Enclosure Wo. 2 Status report on reoccupation of Bikini Atoll by native populations. (Summarized from June 21, 1971 msg from District Administrator, Trust Territories) (1) 40 dwellings are under construction in Bikini Island, using aggregate from Peter-Oboe, sand from Bikini Island, other materials from old buildings on Bikini Island. (2) 62 Marshallese are now living on Bikini Atoll, 24 on Bikini Island and (3) Fifty Thousand coconite, 200 pandanus and some breadfruit have been planted, and plans call for many more of all of these plus other edible plants. Arrowroot from pre-test period is present in good quantity and will be part of the food supply when the people return. (4) Drinking water is used on Bikini from the roof tops and from concrete cisterns built by H&N at close of cleanup program, 38 on Eneu. DOE ARCHIVES 5002569