bD il [ qi ul i BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES, INC. 40207 & Safety & Environmental Protection Division Upton, New York 11973 (516) 3454250 December 29, 1978 Mr. W. J. Stanley, Director USDOE, PASO P.O. Box 29939 Honolulu, Hawaii 96820 Dear Bill: Harry Brown has been diligently working with us behind the scenes to arrange for a relatively uncomplicated field trip to Majuro and a second round of whole body counting for the Bikini people who currently reside there. His efforts are to be commended in light of the fact that both PASO and ourselves are caught in the middle of DOE and interagency politics and protocol which have complicated our efforts. We have essentially resigned ourselves to the week of 21 January as the earliest possible time to do this work in Majuro. Our party will consist of myself and Bob Miltenberger as the whole body counting team, Evie Craighead as our interpreter. We anticipate completion of the whole body counting (WBC) portion of this trip by 24 January, but we will remain at Majuro through 27 January to summarize the results and to complete the urine bioassay collections. We would like your assistance in arranging for the transmittal of WBC results and analyses directly to Tom McCraw in Germantown via the most expeditious means no later than Friday, 26 January. The urgency is the result of pending Yates Committee hearings during which these data are expected to be discussed. I am thinking that the best way to accomplish this would be to get the data to Kwajalein via Air Micronesia, at which point it could be telecopied to DOE Headquarters. If you have any better ideas, please let me know. At the completion of our work in Majuro, Bob Miltenberger and I expect to continue across the Trust Territory to finish the Pacific Basin Study, a collaborative effort with the University of Washington which I began with Vic Nelson in 1975. Its purpose is to measure background radiation and environmental radioactivity in the Northern tropical Pacific. Equipment problems prevented us from finishing the external radiation measurements portion of that program on the first field trip. Our flight schedule has been confirmed, and we are trying to establish the following itinerary. All dates and times listed are "local". neposirony ——-LOE [PASO COLLECTION — Dee/,V’ BOX No. fg 26 WL OLDE # oh Fowoen Baissayfosdoes fet hg LYCoty 1999 /