DISCUSSION The doses presented in this assessment are calculated assuming that for northern living patterns the coconut, breadfruit and Pandanus fruit will come from the southern islands for the first 8 years. At the end of 8 years these subsistence crops should be available from initial plantings made on the residence island at the time of return. The diet used to determine the daily intake of radionuclides is the most direct data available on the current dietary habits of the Enewetak people (see tables 17-24 and appendix 7). The diet is of course very important in predicting doses to a population because the dose will scale directly with dietary intake. We have mentioned in previous assessments the importance of the diet and the uncertainty which was inherent in previously constructed dietary patterns (1,7,21). For the first time we have direct input from 4 significant number (144) of the Enewetak populetion as a function of age and of dietary conditions. The “normal condition" in this report refers to the usual and expected living conditions in which the preferred imported foods are available. The "famine condition' "is the situation which occurs ocassionally even today when imported foods are in short supply or absent from the diet and there is nearly a total dependence upon locally grown subsistence crops. diet, It is still emphasized thet an accurate picture of the especially as it reflects on the consumption of locally grow foodstuffs, options at is extremely important in the dose predictions for resettlement the atoll. The transuranic doses from inhalation anc ingestion are based on an extrapolation of the 2415/24] Am ratio observed on Enjebi (Janet) Island IO11 124