DRAFT Jul 71 34 RADIATION The NV and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) represergatives participate with personnel of the Air Force Pacific Cratering Experiment (PACE) program in a preliminary site selection visit to Enewetak. They identify Runit Islagd as a significant and potentially serious rad-hazard area after finding there the high¢@st measurements of gamma, plutonium, and scrap metal of all locations surveyed. 22 Jul 71 ADMINISTRATION Maj. Gen. E. B. Giller, assistant general managerfor military Application of the AEC, directs Robert E. Miller, NV manager, not to use weapon program funds for. Bikini and Enewetak radiological surveys and cleanup activities.” FY 1972 - FY 1982 ADMINISTRATION The Pacific Area Support Office (PASO) reports that durin this decade its activities in the Marshall Islands included ship support; providing DDE representation on sensitive missions; administration of the University of Hawaii corftract; and general and logistical support for the biomedical and environmental programs.” 25 Jan 72 MEDICAL In response to ejection from the T.T. of a Japanese medical team which he had invited to the Marshall Islands, Micronesian Representative Atajf Balos speaks out in the Congress of Micronesia charging that the U.S. knowingly exposed the natives of Rongelap and Utirik to the 1954 fallout so the U.S. could [develop medical capabilities to treat people who might be exposed to radiation dbring a war. He alleges that the Marshallese were chosen because they are remofe brown-skinned natives and that they have been receiving questionable medical freatment, aimed more at collecting medical data than at restoring the health of the people. He introducesa bill calling for the establishment of a special congressiqnal committee to look into the plight of these people.” Mar 1972 CONTRACTOR MEDICAL Accusing the BNL medical team of deception and of using them as guinea pies, the Rongelapese boycott the BNL medical services, according P an investigation y Dr. Henry Kohn. Thus, the medical survey team led by Conard unable to carry out its annual examination of the Marshallese. 16 Mar 72 RADIATION RELOCATION Tommy McCraw, Martin Biles, Roger Ray, and represergatives from the Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) meet with Ambassador Franklin Williams, the President’s representative for Micronesian status negotiations, and hs staff to discuss the rehabilitation of Enewetak Atoll. Williams states that he would]like to announce at the 2 April session of the Micronesian status negotiations that Fnewetak Atoll is being returned toits former residents. The ambassadoris worried alout confrontation with the Enewetak people. AEC representatives discuss the differe§ces between the