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Department of Energy Mr. Theodore Mi tchell Micronesian Legal Services The Department of Energy i s pleased to respond t o your letter of July 23, 1979, i n which you requested, pursuant t o the Freedom of Information Act, several items: 1. The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory preliminary working draft of the radiation dose assessment for resettlement of Enewetak Atoll which was the subject o f a meeting held on June 21, 1979. Per our telephone conversation of August 1 , 1979, you a reed that a ) access t o this document was no longer necessary, and b 9 you would send a note t o the Department withdrawing this request. held on June 21, 1979. transcript, minutes o r record of the meeting, nor do we anticipate 2. A copy of the transcript, minutes, or record of the meeting While individual participants may have taken personal notes as they saw f i t , the Department has received no receipt of such. I 3. A copy of written comnents upon the draft which was the subject of the June 21, 1979, meeting. To my knowledge no written, comments upon the draft were presented t o the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory staff, to other attendees o r to the Department of Energy. I t should be noted that the attendees had read the d r a f t and met with Lawrence Livermore Laboratory staff pmbers t o discuss the document. Written comments and reports were neither requested nor
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YK. Theodore Mi tchell - 2 - August 6, 1979 4. The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory preliminary draft report of the radiation dose assessment for resettlement of Enewetak Atoll dated on or about July 23, 1979. understanding, and recognizing that release o f this document, albeit i n draft form, is i n the public interest, the Department provided multiple copies o f the report t o your staff on August 2 , 1979. Pursuant to our agreement and 5. Records showing the radiological status o f each of the islands a t Enewetak Atoll. To the extent that this information i s available, it was provided t o you i n the appendices accompanying the Survey of Enewetak Atoll conducted i n February through April 1979. Please see the response t o (5) above. In summary, (1) has been withdrawn, ( 2 ) and (3) do not exist, and (4), (.5), and (6) have already been provided t o you and t o others i n the public interest. Also, because of the public interest, page charges for the costs of duplicating the report and the voluminous appendices are being waived. We trust that this reply has been responsive t o your request. Similar information was sent t o your consultants ' 6. Records and materials showing results of the Fission Products Office of Environment