DDOA Dr. Martin B. 14 MAY 1974 Biles Based on data in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the report it is incon- Sistent to exclude the people from Enjebi. In Table 1 with a living pattern (D) which requires importation of pandanus and breadfruit (III) the 30 year whole body dose is 4.4 rem. By importing pandanus, bread- fruit, coconut and tacca (IV) the dose becomes 3.7 rem. This is lower than your 4 rem criteria. In Table 2, the same conditions apply. [f Table 3 were used, and the FRC exposures were permitted to apply nothing would need to be done (Living pattern D, Current conditions I). Under AEC guides the importation of pandanus and breadfruit would be required. By going to Table 4 and using the guidance applicable to Category III, FRC Report No. 7 it appears that Living Pattern D under current conditions would be applicable. Even with the more restrictive AEC interpretation, Living Pattern D with the importation of pandanus, breadfruit as in IV would apply. Your present AEC Report rejects an undelayed occupation of Enjebi, as is desired by the Enewetak people, even though the reduction factor of two in your proposed criteria is vulnerable to accusations that this factor conveniently delays the desired habitation, particularly in view of (1) the unusually well-measured and well-known radiological» situation for Enewetak, (2) the small likelihood of other radiation sources being on bone dose, and (4) the lack of cost-benefit or relative risk analyses introduced into Enewetak at a rate faster than the decay of present radioactivity, (3) the questionable validity of applying any criteria in this AEC Report. “ Instead of the restrictive approach in the present AEC Report, a broader range of rehabilitation possibilities should be available to the Enewetak people for their judgment. The consequences of each of these possibilities should be clearly made with the U.S. role being to temper their judgment on the basis of well-established radiological effects. To enable such choices to be made objectively, the particularly prejudicial statements in your present AEC Report should be modified accordingly. Among these are: p. 22: vi ho ; p. 23: statement that corrective actions '.... would constitute an experiment involving Enjebi people” statement about "Heroic actions would be required to reconstitute the remaining soil ....'' on Enjebi after corrective actions statement about a period as long as 16 to 20 years (two - eight to ten year periods) .... before the island could support its inhabitants"