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The choice of whetherto ask for more Service personel and equipment
aes xtend the project. Certainly one consideration would be the impact
or One Rehabilitation Program if the cleanup project were extended 6
on - It might be that the Departmentof the Interior (DOT could not
rr lete construction on Enewetak because the JTG wasstill using the
vom as an active base camp. Mr. Gilmore, of Holmes & Narver,
Moaded that he could not estimate the impact because the scope of
re pilitation work still was being changed by the dri-Enewetak Planning
Council He asked whether the extent of soil cleanup would be determined
py the time and resources available or whether the time and resources
should be determined by the amount ofsoil that had to be removed. The
Director, DNA respondedthat he did not consider either approach as an
absolutely immutable one. Hestill was not convinced thatavailable time
and resources could not produce a cleanup which metall criteria, and he
would make any decisions on compromises should they be necessary.
The possibility of increased radiological safety problems from bulk haul
were discussed at length. It was pointed out that contaminated soil
handling had been carried out on the sameislands for the last 6 months
and that all detection measuresutilized had failed to identify any problem.
Apparently, resuspended plutonium, if it did exist, existed in such reduced
quantities that it could not be detected. Colonel! Darrell McIndoe, USAF,
Director of AFRRI, and the senior memberof the Enewetak Radiological
Sulety Audit and Inspection Team (RSAIT), expressed his belief that the
plutonium resuspension problem would not be any greater with the bulkhaul procedure if normal engineering procedures and_ radiological
protection measures were followed. Mr. Bruce Church, DOE-NV, pointed
out that a considerable amount of 500 pCi/g soil had been excised in the
pilot soil removal project. By the time it had been windrowed, loaded on
trucks, offloaded at the beach, and reloaded on trucks for transport to
Runit, the concentrations were only about 100 pCi/g. He also remarked
that the radiological exposure for a person working on an island for 6
months or even a year was completely different than that for a person who
resided there for a lifetime. He felt that the radiation protection practices in
force at Enewetak were far more than adequate for the actual radiological
situation,
The Navy representatives proposed that one LCU and one LCM-8 be
modified and tested for 30 days after which, depending on test results,
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