DRAFT 42 the people take this money." The AEC has also agreed to explaif radiation to the people of Bikini and Enewetak before they are returned to their islands.” Apr 74 ADMINISTRATION CONTRACTOR MEDICAL PLUTONIUM RADIATION Roger Ray, assistant manager of NV in charge of the Enewetak radiological survey, and Walter Nervik of LLL, technical director of the surfey, travel to the Marshall Islands to explain the technical information contained in the recently published Enewetak Radiological Survey (NVO-140) to representatives of the T.T. and the Enewetak people.”* Personnel from the LRE and BNL collect samples on Utigk, Rongelap and Bikini Atolls as part of the DOS portion of the LRE Pacific Radioeqology Program to determine the kinds and amounts of radionuclides distributed in [he foods, plants, animals, and soil of the central Pacific and supply them to the agBncies involved in calculating dose assessment for people living in the central Pacifiq’” Thefirst in vivo counting of cesium"” is taken for Bikini regdents. Cesium’”’ values are about the same as 1973. Strontium” levels are down to about 1970 levels. Plutonium’? and plutoniumlevels are higher by a factoq of five.” May 74 CLAIMS RELOCATION A group of Bikini people refuse to return to the atoll on ap May 1974 until they receive appropriate compensation for the past 25 years.7”' 14 May 74 RADIATION John W. McEnery, DNA deputy director of operations ad administration, disagrees with the AEC task group recommendations for cleanup arf rehabilitation of Enewetak. He regards the recommendations as "an unduly restricfive application of criteria that are largely arbitrary and probably inapplicable” and "rpt in accord with the wishes and probable needs of the Enewetak people." Mclhnery states, "The radiological and other safety conditions upon their return should apply to those local conditions, not necessarily those of the U.S. population with its different radiological conditions and its greater uncertainties of exposure.” 3 Jun 74 ADMINISTRATION James Liverman, the AEC assistant general manager fog biomedical and environmental research and safety programs, proposes to MahlonF. Gates, director, NV, that NV be assigned responsibility for programmatic coordination of the AEC’s activitiés in the Marshall Islands.?” | 19 Jun 74 PLUTONIUM RADIATION The AEC task group issues recommendations for cleanup ary rehabilitation of Enewetak Atoll. The radiation criteria guides for cleanup actions inglude: whole body and bone marrow-0.25 rem/yr, thyroid-0.75 rem/yr; bone-0.75 remfyr; gonads-4 rem