DRAFT 16 presented within one year after the occurrence. As of this date, no flaims have been submitted. | The houses built by H&N, an AEC contractor, on Ejit Island in Majuro Atoll, are constructed so that the Rongelapese can remove them to their ofiginal homesites. The AEC accepts responsibility for continued medical exafninations of the Rongelap people as a routine precautionary measure. The AEC also assumes responsibility for periodic radiol 1 resurveys of Rongelap to determine when the inhabitants may return safely. The AEC will pay for constructing an island communication]system between Kili and Jaluit and for family housing units on Jaluit so that Bikiniang on Kili mayfish at the Jaluit lagoon."”’ 8 and 18 Dec 54 CONTRACTOR RADIATION AFL, NRDL, and AEC/DBM scientists collect samples andJfrecord radiation levels at Rongelap Atoll." 25-30 fan 55 CONTRACTOR RADIATION RELOCATION The NRDL and AFL make the most extensive survey and bd ical collecting trip to date for the AEC at Rongelap Atoll. The work reveals ungafe amounts of radioactivity in shellfish and crabs, important in the peoples’ diets.'P Feb 55 ADMINISTRATION RADIATION The AEC/DBMestablishes criteria and procedures deemed n ry to protect the health and welfare of the general populace from consequences fof weapontests at the Nevada test site. The criteria are: up to 30 roentgens] no evacuation indicated; 30-50 roentgens, evacuation only if 15 or more roentgen§ are saved; and 50 roentgens and higher, evacuation without regard to the amount the dose. The procedures are: make rough estimates of radiation doses before and &fter detonations and then take dose-rate readings with survey meters, which are heldfhree feet above round. ° The NRDL collects soil and biological samples in the Mars radiological study.’ Mar 55 ll Islands for a CONTRACTOR MEDICAL RADIATION Most of the Rongelap natives appear "in excellent general héalth", according to a medical recheck oy Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite of BNL, Lt. Cahdr. Samuel D. McPherson of Bethesda Naval Medical Hospital, and Dr. Charles L Punham, deputy director of the AEC/DBM.'™ A resurvey of flora and fauna of the Marshall Islands by JNRDL and AFL reveals "significant amounts of radioactive contamination" in the aninpls, food plants, water, and soil samples one year after their contamination by fallbut from Castle Bravo. The U.S. NRDLfinds the highest concentrations of internally in marine specimens taken from the northern Rongelap lagoo deposited activity Zirconium™-