one day the island can be resettled. There appear to be two possible approaches: a. Soil removal followed by studies with test plantings to determine whether exposure for [njebi residents would be within acceptable criteria. b. ° Conduct of studies using test plantings to determine when exposures would be within acceptable criteria but no soil renoved. In either case, housing construction and planting of subsistence and commercial crops would be deferred until research with test plantings shoved acceptably low levels of radicactivity. The Task Group recommends the second approach as one having minimal adverse impact on the island environment. Ine research program in 3 above should ciso inciude ao determination of radioactivity levels in copra and other food crops produced on PEARL, CLARA, ALICE. and BELLE. YVONNE should also be included after removal of plutoniim contaminated soil. Ali radioactive scrap metal and contaminated debris identified durins the Holmes and Narver [ngineering Survey should be removed. If additional contaminated debris is discovered in the course of cleanun and rehabilitation operations, it too should be removed. Specificellv included in this recommendation are the three locations on SALLY ana one on ELMER where contaminated debris is known to be buried. This debris should be exhumed and removed. The quarantine of YVONNE should be continued in effect wmtil the plutonium contamination on that island is reduced to acceptable levels ~ NWS Should any Enewetak people return to the atoli before cleanup is