DRAFT 18 Oct 73 ADMINISTRATION 44 . The director, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provides guidance to the AEC, the DOD, and the DO! on indusion of funds in the FY 1975 budget for cleanup and rehabilitation of Enewetak. The FY 1975 budget should “show continuing Administration commitment to the dean-up and rehabilitation of the Atoll, but consistent with current uncertainty regarding the final detailed clean-up and rehabilitation plan." Agency responsibilities identified are: the DOD for maintaining ongoing facilities and operations and deanup at Enewetak; the DOI for rehabilitation;and the AEC for radiological monitoring and survey. Subsequently AGMMA calls for a dlarification of terminology between "radiological control,” a DNA responsibility, and "radiological monitoring," an AEC responsibility.” 1974-1975 CONTRACTOR RADIATION The AEC/DBER sponsors a research program conducted by LLL and the University of Hawaii to study the groundwater on several islets in the EnewetakAtoll in order to characterize the ground water for possible use by returning Marshallese and to investigate the hydrology and recycling of radionuclides in an atoll environment. Drilling for wells takes place in mid-1974, and sampling programs are carried out in 1974 and 1975.%° 1 Jan 74 ADMINISTRATION Host manager responsibility for Enewetak Auxiliary Airfield is transferred from the Department of the Air Force to the DNA. 9 Jan 74 _ ADMINISTRATION At the request of MLSC, the signing of documents to transfer control of Enewetak Atoll: froth the DOD to the 7:7. is delayed to allow representatives of the people of Enewetak' to’review the document.™# "8 eer pth tefts jer Oe ¢ 27 Feb 74. - Te len. Bg Te PLES \ . see toys ‘ : i ahaa CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP ___ SenateJoint Resolution No. 90, H.D. |, is adopted by the Fifth Congress of Micronesia, Second Regular Session "Requesting UnitedStates Congressional funding of the Bikini Rehabilitation Projects be separate and distinct from annual United States Congress Grant Funds for the T.T. of the Pacific Islands". 28 Feb 74 AGREEMENT CLAIMS y The Special Joint Committee Concerning Rongelap and Utirik Atolls ts to the Fifth Congress of Micronesia on compensation the people of Rongelap and Utirik. According to the report, the AEC complied with the committee's recommendation to send an AEC representative on the 1974 medical survey. The AEC also agreed to another committee recommendation to supply money for Micronesian P.L 5-52 by allocating $20,000 for the first year. The committee also wanted the AEC to pay the "inconvenience money” promised in 1970, and the AEC indicated that it "is ready to provide $18,212 for the 157 people of Utirik who were exposed....There will be no release ofliability for the AEC or the U.S. Governmentif 5006349