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DEC 6 73
Martin B. Biles, Director
Division of Cperational Safety
MEETING TO DISCUSS THE NEXT SURVEY IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS
Those listed in Attachment | met November 27, 1973, to discuss plans
for an environmental survey of Bikini Atoll to be performed in con-
' fanction with Dr. Bob Conard's medical survey.
Attachment 2 was prepared by Dr. Conard to describe the proposed
medical and radiological survey activities for the March '74 field trip.
Of major concern to Bob is the arrangement for an LCU vessel which
he considers almost indispensable for obtaining whole body measurements. (The whole-body counting facility would be set up in a trailer
that would be loaded on the LCU.) Bob urged that authority be sought
to go ahead with preparation of such atrailer even though negotiatidhns
fer the LCU are not completed.
possibility.
DBER attendees agreed to look into this
The group discuased the problem of attaining an adequated level of calcium in the Bikini diet. You will recall] that an Ad Hoc Committee
recommendation was directed at the need for this measure. Bob re-
ported that his experience with the Marshall Island peoples shows they
do not use much milk or powdered milk even if available.
In fact, it
is possible they do not digest well such milk. He suggested the best
approach may be to look for seme type of dessert the Bikini people
would like in which the necesesry calcium could be given. As to the
necessary followup for the Ad Hoc Committee's recommendation,
” Bob agreed to contact John De Young at Interior to see what, if any,
followup they were planning. Depending on the results of this discussion,
we mayinitiate a letter to Interier on this point. The purpose would be
wm tae he pin down Interior to provide needed followup through « letter
Sing the recommendation for removal of soil at sites for
faxpesdanas, the point was made that on much of Bikini Island
of} has been considerably disturbed through scrub vegetation
clearing activities. It was also reported that LLL staff have been
given all past data collected by University of Washington and are trying
to correlate levels of radioactivity in soil with those inplants and in-
fruits of plants.
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