The GEIDA proposes starting an airline to Christmas Island with weekly service from Honolulu. ‘There are two air strips in very good condition on the island, but airport facilities need to be brought into better condition, and a refueling capa- bility needs to be established. A hotel is to be built in the midst of the old Main Camp for Sports fishermen. TRW is to construct a satellite tracking station on the island for the Japanese, who plan to launch satellites soon (why, I either did not find out or do not remember). Land for this use and support labor will be another source of income. With all this, the island is much changed from what we remember from 1962. The villages, which were then constructed out of native materials, have been rebuilt using western materials, and - as indicated above - a third, new village now exists. Roads are in good shape, except that the Scaevola has not been trimmed back from the sides of the road and is growing out over it. The brine shrimp project has had a new building built, "Artemia House," at the intersection of the main road (A-1) with the SPAL road (the one over to Poland). Buildings, vehicles, and supplies left by the two military establishments are in pitiful condition. We were told that when the maintenance contract expired, the local people cannibalized the buildings for such things as roof sheeting, not taking all the sheets from one building before moving to the next, but taking a sheet here and a sheet there, letting in the weather to destroy whatever contents there were in them. there on back roads. Vehicles sit abandoned and rusted here and The flooring from the British Port Camp was taken up to make boxes out of. Children vandalized spare parts left in tropical wrappings. A stone chapel at Port Camp, a beautiful building in a beautiful setting, was broken up for supplies to build a new "maniaba" (a Gilbertese meeting place that looks like a roof on pillars over a concrete slab), which however is beautiful in its own right. We three spent most of our time actually taking samples for the radiological survey, getting vegetation, fish, crabs, and langusta to take back frozen to the Seattle laboratory for analysis. Direct gamma measurements made with a survey meter showed, as expected, nothing above background, and the background is much lower than here in New Mexico. After the analyses, a report on the subject will be prepared, and sent among other places to GEIDA. All in all, the island looks good and looks fertile. tion is profitable and well cared for. The planta- Although uninhabited