DRAFT 46 6 Feb 75 ADMINISTRATION With the completion of the 1974 Enewetak radiologica] survey and the beginning of the clean-up phase, Gen. Ernest Graves, the ERDA director of military application, recommends: | believe it now appropriate and timely to relieve DMA of itg Enewetak responsibilities. The Assistant Administrator for Environment ind Safety concurs in this view and will assume the lead within the EHDA for a Enewetak matters.”” | 19 Feb 75 ADMINISTRATION L. Joe Deal, assistant director for health protection, ERD4/DOS, does not concur with Graves’s proposal for a transfer of programmatic }responsibility for Enewetak by sayin As long as DOD is active in the cleanup program, we beleve DMA should continue its role. Until the ceanup is completed| we don’t know what problems may arise that would need the assistance of the DOD weaponstest laboratories and contractors.” 7 Mar 75 ADMINISTRATION With input from the ERDA, the DOI requests that the D D fund logistical support for an additional radiological survey of Bikini Atoll.” Apr 75 CONTRACTOR PLUTONIUM RADIATION LRE and BNL staff collect samples from Kwajalein, Bikini, ang Wotho Atolls for the DOSportion of the Pacific Radiological Program.” Urine bioassays from Bikini show levels of plutonium”? [and plutonium” higher than 1971 by a factor of ten. According to later informatior§ these results are suspect because the samples may have been contaminated. (See Dec 76). 9 Apr 75 CONTRACTOR MEDICAL Nelson Anjain, magistrate of Rongelap village, signs a lett to Conard that States that the people of Rongelap do not want to see him again use he treats them as research subjects rather than as people. The lett adds that the longer want to Rongelapese want a doctor to live on the island permanently and be under American control. Subsequently, Anjain admits that a m rmber of “friends of Micronesia" wrote the tetter.™ May 75 RADIATION The EPA accepts the DNA’s "Environmental Impact Statengent on Cleanup, Rehabilitation, Resettlement of Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands (Agril 1975)." 7*