Us por tPecpys eer oan L. doe Deal — 2 rood IpeeBe Polder Fak Sheek - GitaReselanert : September 2, 1975 FACT SHEET - BIKINI RESETTLEMENT 1968 I. Ad Hoc Committee report. (TAB 1) The exposures to radiation that would result from the repatriation of the Bikini people do not offer a significant threat to their health and safety. 2. Such exposure may and should be further reduced by the following simple measures: a. Restrict rehabilitation for the present to the islands of the b. Establish the first village and immediate food crops on Eneu, No radiological precautions will be needed on Eneu because of Bikini-Eneu complex. (Appendix IV) its very low contamination level. (Appendix V) 3. c. Any village construction on Bikini Island should involve the covering of the site with coral rock as is the local custom. d. Radioactive scrap metal should be removed from the islands adjacent to former shot sites. e. The population of land crabs should be sharply reduced because of their high content of strontium 90. f. If pandanus trees which produce edible fruit are planted on Bikini Island, two inches of topsoil should be removed from the planting sites. The area of removal from each site should be equal to the area covered by the crown of mature trees. Determinations should be made of body burdens of cesium 137 and strontium 90 at the end of the first year of residence on the Atoll and as appropriate thereafter. Baseline surveys prior to relocation would be desirable. Resurveys of environmenial radiation levels © on the Bikini Atoll and estimates of radionuclices in food should be made periodically. These surveys will pro-ice a continual check of the radiation status of the people and environment and will help form a basis for decision as to the time ot rehabitation of islands outside of the Bikini-Eneu complex.