Mr. Theodore 7 Mitchell 3 October 29, 1974 & with, or because costs for their maintenance are not provided, or because local people are not trained to properly use and maintain them. While Lvwos very ‘’avoritly iripressei by the thinking on water supplies within the reports, !wondcr if cnough thought has gone into problems concerning their long term maintenance. (2): Social Services. While impressed again by the thoroughness with which the desires of the local people have been taken into consideration, it is hard to comment on social services without knowing more about the breakdown of the population itself. -None of the reports tell us much about the current educational and literacy status of the people, and about their goals for self and children -- other than to return to Enewetak. Though obviously their expectations for imported items has gone up during their 28 years of exile, what about their occupational desires, and meee especially the occupational desires of the younger people? One thing that bothered me about the reports is that while four room schools are proposed for both the driEnewetak and driEnjebi, nothing is written about the type of education system proposed for these schools and the type of teachers to be recruited. Let me generalize this comment to all types of service personnel, since I was also concerned about the lack of attention paid, under agriculture and fishing, to extension personnel, let alone to the relationship of the different types of service personnel to each other. Iam raising here the fundamental question as to what different categories of people will be willing to do, occupationally, once they return and hew best to facilitate their future economic and social independence and development, (3) Viable Land and Water Use Systerns. The Master Plan was based on the assumption that all the islands in the atoll could be used for subsistence and cash crg¢> agriculture -- with a total available acreage _of approximately i000. Asa result, however,of the AEC Task Force recommendations, this total has been cut to a maximum of 722 uscebie acres for a current population of over 400 people. Bearing in mind the poor quality of the soil and the rapid rate of population increase, it seems to me absolutely essential that the people retain access to Ujelang Atoll. Even then the available land area ona per capita basis is considerably less than that utilized by the people prior to their first relocation. The situation is worrisome and points up the need (a) to obtain the best possible seed for coconuts for both subsistence and cash crops purposes, with the search bearing in mind the major advances in productivity that have occurred on research stations in the Ivory Coast and in the Phillipines. (b) to push mariculture hard while keeping the means of production strictly in local hands so as to spread cinployment. Equipment (outboards for example) should be Lay ie Sing Ned ) ga