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(This is Attachment No. 4 to memo.dated 4/2/68, from J.R.Totter, Director,
DBM, to the Chairman and Commissioners, subject "Activities Concerning the
Return of the Natives to the Bikini Atéll")
APR 3
1968
The Honorable Stewart L. Udall
Secretary of Interior
Washington, D. C. 20240
‘Dear Stew:
In accordance with your letter of December 7, 1966, and ay reply of
December 20, 1966, the Atomic Energy Comeission in collaboration with
the Trust Territories sent a team to the Bikini Atoll to make measure-
ments of the externa) radiation dose rate and to collect samples of
soil and biota, the analysis of which would permit an estimate of the
hazard of internal dose.
The survey was conducted in April-May 1967. Analysis of the radiation
measurements and of the collected samples is now complete and reports
of the results have been prepared. Under the guidance of Dr. John R.
Totter, Director of the Division of Biology and Medicine, a meeting is
to be held in May 1968, at which the members of the survey team, together with a group of expert consultants, will review the results and
develop a recommendation to the AEC with regard to the feasibility,
from a radiation standpoint, of the return of the natives to the Bikini
Atoll,
When the recommendation of the above group has been received by the
Commission, I will be in touch with you egain.
Cordially,
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