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"The movement of native personnel, household goods, and livestock
will be accomplished by LST, which will depart the construction site
at RONGELAP approximately 10 days prior to completion of construction, travel to MAJURO and EBEYE for cargo and native passengers, ;
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and return to RONGELAP bythe end of the construction period.
"Lt Col R. Schnittke and Dr. Robert Conard are scheduled to arrive °
at approximately 1700 hours this date; however, Messrs. Howell,
Johnson, Merrill, and Dunlap will return to ENIWETOK immediately
following this meeting. ‘They may be contacted at ENIWETOKfor any
additional information required.
The meeting was adjourned at 1500
hours."
By 1 November 1956 the post Redwing radiological survey of RONGELAP and adjacent atolls to determine whether the RONGELAP people could
be safely returned to their former home was completed.
The data from this
survey were being analyzed and evaluated, from which the Atomic Energy
Commission would base its decision as to whether or not the return of the
RONGELAP people could be accomplished.
The Director of Military Appli-
cation, AEC, took up the matter of funding the project with the Chief of Naval
Operations.
Arrangements had been previously established which assigned
primary responsibility to CINCPACFLT and whichdirected CJTF SEVEN to
allocate funds to the AEC for the work involved.
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