DRAFT i MARSHALL ISLANDS CHRONOLOGY INTRODUCTION This draft chronology presents the historical record of events relating to the Department of Energy/Energy Research and Development Administration/Atomic Energy Commission (DOE/ERDA/AEC) medical, environmental, and radiological safety activities in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1990. Among the milestones included are agreements between the Marshallese and the United States, particularly those involving the DOE and its predecessors; relocation and resettlement efforts; legal responsibilities assumed by the AEC, the ERDA, and the DOE; administration of U.S. governmentactivities in the islands; medical findings; environmentalstudies; radiation safety criteria applied in the Marshalls and in the U.S.; and U.S. nuclear testing activities in the region. in orderto facilitate use of the chronology by those interested in a particular aspect of developments in the Marshall Islands, we have assigned each entry one or more topical headings from the following list: ADMINISTRATION AGREEMENT CLAIMS CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP CONTRACTOR LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY MEDICAL POLICY PLUTONIUM RADIATION |. RELOCATION WEAPONTESTING By selecting only those entries under a specific heading, one can follow more directly the story of any areaof particular interest, such as the DOE medical program, governmentpolicy, or legal responsibility. In developing this chronology, History Associates searched |) records in the DOEArchives in Germantown,including the AEC Secretariatfiles, Division of Biology and Medicinefiles, the Joe Deal and Tommy McCrawcollections, as well as a number of other collections; 2) records held by Environment, Safety, and Health (EH), including thefiles turned over by John Rudolph (DP) and by Management (AD); 3) files from the Nevada Operations Office made available to us by Harry Brown; 4) Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE) records at the National Archives; 5) the document collection at the Coordination and Information Center in Las Vegas, Mla? Carl oe cz Nevada; 5) U.S. Statutes at Large, and 6) Executive Orders of the President. The