PAGE 2 RUNMFGA@Q@41 UNCLAS ~ FOR BIKINI WITH THOSE USED FOR ENEWETAK. | REPLIED THAT IN BOTH CASES THE SAME INTERNATIONALLY ACCEPTED GUIDELINES HAD BEEN USED. 5. MLSC LAWYER ALLEN ASKED WHETHER ANY STATES OF THE UNION HAVE ADOPTED MORE CONSERVATIVE STANDARDS THAN THOSE WE HAVE USED. | REPLIED THAT | AM UNAWARE OF ANY MORE CONSERVATIVE STANDARDS, . APPLICABLE TO THIS SITUATION, WHICH HAVE BEEN ADOPTED BY ANY STATE. | THEN EXPLAINED THE “LONEST PRACTICABLE” CONCEPT AND ITS APPLICATION TO BIKINI IN SUCH MATTERS AS CLEAN AGGREGATE, CRUSHED CORAL, ETS. 6. THERE ENSUED A SRIEF EXCHANGE WITH THE DISTAD REGARDING ECONOMIC SUBSIDY OF RESETTLED BIKINIANS. 9. THE KILI SCRIBE, BOTH IMPASSIONED AND ARTICULATE, ANDO IN OUR IMPRESSION A MAN WITH A SUBSTANTIAL FOLLOWING, THEN SPOKE. HE WAS APPALLED, HE SAID, THAT WE WOULD PRESENT UNCERTAINTIES ANO EXPECT THE PEOPLE OF BIKINI TC MAKE THESE SERIOUS CHOICES FOR THEMSELVES. “IF BIKINI IS SAFE, THEN LET A FEW IMPORTANT AMERICAN FAMILIES COVE AND LIVE AT BIKINI FOR 5 YEARS. {| WILL GIVE THEM MY LANO.” TO THIS DISTAD DEBRUM REPLIED THAT NEITHER HE NOR THE US AGENCIES WERE TRYING TO FORCE PEOPLE TO RETURN, BUT RATHER WERE COMMITTED TO RESPONDING TO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN HELPING THEM WORK TOWARD A SAFE RETURN IF THAT 1S THEIR CHOICE.