seedlings. Eight Bikini men returned to the Atoll to assist in the initial stages of the resettlement program and in December of 1969 an additional crew of 23 workers arrived from Kili. Families followed shortly thereafter. Construction of 40 houses along the lagoon road was started. The resettlement program as planned called for an additional 38 houses,,school, church, store, and dispensary before the 1977 target completion date. Also during this period, (1969), the Enewetak people petitioned the United - States for assistance to return to Enewetak Atoll. Discussions and meetings were held with government officals during the next three years and in April 1972 the Marshall? Island District Administrator was informed by High Commissioner Edward £. Johnston and Ambassador F. Haydn Wilt fams that Enewetak Atoll would be returned to its former inhabitants. As a result, in Sept. 1972 it was decided to conduct a comprehensive radiological survey of Enewetak Atoll to gain a sufficient understanding of the total radiological environment and assess whether al] or any part of tne Atoll] could be safely reinhabited and if so, under what constraints. The radiological survey and description of Enewetax and the dose assessment were published in 1973,6 Data from the report was useful to describe the radiological conditions at the atoll for one point in time. One of the principal findings was the identification for tne first time of the significance of the terrestrial food chain in contributing a potential dose to a returning population. The terrestrial pathway was predicted to contribute the major share of the potential dose for most living patterns but the survey results also showed that, although small, the dose from transuranic radionuclides was highest in the marine food pathway. AS a result of the assessment work at Enewetak, it was apparent that more data were required on radionuclide concentrations in subsistence crops, residence time of radionuclides in the atoll] ecosystem and the controlling