one day the island can be resettled.

There appear to be two

possible approaches:
a.

Soil removal followed by studies with test plantings to determine

whether exposure for Enjebi residents would be within acceptable
criteria.

b.

Conduct of studies using test plantings to determine when exposures
would be within acceptable criteria but no soil removed.

In either case, housing construction and planting of subsistence and
commercial crops would be deferred wtil research with test plantings
showed acceptably low levels of radioactivity.

The Task Group

recommends the second approach as one having minimal adverse impact

on the island environment.
The research program in 3 above should also include a

determination of radioactivity levels in,comieand other food crops
produced on PEARL, CLARA, ALICE, and BELLE.

YVONNE should also

be included after removal of plutonium contaminated soil.
All radioactive scrap metal and contaminated debris identified during
the Holmes and Narver Engineering Survey should be removed.

If

additional contaminated debris is discovered in the course of cleanup

and rehabilitation operations, it too should be removed.

Specifically

included in this recommendation are the three locations on SALLY and
one on ELMER where contaminated debris is known to be buried.

This

debris should be exhumed, and _xemoved.

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~ Slutonium contamination on that island,‘Jo-neducedto-acceptabte—teveis.

Should any Enewetak people return to the atoll before cleanup is

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