Ms. Claudia Nichols
1338A Wili Wili Circle

ASO LS

Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786

Dear Ms. Nichols:
The information you requested in your letter of 21 January 1980 is
provided below:
Medical Records - The individual medical record should contain

DD Form 1141 or an equivalent record which shows information on radiation
dose received as a result of radiation exposures during duty related
assignments.

For personnel assigned to Enewetak, dosimeter and bioassay

values for the period May 1977 thru October 1979 have been reportdéd to
the individual's new duty station for inclusion in the medical record.

Values for subsequent periods will be reported when received from the
laboratory.

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If the appropriate form is not in the individual nedical

record, the individual should contact the Commander, Field Command, Defense
Nuclear Agency (FCZ), Kirtland AFB, New Mexico 87115 where centralized
permanent records for doses received during the Enewetak operations are

maintained,

In the case of Air Force personnel, a centralized repository

of these type records is also maintained by the Occupational and Environmental
Health Laboratory.

Whole Body Count - If an individual considers the need for a
whole bedy count essential, that individual should contact his local

medical facility,

Generally, the equipment to perform a whole body count

is centralized at one of the larger Service medical facilities, hence the
local medical facility could make arrangements for the individual to have
a whole body count.

However, it should be noted that the equipment used for

this purpose will only measure internal gamma radiation.
DRAFT

LGEC 1/31/80

Consequently,

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