UNITED STATS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU Pacific Supervisory Office P. 0. Box 3650 Honolulu 11, Hawaii April 21, 1958 Commander Joint Task Force SEVEN APO 437 San Francisco, Calif. (Attn: Major Frank Ritchie, RADSAFE) Dear Sir: In response to a telephone request from a Captain Matt of your organization, may we inform you that the Weather Bureau has no monitoring capabilitiesfor radioactive fallout in the Hawaiian - Islands. We have at three stations in Hawaii; namely, Honolulu, Hilo and Lihue, the "fly paper type of collection which the Weather Bureau performs for the AEC. exposes the paper. The Weather Bureau, in this instance, merely All analyses and measurements are made by AEC and, therefore, any data which you require from these "fly paper" exposures would have to be obtained from the AEC, not the Weather Bureat. Very truly yours, ; FoNecelanne H. Dean Parry Meteorologist Acting in HDP: ame ORY BEST AVAILABLE C ge