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May 8, 1978
Memo to Files
MEETING, HAY 5,
1978, OFFICE OF TRUST TERRITORY, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Present: Mrs. Ruth Van Cleve, Dir., Office of Trust Territory; George
Milner, Dep. Dir., Office of Trust Territory; John DeYoung, Office of
Trust Territory; Department of Energy, L. Joe Deal, Tom McCraw, OES;
Dr. W. W. Burr, Dr. W. Weyzen, BER, Harry Brown, NV/Honoluln.
At the Committee review of the Department of the Interior, Office of Trust
Territory Budget on April 12, 1978, the Chairman, Sidney Yates, asked
for a report on the Bikini situation by May 15 which has now been slipped
to May 22.
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the information that will be
available for the May 22, 1978, Hearing.
The DOI and High Commissioner
will be meeting with the UN Committee on Trust Territory during the week
of May 15, 1978, and it would be highly desirable to have whatever infor-~mation is available by then.
It was agreed at the meeting that:
1.
Bikini people now living on Bikini Island should be moved, because the
current trend in the accumulation of radiation exposure will produce
doses that would be expected to exceed the Federal standards.
Also,
the restrictions on people living on the island, i.e., not eating locally
grown foods, are proving impractical.
If the foods being grown on Eneu
Island are found to have acceptably low radioactivity, people can be
moved to live on that island without any restrictions on foods from
that island.
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2.
The DOL/High Commissioner fa developing a plan for moving the people,
probably to Eneu Island.
He is awaiting advice from DOE on a move to
Eneu.
3.
Mrs. Van Cleve has asked for a status report from DCE confirming past
4.
On May 18, 1978, DOT and DOE will "dry run" the Hearing schedule for
the Yates Committee on May 22.
information on Eneu well water, and the whole body counting data from
the latest survey.
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