William J. Stanley, Director/PASO -2- of travel and subsistence costs would be met. JI advised Dr. Pratt of this by letter dated June 6, 1979. This was documented in my June 4, 1979, Trip Report to you with a copy to Dr. Pratt and my September 18 Trip Report, copy to Dr. Pratt. In addition, in a subsequent telephone conversation with Dr. Pratt I advised him of these decisions and he acknowledged them with no particular comment. He was also told of this in my office in September 1979 although I made no mention of reimbursing the patients. This was something I meant to discusswith Dr. Pratt. I should have, but forgot to do s0.. We did take immediate action when Dr. Pratt notified the DOE Coordinator on Kwajalein of the problem, but unfortunatefy.. the Marshalls Government did not give him dur message promptly and the funds were sent by the bank to Guam ins#had of Majuro. In spite of this, the two people were well taken care of on Majuro and did receive expense money. 2. On page 4, Dr. ‘Pratt finds fault that PASO sent his message to the Chief Secretary for transmittal and that PASO sent $2,000 instead of the $1,000 requested. ANSWER: It is routine to send a message to someone who has no permanent address in Majuro and who is U.S. Government affiliated, to the Office of Chief Secretary. I made the decision to send R. Pratt $2,000 and since the charges come to over $1,600 the decision needs no further comment. 3. On page 6, Dr. Pratt references a message I sent to Enewetak stating that the Utirik person who wanted to be examined would be paid $10.00 per day, and implies this caused problems because other people were paid $27.00 per day. ANSWER: The message says nothing about $10.00 per day, rather"... His transportation from Enewetak to Ebeye and return plus normal expenses will be paid by BNL .. .". 4. On page 13, Dr. Pratt notes among other things that I failed to provide for meetings. ANSWER: Dr. Pratt wanted a town meeting in Majuro with Rongelap, Utirik, and Bikini people some two and a half weeks after I was to leave Majuro. I did have his mission and schedule announced over the radio as he requested. Experience has taught me that meetings of this nature should be announced one day or two ahead of time if reasonable attendance is to be expected. Because of this and because the BNL schedule might have been slightly altered for some reason, I decided not to make an announcement. Rather, I told. Peter Heotis of BNL on Kwajalein of this and suggested that since-he and Bill Scott would be going to Majuro a couple of days in advance of the medical team's arrival, that they could better make timely arrangements for the meeting. To do this would take about 15 minutes of i } ~~ ar a . wi Cut am one person's time. When I explained this to Dr. Pratt on his return, he told me that Scott and Heotis had been too busy to do this.