TO IJVING IN THE HOUSES BUT RELATES TO OUR CONCERN FOR RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS EXPECTED IN CERTAIN FOODS GROIFN ON BIKINI ISUND. P.ARA. THE QUESTION WAS A&RED DURING THE MEETING THAT IF HOUSES WERE NOT ALREADY BUILT ON BIKINI ISLAND, WOULD TKIS BE RECOMMENDED? MY ANSWER WAS THAT GIVEN A CHOICE, BUILDING THE FIRST HOUSES ON ENEU WAS PREFERABLE, BUT I CONTINUED AND SAID THAT SINCE HOUSES ARE ALREADY BUILT dN BLKJ.NI ISLAND, THEY .SHOULD BENUSED, IN OUR PRESENTATION OF EXTERNAL RADIATION DOSE ESTIMATES FOR THOSE UVING IN HOUSES ALRLADY CONSTRUCTED ON BIKINI ISLAND, WE SHOR’ED DOSE
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I , WITH RESE’ICCT TO XNTCRNAL RADIATXON DOSE, WE CAUTION&D THAT REBTRICTIONS WOULD BE NEEDED ON USE OF CEiTAIN LUCAL Y’OODS GROWN ON MKINX ISLAND .‘_ TO XNSURE: THAT THE: SUM OF EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL RADIATION DOSES WOULD NOT EXCEED THE EiTANDARDS. TMS IS SHOWN IN OUR ‘DRAFT REPORT. WHILE HOUSES ON EXEU ARE PREFERABLE, EXISTING HOUSES ON BIKINl ARE TO LIVE XN HOUSES ALREADY BUILT ON BIKINI ISLAND PROVIDED THE RADXATXON DOSE REDUCTION MEASURES WE HAVE RECONWENDED ARE FOLLOWED. WE AGREE THERE HAS BEEN MSINTERPRETATION OF THE MATERLAL AND DISCUSSIONS OF ‘THE AUGUST 12 MEETING. WE AGREE THAT NO USEFUL PURPOSE IS SERVED BY FURTHER DELAY OF PEOPLE GOING BAICK TO IJVE IN THE HOUSES ON BIKINI ISLAND. HOWEVER, ‘THE DECISIONS ON RECOA4MENDING i A DEtAY WAS MADE 13Y DOI AND ANNOUNCED BY THEIR PRESS RELEASE THAT WAS ISSUED ON AUGUST 23.