DRAFT 85 1 Jul 87 ADMINISTRATION CONTRACTOR RADIATION The PASO issues Operations Plan 87-5, Mission Number, FY 1987, for an August 1987 LLNL/BARC trip to Enewetak and Bikini Atolls as pag investigations.°” of their terrestrial 10 Jul 87 ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT DOI Order Number 3119 delegates the authority of thé Secretary of the Interior for the T.T. to the assistant secretary, territorial and international affairs, who will guarantee that all obligations and responsibilities under the 1947 trusteeship are fulfilled.*"° 24 Jul 87 ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT The DOE agrees to provide assistance to the DO! and fhe BARC for the Enewetak food-related programs and the BARC work at Bikini.*” Aug 87 CONTRACTOR RADIATION The RMI contracts with Dr. Henry Kohn, chairman of theBIRC, to review the 1982 DOE report on the risks of resettling Rongelap and to assegses the adequacy of the data on which the report was based.*” 1 Aug 87 RADIATION CONTRACTOR H&Nreports that the Runit concrete dome’sstructural integgty is not impaired and there are no radiation leaks.*" 7 Aug 87 MEDICAL | The Journal of the American Medical Association (AMA) publishes, "Thyroid Neoplasia in Marshail Islanders Exposed to Nuclear Fallout,” by Thdmas E. Hamilton, Gerald van Belle, and James P. LoGerfo from the University of Washington. Using results from examinations of 7,266 Marshallese from 14 atolls, iqcluding southern atolls, the authors studied the risk of thyroid neoplasia in Marshall [slanders exposed to radioiodines from Castle Bravo. Their study reveals that "an pxcess of thyroid nodules was notlimited only to the two northern atolls but extendgd throughout the northern atolls; this suggests a linear dose-response relationship.” 25 Aug 87 RADIATION RELOCATION The RMI announces the selection of Dr. Henry I. Kohn to conduct the reassessment of the 1982 report.*”