The following guidance is provided for this evaluation:

a. Islands with soil levels in the above range may be divided

into two categories, those of sufficient size for construction
of permanent houses, and those that are not.

b. Removal

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c. The smaller islands may be considered of less concern, Their
_long-term outlook is uncertain since they are sometimes increasing in size and sometimes erroding away. Small islanda
may be washed over by storm waves and are not a safe site
for permanent housing. From that viewpoint, they are in
the same category as unnamed sandbars along the reef where
other islands may have disappeared or be forming.
‘ad. The amount of effort that properly may be given to soil re<
moval in this rane increases as the soil concentration
increases.

e. Once an action is taken, the objective is to achieve a substantial reduction in plutonium soil concentrations, and

further, to reduce concentrations to the lowest practicable level,
not to reduce them to some prescribed numerical value.

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The standards issued by FRC are recommend as the basic guidance
for evaluation of exposures to individuals to Enewetak.

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| 1. The fullI amount of the
numeric
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case radioactivity from weapon gle man-made source,inthis
s tests. This is applied so
that the Enewetak people will
not be denied benefits of future

2. Environmental followup survey
s and studies of radioactivity
levels in people
are performed such that the
full range of

radiation exposures of individual
vidual members

population will be know

3. Exposures of the Enewetak

practicable level.

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