18. Dennis Olsen Are you aware of any attempt to tender the Environmetal Impact Statement directly to the Eniwetok people? Lt. Col. Circeo I don't think so, I just don't know. The Counsel of Environmental Quality send the reports out to agencies concerned, I am not sure if they~send one to the Trust Territory Government or not although we brought one out for them. Anybody is free to comment on the Environmental Impact Statement. Now after 45 days, I think it is, we get all the comments and we put out the final statement. draft right now. Roger Ray This is just a It is not a normal thing for the agency of the Department of Defense to deal directly with the Trust Territory. Normally that cross-over is made at departmental level. I am not sure that you have a complete picture when you ask whether DNA or the project people dealt directly with the Trust Territory. The normal channel would be between the Department of Defense and the Department of Interior. I don't think it is fair to ask Col. Circeo the negative question. Dennis Olsen I just want to get some idea of the actual sequence. When did the facts become known and discovered within the Trust Territory? Roger Ray We just have no way of knowing it. Lt. Col. Circeo But we did send copies to Interior. Dennis Olsen In early April? Lt. Col. Circeo I assume the 18th of April. Peter T. Coleman I have the regulations that we submit these under if you would like to read it. The return of Eniwetok is actually something that has been negotiated for several years. I have been Deputy © High Commissioner for 3 years now and I know that the District Administrator of Marshalls, Mr. Heine and himself made representation to the headquarters several years back as to when Eniwetok was going to be returned. When the decision was finally made in the office cf the President and the date was set, we were notified that certain programs that had to be implemented by that date. Congressman Balos Is kind of sad for these Eniwetokese people to come here and see what happened to their islands. I was wondering why they were not informed of this or consulted about this 9002561 -2?6-