—~ Mr. Theodore R. Mitchell 3 October 29, 1974 with, or because costs for their maintenance are not provided, or because local people are not trained to properly use and maintain them. While I was very favorably impressed by the thinking on water supplies within the reports, I wonder if enough thought has gone into problems concerning their long term maintenance. (2) Social Services. While impressedagain by the thoroughness with which the desires of the local people have been taken into consideration, it is hard to comment on social services without knowing more about the breakdown of the population itself. None of the reports tell us much about the current educational and literacy status of the people, and about their goals for self and children -- other than to return to Enewetak. Though obviously their expectations for imported items _ -has gone up during their 28 years of exile, what about their Set Ne ee we ee oom desires of the --— eccupational desires, and especially the occupational younger people? One thing that bothered me about the reports is that while four room schools are proposed for both the driEnewetak and . driEnjebi, nothing is written about the type of education system proposed for these schools and the type of teachers to be recruited. Let me generalize this comment to all types of service personnel, since I was also concerned about the lack of attention paid, under agriculture and fishing, to extension personnel, let alone to the. relationship of the different types of service personnel to each other. Iam raising here the fundamental question as to what different categories cf people will be willing to do, occupationally, once they return and how best to facilitate their future economic and social _ independence and development, (3) Viable Land and Water Use Systems. The Master Plan was based on the assumption that all the islands in the atoll could be used for | subsistence.and cash crop agriculture -- with a total available acreage of approximately 1600. Asa result, however, of the AEC Task Force recommendations, this total has been cut to a maximum cf 722 useable acres for a current population of over 400 people. Bearing in mind the poor quality of the soil and the rapid rate of population increase, it seems to meabsolutely essential that the people Tetain access to oe Ujelang Atoll. Even then the available land area on a per capita basis is considerably less than that utilized by the people prior to their first relocation. The situation is worrisome and points up the need (a) to obtain the best possible seed for coconuts for both subsistence and cash crops purposes, with the search bearing in mind the major advances in productivity that have occurred on researchstations in the Ivory Coast and in the Phillipines. (b) to push mariculture hard while keeping the means of production strictly in local hands so as to spread employment. Equipment (outboards for example) should be