RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL 112 under the A summaryof actual expenditures incurred during the project 9. r Chapte in ed contain is n riatio MILCON approp The Deputy Secretary of Defense also requested that the Chairman. JCS have the military departments designate, at the earliest practicable date the military support units to be deployedfor this project, in order to permit the initiation of detailed operational! planning.233 The Joint Staff decided however, to wait untii CONPLAN 1-76 had been revised to reflect all changes in the concept before formally tasking the Military Services. The The JCS and the Director, DNA had advised against having the Services furnish materiel and transportation support without reimbursement on the After reviewing the 2 July 1976 CONPLAN, the Joint Staff recommended that it be modified to include helicopters for medical Joint staff did not task the Services until 24 January 1977.234 | basis that it would detract from the Services’ other missions.*2? The 2 July 1976 edition of CONPLAN 1-76 reflected this position and included funds were received from CINCPAC23¢ and the Air Force Surgeon General 237 also included $2.9 million (ERDA’s latest estimate) to reimburse ERDA Appropriations Act, CONPLAN I-76 was revised as of 15 September 1976.238 Several annexes were added to conform to the JCS Operations for radiological support based on the 7 September 1972 conference agreement.230 This plan was reviewed by DNA officials at Headquarters and Field Command on 2 August 1976 to identify means of reducing costs to the $20 million which had been appropriated. One obviousaction wasto limit the reimbursement of ERDA to the $1.5 million which had been ERDA’soriginal estimate and which had been contained in the original DNA budget request for radiological support. Other possible reductions of MILCON costs also were discussed; however, it was agreed that no further changes to the CONPLAN would be made until JCS comments were received on the 2 July 1976 version which had been distributed by the Joint Staff to the Services and the CINCPAC.23! The Chairman of the JCS, General George S. Brown, USAF, wasbriefed on the CONPLAN during a visit to Field Command that autumn. In forwarding the 2 July 1976 CONPLAN, DNA had requested that the Military Services be assigned formal responsibility for supporting the cleanupproject and that supporting Service elements be designated so that detailed planning could begin immediately, with the objective of starting cleanup operations on 1 March 1977.232 On 10 September 1976, the Deputy Secretary of Defense requested the Chairman, JCS, to inform the Military Departments of the requirement to accomplish this project under the conditions imposed by the Congress and the need to provide support to this project, including but not limited to: a. Full and effective troop support. b. Maximum feasible use of PCS rather than TDY to conserve project hs im 113 FIELD COMMAND CONCEPTPLAN 1-76: 15 SEPTEMBER 1976 to reimburse the Services in its estimated total cost of $24.33! million. It —my Planning and Programming tu Ww eerrer MILCON appropriation and to keep the total project cost down. c. Provision of supplies, equipment, including repair parts, and transportation available Service-wide required for timely accomplishment of the project. evacuation and an annex on communications support.235 Comments also Based on these comments and on the provisions of the FY 1977 MILCON Plan format. This CONPLAN was resubmitted to the JCS, who approved it with a few final refinements. These refinements were incorporated as Change Number! on ! February 1977. The final CONPLAN I-76 contained all the basic policy and concepts and most of the procedures required to execute the project in accordance with the will of Congress and the direction of the Secretary of Defense and the JCS,239 THE MISSION: SEPTEMBER 1976 The mission, as authorized by Congress240 and approved by the JCS,24! was to conduct a full Case 3 EIS cleanup; i.e.: a. Physical hazards will be removed from all islands. b. Obstructions to development of habitations and agriculture will be removed. c. Unsalvable nonradioactive material will be disposed of in accordance with appropriate procedures. d. Boken, Lujor, and Runit plutonium concentrations greater than 400 pCi/g will be excised, and all other concentrations between 400 and 40 pCi/g will be dealt with on an individual basis (seven islands are in this range). Concentrations of less than 40 pCi/g will not be disturbed. Cleanup of plutonium is expected to be performed iteratively until a sufficiently low concentration level is attained. n te tabaenaaheel inl f° Radioactive scrap will be removed from all islands in (Radioactive scrap has been identified on nine islands.) the Atoll. g. Radioactive materials will be disposed of by crater containment on unit.