L ng Soil Cleanup Planni riority as the Lujor and Boken surveys.32 In retrospect, in ri questions about the cleanup of Runit, Mr. Ray reinforce and serious of Army engineers and Field Command staff planners rega position cleanup. i.e., it should be accomplished last so that the lit Rune "es available could be used to assure completion of cleanup o lue to th ee islands specified in the EIS which would be of most vaio ns disci at er ed id r . t, in ns he ak th or co mb ot et wi pp s co ew su Hi On cing the | jaler in this chapter, eventually proved decisive in convin d, who were relatively ne leaders at Headquarters and Field Comman s ce us to an attempt to clean | the project, not to devote precio resour mpt could . before the other islands were complete Such an atte ing Runit in subsequent C proven futile, resulted in recontaminat containment operations, and used all available resources without le: the people any other currently contaminated islands in a usable cond. On 12 September 1977, BG Tate and COL Treat traveled to Washir a to discuss the cleanup project with DNA leadership and particip discussions at ERDA headquarters the following day. The prog characterization of Runit was discussed with VADM Monroe, bility to ide stressed that it was ERDA’s routine responsi zation of Runit mus contaminated soil for removal and that characteri y ar in rd d ao program requiring addil he permitte to evolve into an extr DNA funding. The Director also observed that an addendum to th mizht be needed if there were major differences between the OP criteria and the EIS criteria for soil cleanup.33 Other issues in the soil cleanup criteria were brought to DNA’s atte in the discussions at ERDA headquarters on 13 September 1977. previously had received oral assurance from EPA that the proposed EPA guidelines for all transuranic contamination —currently under re in draft form by various organizations of the Government —woulk apply to Enewetak, then or in the future. On [3 September 1977, E advised DNA that it would ask EPA for written assurance that guidelines would not apply. ERDA also advised DNA—for the first time—that the AEC guide were intended to apply to all transuranics and not just the Pu-23° identified in the AEC Task Group Report. The AEC had concludec potential dose to people at Enewetak via inhalation was low for all | patterns investiaged,34 and the only significant contributors to the inhalation dose were Pu-239 and Pu-240.35 Other transuranic isot vg.. Pu-238 and americium (Am-240), were considered insignii based on concentrations which had been measured in Enewetak during the AEC Radiological Survey in 1972 and comparisons maximum permissible concentrations in air in use in the United Stal The dri-Enewetak, however, had expressed concern over Am-24] an: