SEPTEMBER 2, 1975 - 1:00 P.M. MEETING Participants: ‘ Oscar DeBrum, Distad Tony DeBrum, TTPI Carmen Bigler, Rep. to the Congress of Micronesia Charles Dominik, Rep. to Congress of Micronesia Ataji Balos, Rep. to Congress of Micronesia Larry Edwards, Distad Rep. Ebeye Lanlin Alik, Distad Rep. Bikini Nathan Note, Scribe Anien, Nitijela, Speaker Ekpap Silk, Nitijela Representative Jim McAfee, Legislative Counselor Adjin Paul, Nitijela Representative Kita Lanin, Nigijela Representative Ray: Thank you Distad DeBrum. As Mr. DeBrum said I am from the ERDA as is Kris Morris, what you formerly knew as AEC. Dr. Gudiksen is from Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and has been an active participant in surveys at both Enewetak and Bikini including the most recent one at Bikini in June. About a year ago Mr. DeBrum asked us, asked ERDA, to assist in the review of the Master Plan for the development of Bikini and very specifically, to comment upon the proposed locations of new housing features of that community. In January of this year in a meeting in Anaheim attended by Distad DeBrum and others from Majuro, we looked over the preliminary Master Plan and asked that action on that plan be delayed until we could make a new comprehensive survey, especially of Bikini Island. Our reason for that was that for the first time we saw @ plan to build houses on the interior and not on the lagoon, as the present houses are. So we felt it was necessary to learn, to know, more about the possible radiation levels in the interior before we suggest that plan be carried out. We had planned that that comprehensive survey include an aerial survey of all other islands in the atoll including Bikini and Enyu. We hoped that that survey would take place starting in about April of this year. It required that we have aircraft and ships and substantial support from the Department of Defense. We planned that and requested that from the Dept. of Defense but for reasons of interference from other activities it could not be scheduled to provide this support in time to do this survey as we had hoped to do. So we revised our plan and using our research vessel, our LCU, the Liktanur, which is based at Kwajalein, in June we sent about 25 men to Bikini to conduct a detailed survey on the ground. The results of that survey are in two parts. First, our purpose was to make measurements with instruments right on the ground of the radiation levels that would be experienced by people on the islands, to determine if there were places where the radiation levels were too high for the full time residents and to map that in order to be able to advise on housing locations. This information was available almost immediately after the survey. It took us a little while to plot it on maps and interpret that but that information was available quite promptly after our survey in June. The second type of information we wanted to get, was information about concentrations of radiation in the soil, the plants, vegetables and small animals that might be a part of the food of people residing on Bikini. That information will -g-