. arene. oe re ' -3- C3 M. E. Gates iow) ry tans alee ee ed emenen wee or meer Sane ere ome eam a, considered acceptable for permanent residence; one which is below 100 pCi/gm may be intensively farmed; and one which exceeds 100 pCi/gm may have limited usefulness. But other conditions are not equal. As we have seen at Bikini, the distribution of land rights and cultural considerations, among other things, are in conflict with the purely radiological considerations. And at Enewetak, Engebi--if it had no transuranics in the soil-—would likely be relegated for sometime to limited use. Yet it is very important to the identity and well-being of the Engebi people. Size, configuration, approaches, orientation to wind and spray—these are some of the other factors to be considered. Most of ail, with limited resources, the Task Group Commander should consider the Atoll as a whole. "“Case-by-—case" consideration of the resources to be applied to one island must include consideration of what else might be done with those same resources applied elsewhere. And so, the people of Fnewetak must, in some way, participate in that deliberation. The task Group Commander will never have enough information to accurately quantify all of the sub-tasks in advance. But he is under considerable pressure to start using, to the fullest, the cleanup forces that have been provided him. And only he can decide when he has sufficient information upon which to act. If I were in that role, I should try at the earliest possible date to developv two ordered lists of islands. The first would order them as to the relative amount of effort required to bring each to its desired condition (more than:‘one condition might be considered for some islands). The second ordering would be with respect to the potential value or usefulness of an island. With these two lists in hand, a first approximation of the distribution of effort should be developed. Both lists, and therefore planned distribution of effort, will change as more and more information becomes available; and so the Task Group Commander's detailed cleanup objectives should be considered flexible. Each objective will be expressed as a level of soil contamination (or maximum concentration) which will remain in a given area after cleanup action is complete. We should anticipate that he may change his objective to a higher or a lower number as the scope, unfolds. The DOE Project’ Manager will participate in decision-making in basically three ways: He will furnish a detailed radiological descrip-— tion of the area or island being considered; he will provide to the Commander, and: continuously undate, an estimate of the quantity of material to be removed in order to meet a given objective; and he will assist the representative of the people of Enewetak to understand the need for, and the significance of, their participation.