299 soil Cleaner Planning ned indefinitely because of subsurface contamination, there was quar nue n to clean surface contamination. Some jrtle Fens® gsals to store contaminated soil from round peRunil. not clean Runit, and require that . ely. The DNA General Counsel supported discussions revolved other islands on the Runit be quarantined the proposals on the ndelint’ i the dri-Enewetak already had appeared to accept the loss of basis ost of the Field Command staff opposed the proposals since they Runt, -onform to the EIS requirements and a substantial investment and did 10"ready had been directed toward crater containment. The Director, aN ecided that: (1) soil contaminated to levels greater than 400 pCi/g D. ; islands other than Runit and all contaminated debris would be mu ced and contained in the crater, (2) lower level contaminated soit than Runit would be encapsulated within available islands ottees ro and other optimum crater design, and (3) Runit would be cleaned as much as possible with priority to highest level “hot spots, dependent on aqilability of resources, time and crater capacity remaining. Other matters discussed at the conference included the need for soil cleanup criteria. the possibility of cleaning Aomon, Bijire, and Lojwa to residential levels as an alternative to Enjebi, and whether amendments to che EIS might be required if significant deviations were made from its provisions. 76 While these discussions served to focus future analysis and plinning, all of the DNA leadership realized that more work would still have to be done to allow the key questions of ‘‘which islands,”” “in which priority.” and “to what level’ to be answered. The 1) April conference served to confirm for the Director, DNA the need to bring all organizations with an interest in Enewetak together to tearn of the results to date, hear all of the information available, consider the alternatives, and have the opportunity to make recommendations on cleanup decisions. Furthermore, DOE had advised that its data would be available to Field Command in time to support such a major policy conference in early May 1978. Several other actions pertinent to the May conference took place in April 1978. On 21 April 1978, Mr. Theodore Mitchell, of MLSC, the Enewetak people’s attorney, advised Field Command of the results of his 2-day conference with the dri-Enewetak council at Ujelang. Their response to the idea of living on Enjebi was rather low key. They would only consider it if they could live there safely. The possibility of residence on the Aomon-Biyire-Lojwa complex was complicated by ownership disputes between the dri-Enjebi and the dri-Enewetak. They were quite safisfied with the current plan of mixed residence of dri-Enewetak and dri-Enjebi on the three southern islands. 77 On 26 April 1978, DOE advised of a related complication. The Bikinians were going to be removed from their atoll because of disturbingly high