ees Gea Pg, EE Es ndeee Ree Sten speSets eh oP BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. ACD | OC Upton, New York 11973 Medical Department (516) 345- 3577 April 13, 1979 REPOSITORY poe 7/ PASO Doe7/NV Mr. William J. Stanley, Director COLLECTION Pac¢fic Area Support Office BOX No. BAL Fol. 2b Ws J.-S. Department of Energy P. O. Box 29939 Honolulu, Hawaii 96820 Dear Bill, x 3h F@LOER _ y /G 2G Mnéd|At. pRogeAarn. I want to apologize for the delay in getting this logistic letter off to you concerning the May-June survey, however it seems that the ground rules for this examination are changing daily. I have been mak requent trips to Washington to speak to the Department of Energy and Department of Interior to try to obtain some commitment as to how we should handle the examination of the people of Bikini. As things stand now, we know that Representative Burton is in the process of writing a bill that will apparently pass through Congress rapidly to present enabling legislation for some unspecified agency to pick up the medical care of the Bikinians in much the same manner as the people of Rongelap and Utirik. To make the picture even more complex every other day I hear conflicting opinion about a ship load of Bikinians being transported from Kili to Majuro to be present on the island for whole body counting at the same time that the medical team will be there, i.e., May 14 - 20. If this should, in fact, occur it would change the logistic requirements entirely. I have brought this point home on several occasions to Walter Weyzen and to others in Washington and as I understand it, presently the projected transfer of the people of Kili to Majuro is being held in abeyance. As we discussed in Walter's office I agree with you and Roger that the concept of moving 100 people to a testing machine really is stretching the point. It would be much better to put a whole body counter on Kili for future studies. However, it does appear that we will be responsible for a physical examination of the 60 Bikinians that Tony Greenhouse discovered on Majuro in his last survey. Consequently, as of today, I have changed the composition of our survey group. Please see enclosure 1. I have added Don Paglia, M.D., who I believe you know and has been out before with Bob. He is an excellent hematologist and clinician and will be able to help us in Majuro and Ebeye. Since we will be doing a number of the standard examinations by the protocol, Bill Scott will also be accompanying us for the first half of the trip and he and Don Paglia will return from Kwajalein before we start the outer island survey. At the present time it appears that we will have ten people in the scientific party for the outer islands survey. This will include 3 women and 7 men. As we discussed in Washington, there is the possibility that we might pick up as many as 4 or