DRAFT 5 20 Jul 51 ADMINISTRATION CONTRACTOR ’ RADIATION At Enewetak the AEC is represented through the Santa Fe Operations Office by H&N. H&N performs the AEC post-Greenhouse “roll-up,” including reducing residual radioactivity somewhat by bulldozing surface dirt away from shot areas.” 31 Aug 51 ADMINISTRATION Congress appropriates funds to the Department of the Interior (DOI) for the FY 1952 for expenses of the high commissioner and the T.T. and for grants to the T.T. for support of governmental functions. In addition, Congress authorizes the T.T. to make purchases through the General Services Administration and permits transfers of excess Navy Department property to the Secretary of the Interior for administering the T.T. (Public Law (P.L) 82-136). 25 Sep 47 - 17 Aug 51 ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS The Navy Department’s Bureau of Yards and Docks is designated in 1947 as the representative of the AEC to obtaintitle to land at Enewetak. The Bureau asserts that the AEC should pay the Enewetak natives $515,360 for the land area of which they were historic owners until their December 1947 removal. The AEC contendsthat payment should be made only after proper establishment of claims based on land ownership. As of August 1951 no such claims have yet been lodged against the AEC. 28 Sep 51 ADMINISTRATION - Congress appropriates $1,772,000 to the Navy to acquire land for yards and docks facilities in the T.¥. (PiL. 82-155).* 27 Apr 52 :Ete RELOCATION. ..... ‘ vps . ue oo vs . A delegation, including former Sen. Elbert Thomas, high commissioner of the T.T., discusses the plight of the Bikinians with AEC Chairman Gordon Dean. The delegation seeks a better place for the Bikinians to live because Kili lacks fishin opportunities and cannot receive supplies during at least four months of the year. 12 Sep 52 RADIATION RELOCATION The AEC concludes tentatively that the natives now living on Kili cannot be moved to Bikini because although Bikini "is in all probability quite inhabitable from the radiological point of view,” the atoll satisfies operational requirements for a possible supplementary site.™ Oct 52 RELOCATION The Navy transports 169 Ujelang people 100 miles farther away from Enewetak for a temporary relocation as a precaution before Operation Ivy nuclear tort cr toed cS cm CF} tests.