DRAFT 102 proceed.” He describes the program approval and review processes for the bioassay program.*”” May 90 RADIATION Bernd Franke of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, a Takoma Park, Marylandinstitute, issues "Why the Rongelap ReassessmentProject Did Not Fulfill Its Mission, Rongelap Versus Eniwetak and Bikini: Equal Treatment?" to the Rongelap Atoll local government. The report alleges failures of the Kohn report and discusses the varying criteria for the assessments of Bikini, Enewetak, and Rongelap.*™ 1 May 90 RADIATION WEAPONTESTING David Weiman meets with Joseph Karpinski, DOE principal deputy assistant secretary for congressional and intergovernmental affairs; Gary Palmer, special assistant to the under secretary; and Gary Knight, deputy assistant secretary for House liaison, prior to Senator Anjain’s testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies (Yates Committee). Weiman provides DOE Secretary Watkins’s office with Assistant Secretary Roser’s 23 March 1982 memorandum and a 14 April 1982 memorandum from J. W. Thiessen to A. W. Trivelpiece regarding the transfer of Marshall islands programs from EP to DP. He raises three sensitive new matters of concern: a DOE radiation double standard at Rongelap; questionable applicability of traditional DOE dose standards to the exposed people of Rongelap; and Safeguard "C" and the subordination of health and safety programs. Weimanstates that "Senator Anjain and Rongelap believe there is a reasonable and easily attained solution to the overall matter’ and that Anjain and Weiman are “willing to work to work with the Secretary to resolve it*.‘” 2 May 90 ‘RADIATION Se ms ' DOESUndee'Secretary:Johts. CG. Tuck: requests:thatthé NASi‘ufidertake an independent.’ review:<ofa‘alt: data. available. ‘regarding the:‘radiological’: status and habitability-of RoBgelap2:This: review stould: consider’ the views' Of ithePeople of Rongelap,DOS, andcthosewha conductedthe Initial’ mew pursiant‘to the COFA: He requests that members of the review panel be selected in a manner that assures impartiality so that the conclusions will be acceptable to the people of Rongelap.™ 4 May 90 ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL RADIATION WEAPONTESTING Sen. John Glenn . (D-Ohio), chairman of the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, requests DOE Secretary Watkins to support an independent "Phase Il" assessmentof the radiological contamination of Rongelap Atoll and provide humanitarian assistance so that the Rongelap people may resettle where they will have access to food and medical care.’ Sen. Anjain issues a statement to the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies onbehalf of the Rongelap Atoll local government and the Rongelap people. He states that the Rongelap reassessment project created new questions rather than resolving them and demonstrated that there is “a significant lack of knowledge’ concerning the environmental and radiological conditions on Rongelap and the healt IOOeE bE