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checks be made of the people and environment to assure that EXPOsure
criteria were not being approached or exceeded.
ENEWETAK ATOLL MASTER PLAN: MAY-NOVEMBER 1973
The Governmentagencies realized the importance of having the dy.
Enewetak involved in every step of cleanup and rehabilitation of the;
homeland. On 20-23 February 1973 (the week after field work on the
NVO-140 was completed), representatives from DNA, DOI, and AEC met
in Honolulu with dri-Enewetak community council members, their
attorney, and the Marshall Islands District Administrator to brief them on
results of the recent surveys and to discuss their desires. The parties me
again at Majuro, the Marshall Islands District Center, on 2-4 May 1973,
this time with representatives of the TTPI. At this meeting, the idea of 4
Master Plan for rehabilitation and resettlement was proposed to provide
information for the DEIS and for funding estimates. The Master Plan was
to be developed by the TTPI, based on the expected results of the cleanup
project and the desires of the dri-Enewetak. Conferees proposed thatthe
people elect a Planning Council to work with TTPI in developing the
Master Plan and with DNA in planning the cleanupproject.67
The TTPI contracted with H&N to develop the Enewetak Master Plan,
A survey team consisting of Mr. Carleton Hawpe, TTPI architectural
consultant under contract to H&N, Mr. John Stewart, of AEC, and Mr.
Ken Marsh, of LLL, visited Ujelang Atoll in July 1973 to coordinate with
the Enewetak Planning Council. Mr. Hawpe was engaged by H&Natthe
request of the dri-Enewetak. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in the
Marshall Islands, who had made his home in Majuro, and was well liked
and fluent in Marshallese. Together, they covered all aspects of
rehabilitation, resettlement, and developmentofthe atoll. This survey;
together with results of the Enewetak Engineering Survey, provided a
basis for the first draft of the Master Plan, which was issued in November
1973.
Since the AEC’s Radiological Survey Report had not yet been
completed, the draft Master Plan was based on certain assumptions
derived from preliminary results of that survey. Upon issuanceofthe final
Enewetak Radiological Survey Report, some of the assumptions proved
not to be valid. Key among these was the draft Master Plan’s assumption
that Enewetak Atoll could be sufficiently cleaned ofall radiological hazards
so that Enjebi would be safe for habitation.69 These changes in the
radiological dose estimates and predictions required that the Master Plan
be revised and republished in January 1975. Thus, the final Master Plan
called for all residence to be on the southern islands, whereas the draft
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