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The 25 February 1975 meeting of agency representatives in Washington
d the meeting with Mr. Mitchell on {9 March 1975 cleared the way for
a plication ofthe final EIS. It was published andfiled with the Council on
Pvironmental Quality on 15 April 1975. The final EIS was nearly identical
to the September 1974 draft, with only a few technical and clerical
corrections, and the addition of Volume IV which contained comments
them.
received on the September 1974 DEIS and DNA’s responses to
DNA requested authorization and funds from Congress for complete
cleanup of physical and radiological hazards in accordance with Case 3 of
the EIS.!70 The EIS description of Case 3 cleanup, which the JCS
subsequently approved as the DNA mission statement,!71.172 was
contained in paragraph 5.5.3.2 as follows:
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Cleanup Actions. The following actions would be taken to clean up the
toll:
, @ Physical hazards would be removedfrom all islands.
e Obstructions to developmentof habitations and agriculture would be
removed.
e Radioactive scrap would be removed from all islands in the atoll.
e Boken, Lujor, and Runit plutonium concentrations greater than 400
pCi/g would be excised and all other concentrations between 400 and
40 pCi/g would be dealt with on an individual basis as described in
AEC Task Group Report. Concentrationsofless than 40 pCi/g would
not be disturbed. Cleanup of plutonium was expected to be
performediteratively until a sufficiently low concentration level well
below 40 pCi/g was attained. Some 79,000 cubic yards of soil were
estimated to be in this removal.
e Plutonium would be removed from the three burial crypts on
Aomon.
@ Unsalvable nonradioactive and noncombustible material would be
disposed of by dumping in the lagoon at selected locations for
forming artificial reefs.
Radioactive materials would be disposed of as discussed in Section
5.4.3.2.3, namely by containment in Lacrosse and, if necessary, Cactus
craters on Runit.!73
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FY 1976 CONCEPT PLANNING: 1974 - 1975
DNA’soriginal concept of implementing the EIS by having the Corps of
Engineers contract out the cleanup had begun encountering cost problems
in September 1974. Lack of detailed plans and cost estimates had led
Congress to decline authorization of DNA’s original request which had
been based on the 1973 Enewetak Engineering Study estimate of $35.5