such results for one location on Eneman and two locations on Bikini. Except for plutonium levels in soil, the measurements of environmental radioactivity in these reports confirmed the results of the 1967 survey. The Department of Interior is presently conducting the agricultural recovery phase of the project and it was recently reported that housing construction is to begin about May of 1970. At present there are approx- imately 20 native workers and a Trust Territory representative at Bikini Atoll engaged in the agricultural program. Levels of Alpha Emitters in Soil and Air Bikini Atoll. As reported in Information Paper AEC 604/124 dated March 23, 1970, the levels of plutonium-239 (and plutonium-240) in two soil samples for Bikini Island appear to be about a factor of 10 higher than the level reported for a sample collected in 1964. More recent analyses performed by the Southwestern Radiological Health Laboratory (SWRHL) and the University of Washington have confirmed levels for these two samples analyzed in 1969; samples from other locations on Bikini have proven to be somewhat lower. The values for Bikini Island range from 1.3 to 190 pCi/g, and for Eneu Island, from 0.5 to < 3 pCi/g of soil, as shown in Tables 1 and 2. Previous analyses for Eneman Island, a nearby test island not currently planned for rehabilitation, showed plutonium-239 levels ranging from 83 to 410 pCi/g in surface soil. - 10 -