was the most heavily contaminated of the larger islands. The Task Group has been unable to determine a reliable, feasible 3 eae = = : . a o bring exposures within the acceptable criteria and permit resettlement of Enjebi on the same schedule as southern islands. The island can be re radi : a : ometirne in t hen adionuclide ingestion is To develop the acts, tes j i i removal may be made. 8 with and without soil Construction and agriculture would be deferred until produce from . ( test plantings showed acceptably low levels of radioactivity. Test plantings without soil rernoval would have least adverse impact on the island environment. e 4. Concurrent with the Enjebi work, radioactivity levels should be measured in coconut and other food crops grown on Lujor (Pearl), Kirunu (Clara), Bokoluo (Alice) and Bokombako (Belle). Produce from Runit (Yvonne) should be included after re ° lutonium contamination. BEST AV Al LABLE COPY Pl All radioactive scrap metal and contaminated debris now or later ( ~ UConjefe removed. be identified should This includes three locations on ¢ Aomon (Sally) and one on Medren (Elmer) where buried contaminated debris should be exhumed and removed. -Runit (Yvonne), quarantined by the USAF in 1972, should remain u arantined until plutonium contamination on that island has been cleaned U up. An authority responsible for enforcement of the~ quarantine should be identified and in residence in the atoll if people return to the atoll before cleanup is completed. e presented at this time. Anaccurate picture o contamination should develop as the decontamination proceeds. The area observed to have small pieces of plutonium and the can highest soil concentrations is about 30% of theisland. A background for plans for the recovery of Pu will require: a. Assembly of a team of experts to interpret field radiation and radioactivity measurements, advise on cleanup actions and provide necessary health physics support. A Public Health Service group, now part of EPA, provided radiological assistance for cleanup of Bikini Atoll. Similar support should be sought from EPA for Enewetak. i . . * Decontamination of Runit (Yvonne) is seen as an iterative amounts to a search for and removal of process. This “the highek platonium levels in soil. eet