a muclear contamination problem, it is chemical problem somewhat different from what we ordinarily deal with... Co Lt. Col, Udick Mr. Growe is the Program Manager for SAMTEC for. our team in here. He is the man that you get in touch with. He deals with all the tenants in-Whatever category program we have. Congressman Balos My question is connected to the PACE Program here. I still don't understand and I want to find out why. Eniwetok was selected or chosen for this program. | Lt. Col. Circeo Eniwetok was choseri because Eniwetok has large craters. Bikini also has large craters. We are tyring to understand what caused the crater size over here both in Eniwetok and Bikini. If you like, I could go into further detail. We have some materials and slides which I think are necessary for complete explanation and understanding. We essentially looked all over the world for sites. The first place we looked was the United States because it would be the cheapest place to conduct such a test. We essentially investigated this for two years with some of the top scientist and geologist in the United States and it was determined that it was necessary to come out here in order to conduct this. program even though the cost would _ probably be ten times more than it would cost to conduct this program in the United States. Right now we have even larger explosive programs being conducted in the United States, in order to go along with the program out here. I can go into much more detail later on if you like. Last night the PACE people met with Chip and Ted for 2 hours. We went over the explanation of the program for them and I think they are fairly well informed of the reason for our coming out here. I will be happy to discuss with you later. Congressman Balos Well the reason I was asking this question is that I think there are islands like Johnston and Wake Islands that are very similar in geology to Eniwetok. Lt. Col, Circeo Later on this afternoon if possible if you are available, I would like to meet and discuss with you this. Dennis Olsen Lt. Col. Circeo 90029949 I have a question regarding tke Eniwetok site selection. . When did your two years search for a possible site the PACE program end? Well we started in about 1967 to 1969. A report was for written around January 1970, on the geology of Eniwetok -24-