Bruce Wacholz -5- July 23, 1979 A substantial body of data exists in the Medical Department and S&EP Division at BNL on the values of various anatomical parameters for Marshallese adults and children (e.g., body weight and height as a functional sex and age). Also, the recent Bikini experience has afforded us an opportunity to make direct measurements of excretion rate constants for 13’cs and 9%sr/9°y, and possibly for transuranic nuclides. We expect to compile these data into an information base for a Marshallese "Reference Man, Woman and Child", which will be useful in predictive dosimetry efforts. In our discussion with Dr. Pratt, BNL Medical Department, we have agreed on the need to establish a "control" atoll against which medical and radiological findings on contaminated atolls may be referenced. If this proposal is approved by DOE, we would establish routine personnel and environmental monitoring programs at the control atoll in a cooperative venture with the BNL It. Medical Department. , Manpower Our present staff consists of three scientific or professional staff members and two technical support persons dedicated to the MIRSP. This staffing level often leaves us overextended in attempting to meet our present commitments. We expect to add two additional personnel in FY 1980; but we envision the need for at least one additional staff member to assist in the program expansion to include Enewetak, and with the proposed "control" atoll project. III. Time Factors and Decision Points The extension of MIRSP activities to Enewetak was anticipated, and sufficient funds are included in the FY 1980 presidential budget to include field trips and related efforts there. The critical decision point relates to the possibility of a return of some Bikinians to Eneu Island. If this occurs during the next fiscal year, our program activities would almost certainly need to be expanded to include Bikini before the end of the fiscal year. Funds were not included in the FY 1980 budget to cover this possibility, and manpower would be somewhat overextended at the anticipated 1980 staffing level. The establishment of a joint medical/ radiological "control" atoll would require at least six months of advance planning and budgeting. Cost Estimates The following table lists the current budget and projections through FY 1982 for the MIRSP,as presently committed. It includes the addition of Enewetak to the program in FY 1980, but does not include cost estimates for possible monitoring coverage at Bikini, or for the proposed “control" atoll. We estimate that these ot } C37 ' a5 CFF additions would require supplemental funds of ~$50K and ~$80K respectively, and the authorization to add another professional staff member.