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THRU: General Manager This is in response to Mr. Gorman Smith's memorandum of September 21, For the past year, the AEC has been izvolved with the Departments of Defense and Interior in planning for the return of Enewetak Atoll to its original inhabitants. From October 1972 to February 1973, the ABC conducted an extensive radiological surrey of the atoll concurrent with a Department of Defense (DOD) engineering study. This study and our survey will provide a basis for planning the cleanup of the atoll. Further, the DOD and the Department of Interior (DOI) are jointly preparing a single Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the cleanup and rehabilitation of Enewetak. These activities are derived from a mutual agreement reached by representatives of the three agencies on September 7, 1572. it was agreed then that the AEC would fund for and conduct a pre-cleanup radiological survey and provide recommendations for accomplis'ning cleanup; that the DOD would conduct z pre-cleanup eng-?xeriag study, fund for and accomplish the cleanup; and that the DO1 would fund, plan for, and carry out rehabilitation. It was further agreed that the AEC, on a reimbursable basis, would provide radiological support to the DOD, as requested, during the cleanup operation. When cleanup is complete, the AEC will carry out a radiological and biolxical verification program to include periodic monitoring for an indefinite Our radiological survey is now the ptincipal AX activity and will provide the basis for the judgements and recommendations for cleanup and rehabilitation now being prepared for Commission approval. The Manager, Nevada Operations, with LLL's Radiochemistry Division Leader as his technical director , planned, organized, and carried out this survey. The reduction of data from nearly 4,500 samples of soil, water, fish, sea and land plants, air, animals, and birds is now nearly complete with the final report of the survey scheduled to be published November 1, 1973.
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The lifestyle of the Enmtak people wtll be dcuribmd in dmtail this lifestylr. Further,tb prapu8tlcm OF tha llfmutylm Seymour, University of Waehingtoa. TM8 group h8m bcacta ravfering tha adequacysnd dficlacy of the mrvq data and their work is nuw nsrrly eoaplrta. 'Iti8 mpected that r*cum!iedarioLUOf this growpwillbegawxxlly famnble aa to thm coeplet- of The Ditactor, Mviaion of Opamimml Safatp, bu femme3 a Task AEC staff (DMA, DBEE, IYWT, D%s). interagaaq staff (DOD, DOI, EPA), andadviwm (TTPI,BI4L). Otis uqeetad tbtthe recmd cc: Comr Anders - Hajar Gewral, USA Secy for l4lliw Applicathn