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Operational and Environmental Safety Enclosed is a list of action items developed a t the June 7-8, 1978 meeting of the Enewetak Advisory Group. Please let me know i f you have any questions. for accomplishment of the action items, thus we'll have t o be extra We did not establish dates Si ncer l y yours , Envi ronrnent, Heal t h , and Safety Research Program Victor Nosh ki n
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MEETING OF ENEWETAK ADVISORY GROUP Lawrence 1 i vermore 1abora tory Hal Hollister - DOES The objectives of the meeting were: 1 . Receive progress reports from DOE and L LL staff on Enewetak 2. Obtain from Hal Hollister clarification of the role of the Advisory Group and identification of specific issues and questions As a result of presentations by DOE and L LL staff the following action items were identified. 1 . Requests f o r information and reports by the Advisory Group will be addressed t o Hal Hollister. 2. The Advisory Group requested the following: Report on current status of analysis of Bikini urine samples f o r each sample period: April 1 9 7 7 , OctoberNovember 1977,and April 1978. What is identity of control b. Report on calibration of IMP (in addition - Church agreed t o send available information t o the Advisory Group.) c . Itemized inventory ofall projects conducted by doe i n the Marshall Islands with brief abstracts and levels of
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3. What i s DNA concern with respect t o "action levels " for 4. The Advisory Group recommends establishment o f data banks by LLL,BNL,NVO, DOES, and DBER, either separately or jointly. The objective is to facilitate access by all the participants i n the Marshall islands program toall the Marshall Islands program data. Action - LLL,BNL,NVO,DOES, and DBER 5. Assessment of the Enewetak survey and resettlement program 6 . Assessment of the 13-atoll survey program Action - Advisory Group ( A revised plan is being sent Advisory Group members by Tommy McCraw. Comments a r e due by July 1 2 t o W.J. Bair who will prepare response t o Hal Hollister by July Revision of dose assessment report taking into account revised concentration ratios of plutonium in foodstuffs, revised estimates of diets, ingrowth of241Am,reclassification of 241Am as class W compound and revised GI tract absorption factors recommended by the Advisory Group. These a r e the revised ICRP values: 5 x 10-4 for transplutonium elements ,1x 10-4 for soluble plutoniurr, and1xfor insoluble plutonium. 8 . Distribution t o Advisory Group o f copies o f viewgraphs used a t May 2 meeting o f DOES and DNA. Action - W.J. Bair 9. Distribution o f c3pies of weekly DOE / ERS P status reports t o Bair, Templeton, Gilbert, Richmond, Auxier, Healy, McClellan, 10. Assessment of costs / benefits of removing or not removing buried radioactive contaminated material on causeway between Aoman and B iji re. Action - DOES 11. Air monitoring data from DNA for Advisory Group information. 12. Soil volume data t o Advisory Group based on 160 pCi / gat 13. Copies o f McCraw memo re.EPA position on ocean dumping, copies o f Jim Liverman letter to Johnson o n ocean dumping ind copies toDNA - EPA - ERDA meeting minutes on ocean dumping t o
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14. BNL whole body counting data to Advisory Group. 15. Letter to Advisory Group r e accommodations i n Hawaii and other 16. Workshop for Marshall Island program participants during 17. Copies of NV-140 t o Thompson, Bair, Healy, Richmond, McClellan. 18. Recommendations for specific research t o be undertaken by DBER and DOE. started in FY-79. Please send recommendations t o Bair. Consider what information will be needed f o r refinement of dose assessment-- particularly for the after - c l eanup environment. ) Action - Advisory Group COPY HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY BAIR (Suggestions are needed soon i f work isto be The Advisory Group expressed the following concerns and urged that they be considered by DOE. 1 . There does not appear t o be adequate interaction among the several groups of sci ent is its working on the Marshall Islands program. There should be a scientific director integrating and assessing the entire Pacific effort. 3.Should the issue of ocean burial of contaminated soils be reopened Role of Advisory Group Hal Hollister asked the Advisory Group t o expand its scope t o include t h e whole Marshall Islands program. The Advisory Group agreed. A review ofthe 13-Atoll survey plan initiates the expanded scope. Hal Hollister also solicited advice ona technical coordinator/manager/director of Pacific