Criteria Against Which Survey Findings and Alternative Measures Will Be
Evaluated
The Task Group approached the questien of radiation dose criteria from
two directions.

First, FRC, ICRP, and NCRP recommendations reviewed

above were judged as to applicability in this situation.

Second, a risk

approach was reviewed using information from ICRP, UNSCEAR, and the
National Academy of Science BEIR Committee.

The results of this latter

effort are summarized in Part E which follows.

The radiological survey of Enewetak Atoll provides a comprehensive data
base needed to derive recommendations relative to the radiologically safe
return of the Enewetak people.

These recommendations are to be based on

an evaluation of the significance of all radioactivity on the Atoll in
terms of the total exposure to be expected in the returning population,
and on consideration of those reasonable acticns and constraints which,
where made, will result in minimm exposures.

The guidelines used in deriving these recommendations can be summarized
as two interdependent consideraticns:
1.

Expected exposures should be minimized and should fall in a range
consistent with guidance put forward by the Federal Radiation Council
(FRC).

2.

Actions taken to reduce exposures should be these which show promise
of significant exposure reduction when weighed against total expected

exposures and the "costs" of the actions.

"Costs," in this context,

are measured primarily in terms of costs to the Enewetak people as
constraints on their activities or as dollar costs for cleanup or
renedial action.

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