6. A village can be emnstructad with little effort by Holmes
& Narver at ancther location for the temporary residence of the
Rongelap natives which will be at least as confortable and sanitary
as the present Rongelap village.
"7S USTs will have no difficulty in entering the Rongelep l:~
goon and beaching at the village,
8.
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The items collected at Rongelap Island for testing included
eccoanuts, pandanus fruit, papayas, water (cistern and wall), soil
(surface and from three inches wider surface), pumpkin, eggs, fish,
clams, 12 chickens, and arrowrcet. These iteme afford a good cross
section of the diet of the Rongelap residerts.
9.
There were few food supplies noted.
but its shelves were bare.
items,
23a
Qne group
There was a small store,
The dwellings contained almost no food
.
~ Again the survey party ws divided into two parts.
Dlew to Utirik stall, surveyed the conditims there and
returned to Rongelap Atoll lagoon. The cther group moved on the
PHILIP to Adlinginae Atoll. The destroyer stood off the southern
side of the atall end dispatched notcr whaleboats to Sifo and Enibuk.
At Sifo certain equipment left there by meabers of Task Group
7.2 was reecvered. Also, the camp used by the natives fran Rongelap
was inspected, Sifo will not be satisfactory as a site for the tenporary relocation of the Rongelap natives. The natives do not wish
to go theres; it is inaccessible to medical facilities; and the current
radiation levels are 6 MI/HR. At Enibuk Ialand the crew of the PHILIP
assisted the natives in moving the 30-foct sloop onto the beach. The
PHILIP returned to Rongelap Atoll lagoon and arrived just as the Si-16
returned from Utirik.
The group from the Si-16 aircraft and the samples
fram Utirik were taken aboard the PHILIP, which sailed at 1930
of the survey party visited Utirik during the day.
The eight asmbers of the party who onde the flight to Utirik were: Colo-
nel, Byars, ir. Terrill, wr. Kelley, Mr. Wilds, Lt Chapman,
Mr. Dare,
te Compass, and Native Kabwodwod. 4n SA
aircraft
from Exxiwetok landed in the lagoon at Rongelap, took aboard the survey
eroup, and took off for Utirik at 0830.
FR
The Si-36 landed at Utirik at 1000 hours. There are many coral
heads in the lagoon just under the surface of the water, but the pilot
the SA-16 was able to land without difficulty. The survey group
f
moved to and fram the beach in the six-aan rubber life reft fram the