DRAFT 60 12 Oct 79 RADIATION RELOCATION Michael A. Bender and A. Bertrand Brill of National Cytoge etics, Inc. issue "Assessment of Radiation Health Effects of the Resettlement of Egewetak Atoll," a report prepared for MLSC. They conclude that their risk ents are in substantial agreement with those the DOE presented to the Enewefak people at the dose assessment conference. Bender and Brill conclude that the avefage yearly doses probably will be relatively small for the people of Enewetak following resettlement of the atoll, including Enjebi.*”' 22 Oct 79 RADIATION RELOCATION In response to a request by the people of Enewetak for theJDOI to consider agricultural redevelopment and reestablishment of a community on Frnjebl Ruth Van Cleve, DOI director of the office of territorial affairs, asks the DOJ to estimate the amount of time it would take for exposure levels on Enjebi to}meet applicable exposure limits.°”” 30 Oct 79 RADIATION RELOCATION In response to the DOE and the DOI questions regarding whether the proposal to resettle Enjebi requires a supplemental environmental ifnpact statement, Theodore Mitchell, MLSC, responds that resettlement of Enjebi was shfficiently studied in the 1975 environmental impact statement.” 15 Nov 79 CONTRACTOR RADIATION Roger Ray reports that NV/ERSPis evaluating a systematic efrorin the in situ measurement of americium in Enewetak. This error, in the range of PO to 25 percent, derives from improper use of a soil composition that is not reprpsentative of the _ actual. If these errors were introduced into the LLL preliminary dose fissessment, then the data are lower than actual radioactivity levels. (The calibration]procedures used in IMP calculations of transuranics data in the LLL preliminary dose first questioned by Ed Bramlitt of the DNA field command.) As revised dose assessments are put on hold until the error is clarified of necessary revisions is assessed.” assessment were result, the LLL and the extent 3 Dec 79 RADIATION RELOCATION In a draft response to Van Cleve's request for time estimates for safe exposure levels an Enjebi, Wachholz provides time estimates ranging frem 60465 years and 90- 95 years that take into account assumptions about lifestyle patterns and DOE recommendations.*”°