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secretaries. Roser anticipates "continuing management requiremenjs for a major DOE
mission area."
1982
ADMINISTRATION
CLAIMS
CONTRACTOR
MEDICAL
Antolok, Cathelina, et al. vs. BNL, etal. is filed in U.S. Dis#ict Court, Central
District, California, charging that contractors, acting as agents of thd
U.S. government,
Pacific
NL,
caused physical injury and death and breached fiduciary duty to protect the health
and well-being of the plaintiffs, who are Marshallese. Detendants indude LLNL,
Northwest
Laboratory,
Battelle Memorial
Institute,
and
Sandia
Laboratories. The plaintiffs seek damages for past and future
i
property damage, contamination of environment, suffering, and $4{billion in punitive
damages.*”*
|
The manager of NV proposes to consolidate all of the] Marshall Islands
programs in the DOE DPoffice.’
BNL issues Medical Status of Marshall
Fallout Radiation: January 1980 through December 1982. This repprt concludes that
there is no statistically significant difference between the survifal curves of the —
radioactively exposed and unexposed groups.*”
29 Jan 82
RADIATION
CONTRACTOR
LLNL issues "An Updated Radiological Dose Assessment
Bikini and Eneu
Islands at Bikini Atoll," which addresses potential dose assessmentfafter resettlement
at Bikini Atoli.2”
Feb 82
ADMINISTRATION
The NVstaff recommendsthat it be given additional authafity to implement
the NEPA because current procedures for environmental assessnfents and impact
statements slow down field action. The NV request would diminish the authority of
the office of environmental protection, safety, and energy preppredness (EP) at
headquarters on environmental assessments and impact statementg.*”
2 Mar 82
ADMINISTRATION
Kristine Morris drafts a memorandum for DOE Assistant]|Secretary of DP
Herman €. Roser’s signature that recommends transferring the [Marshall Islands
programs from EP to DP. She circulates the draft to Roger Ray afd Tom Cornwell
for comment. Cornwell suggests that Morris include more about the history of U.S.
government: acquisition of the Marshalls for nuclear testing and
about the Burton Bill and Safeguard "Cc."
23 Mar 82
ADMINISTRATION
geparate sections
Herman E. Roser urges the Secretary of the DOE to trangfer the Marshall
islands programs from EP to DP. Roser supports his request by rechiling that during
1977-1980 the DOE Enewetak Radiological Support Project "proyided
the critical
expertise” for the DNA $100 million cleanup in the Marshall Islands.J Roser adds that