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Honorable Sidney F. Yates
Chairman,
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Subcommittee on Interior (
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Committee on Appropriations
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House of Representatives
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Washington,
Dear Mr.
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Chairman:
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AS promised in my progress report of July 3,
1979,
on
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Enewetak Rehabilitation and Resettlement Project to your
Committee,
I
am submitting this
followup report on recent
developments.
The Department of Energy during March and April of
.
this year
.
conducted a new soil survey of Engebi Island and other northern
islands of Enewetak Atoll,
by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
entitled,
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and the results were analyzed
A draft report
"Preliminary Reassesment of the Potential Radio-
logical Doses for Residents Resettling Enewetak Atoll" was
issued by DOE on July 23,
1979.
This preliminary report has
not yet been released because survey results on one additional
RSTERM
northewm island,
RYO ALL OF THE
ISLAWKES [i THE
NORTHWEST
Lujor,,still have to be factored into
the dose calculations.
It is not expected that the
additional information will substantially alter the
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exposure estimatés,
Copies of the
final reassessment
report will be provided to the Committee as soon as
it
is released by the Department of Energy.
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