Major General Frank A. Camm, USA

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The AEC is concerned that DNA (or DOD) will prepare and float a draft
EBYS without adequate information on present radiological conditions.
Sueh action would tend to establish the radiological cleanup and

habitation criteria used by DNA as a position of the U.S. Government.

Assuming that these criteria would not coincide with those of the AEC,
a very difficult problem would be created. At best, this would pose a
difficult and needless problem for the AEC to explain.

Much more

likely, however, it would jeopardize AEC intereste vis-a-vis nedical
follow-up of the Rongelapese, Bikini cleanup standards, and a variety
of eituations involving plutonium and other contamination. Publication

of premature and 11l-considered Eniwetok criteria could well jeopardise
the Eniwetok rehabilitation effort itself.
Mr. Palmiter of EPA offered his own opinion at a meeting on April 26

that the EPA would view any such draft EIS, lacking sufficient
radiological data (specifically plutonium data) as unacceptable. 1
feel the AEC should support EPA. If this should happen, the U.8.

Government would then ba in the position of needlessly discussing a

aplit decision in the public forum.

Recommendation: Undertake this EIS only when complete radiological
data from the AEC atudy are available and have been reviewed. The
rough draft then should be fully coordinated with AEC and such other
agencies as may be appropriate.

ENGINEERING SURVEY
Holmes and Narver completed an engineering survey on likely Eniwetok
cleanup actions. DNA provided aome tentative guidelines and assumptions.
Tha concern existe that once a report has been printed and diatributed

(auch as thie one has been), “assunmptions™ may become realities in the

winds of some readers.

Recommendation: That ali references to the Holmes and Narver report
place strong emphasis on the fact that the radiological assumptions
are for planning purposes only.

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