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Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives
Washington,
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Chairman:
As promised in my progress report of July 3,
1979, on
Enewetak Rehabilitation and Resettlement Project to your
Committee,
I
am submitting this
followup report on recent
developments.
The Department of Energy during March and April of this year
conducted a new soil survey of Engebi Island and other northern
islands of Enewetak Atoll, and the results were analyzed
by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
entitled,
A draft report
"Preliminary Reassesment of the Potential Radio-
logical Doses for Residents Resettling Enewetak Atoll" was
issued by BOE on July 23,
1979.
This preliminary report has
not yet been released because survey results on one additional
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northesm island, Lujor,, still have to be factored into
the dose calculations.
It is not expected that the
additional information will substantially alter the
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exposure estimates,|
Copies of the final reassessment
report will be provided to the Committee as soon as it
is released by the Department of Energy.
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