Cepartment of Energy Washington, D.C. 20545 — 4OBLos = “oe JUN 2.6 1980 Mr. Wallace 0. Green Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Territorial and International Affairs ~“--0.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 20240 ‘: Dear Mr. Green: As requested in your letter of May 20, 1980, to Mrs. Ruth C. Clusen, and per Mr. Copaken's verbal request following a meeting of April 23, 1980, at his office attended by Mr. Copaken and several of his consultants, the Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), and the Department of Interior, which was represented by Mr. John DeYoung, the Department of Energy is pleased to elaborate upon its proposed agreement as appended to my letter of March 25, 1980, to Mrs. Ruth Van Cleve. It was clear during this meeting that Mr. Copaken, perhaps, did not fullv understand the substance of our offer of March 25, 1980, or the reasons behind it. Discussions on April 23, 1980, between our medical personnel (Department of Energy and Brookhaven National Laboratory) and Mr. Copaken's medical consultant, Dr. Robert G. Loeffler, were most helpful in clarify- ing many of these issues, however. It presumably is a consequence of these discussions that Mr. Copaken verbally requested us to amplify upon our offer of March 25, 1980. This amplification basically consists of a detailed idenrification of the laboratory tests to be included under the general term "biochemical screening profile" which was included in paragraph 1 of the proposed agree~ ment appended to my letter of March 25, 1980. The identification of specific tests included under that term is appended to this letter. You will mote that it includes hematological, biochemical and urological analyses, plus other indicators, which would clearly identify, among other things, any evidence of thyroid dysfunction or of blood dyscrasias. Clearly, any possible radiation exposure of the people of Likiep Atoll has been considerably less than that experienced by the people of Rongelap and Utirik, and, at this time, after 26 years of medical follow-up, we have no Treason to believe that diseases which have not appeared among the Rongelap and Utirikpopulations would appear among any other populations in the Marshall Islands as a consequence of any possible lower levels of radiation exposure (e.g., bone cancer or opthalmic effects). ;