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resettlement of Enjebi on the same schedul2 as southern islands.

The island can be resettled sometime in the future when radionuciide ingestion is ao longer a problem. To develop the facts,
test plantings with and without soil removal may be made. Construction and agriculture would be deferred until produce from

test plantings showed acceptably low levels of radioactivity.

Test plantinzs without soil removal would have least adverse
impact on the island environment.
Concurrent with the Enjebi work, radioactivity levels should be
measured in coconut and other food crops grown on PEARL,
CLARA, ALICE, and BELLE,

Produce from YVONNE should

be included after removal of plutonium contamination.

All radioactive scrap metal and contaminated debris now or later
identified should be removed. This includes three locations on
SALLY and one on ELMER where buried contaminated debris
should be exhumed and removed.

YVONNE, quarantined by the USAF in 1972, should remain
quarantined until plutonium contamination on that island has been

cleaned 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.

7.

Only general recommendations for cleanup of Pu on YVONNE

can be presented at this time.

An accurate picture of this

contamination should develop as the decontamination proceeds,
The area observed to have small pieces of plutonium and the
highest soil concentrations is about 30% of the island. 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.

b.

Decontamination of YVONNEis seen as an iterative process.
This amounts to a search for and removal of the higher

plutonium levels in soil,

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