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?hls”will confirm recent telephone conversatlortsseeking your - assistance in the review of the cleanup criteria for Enewetak that AEC/C!lDAwas responsible for preparing. The key element In plans for the ongoing Enewetak Atoll project is recormnendatfons for cleanup and rehabilitation criteria developed by an MC Task Group in June 1974, and decisions by Defense Ruclear on hinit Island. Several factors opt for a final review of these mcomnendations and decisions; namely, EPA hos in draft for final review, “Guidance on Dose Limits for the TrcnsuraniurnElements in d~cated his professional staftihave voiced objections to the di~;as~l plan and believe that “soil cleanup” of the northern Islafidsaccording to MC guidance is unsupportable, unsound, a number of scientists at th~ time of the Livcmorc review of all c~..,~jt;n~ntto t:fleCICaIIUp of Encwctak Atoll and to a technique “of disposal that has changed with time and will shortly begin to nrrdERDA has connitmcnts to proficlccertification of Enewetak cleanup and long term radiological followup of the Atoll when It Is resettled. You are invited to participate in a hiw of: ~. AEC reco~i]mendationsfor cleonup and rehabilitation of Enewctak ,.. 1. Atoll and specifically the criteria for plutonium-239 in $otl, and” 9he .Environmental and health implications and long term monitoring rcqulremcnts for crater disposal of contaminated debris and soil
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A copy of the AEC Task Group report is enclosed along with additional background material. You will be informed of . arrangements for a review session, which fs expected to be held next week at a location as ye~ undetermined. If there are any questions, please contact Bruce Wachholz on 353-4365 for Environment and Safety
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Iudentical Letters Sent To: / Cnvtronmental Research Program Pacific Northwest Laboratory trector, Inhalation Toxicology Education and Research lbuquerque, New Mexico 87115 os Alamos Scientific Laboratory os Alamos, New Mexico 87545 Director, Health and Safety Laboratory . pew York, Rcw York 10014 pacific Northwest Laboratory
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Unlvcrsity of California Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Department of Environmcntol Medicin~ New York University College of Medicine New York, New York 10016