DRAFT 42 the people take this money." The AEC has also agreed to explain radiation to the people of Bikini and Enewetak before they are returned to their islands.”*” Apr 74 ADMINISTRATION CONTRACTOR MEDICAL PLUTONIUM RADIATION r Ray, assistant manager of NV in charge of the Enewetak radiological survey, and Walter Nervik of LLL, technical director of the survey, travel to the Marshall Islands to explain the technical information contained in the recently published Enewetak Radiological Survey (NVO-140) to representatives of the T.T. and the Enewetak people.” Personnel from the LRE and BNL collect samples on Utirik, Rongelap and Bikini Atolls as part of the DOS portion of the LRE Pacific Radioecology Program to determine the kinds and amounts of radionuclides distributed in the foods, plants, animals, and soil of the central Pacific and supply them to the agencies involved in calculating dose assessment for people living in the central Pacific.™ The first in vivo counting of cesium’ is taken for Bikini residents. Cesium 137 values are about the same as 1973. Strontium™ levels are down to about 1970 levels. Plutonium” and plutonium” levels are higher by a factor of five.”” May 74 CLAIMS RELOCATION A group of Bikini people refuse to return to the atoll on 25 May 1974 until they receive appropriate compensation for the past 25 years.”” 14 May 74 RADIATION John W. McEnery, DNA deputy director of operations and administration, disagrees with the AEC task group recommendations for cleanup and rehabilitation of ‘ Enewetak... He,regards the recommendations as “an unduly restrictive application of criteria that, are.largely. arbitrary. and.probably inapplicable". and "not in accord with the wishes. and, probable:needs:af ‘the Enewefak people. _McEeryStates, “The radiological and. other safety conditions upontheir return should apply to those local conditions, not necessarily those of the U.S. population with its different radiological conditions and its greater uncertainties of exposure.” 3 Jun 74 ADMINISTRATION James _tiverman, the AEC assistant general manager for biomedical and environmental research and safety programs, proposes to Mahlon E. Gates, director, NV, that NV be assigned responsibility for programmatic coordination of the AEC’s activities in the Marshall Islands.”” 19 Jun 74 . y PLUTONIUM RADIATION The AECtask group issues recommendations for cleanup and rehabilitation of Enewetak Atoll. The radiation criteria guides for cleanup actions include: whole body and bone marrow-0.25 rem/yr, thyroid0.75 rem/yr; bone-0.75 rem/yr, gonads-4 rem 2000 0G