314 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL The Director, DNA requested that DOE examine thepossibility of not cleaning Boken and Lujor to 160 pCi/g and identifying patterns ofliving that could be adopted for those islands other than quarantine. DOE representatives agreed to have this done. Dr. W. P. Wood, of EPA’s Radiation Programs andits representative at the conference, pointed out that DOE/DOD acceptance of the 40-80-160 pCi/g criteria should not imply EPA approval and that, once the plan for soil removal was established, EPA would desire to examine that plan. The Director, DNA stated that he understood that there was no EPA blessing, but he also pointed out that Enewetak really did not come under the draft EPA guidelines. The Director, DNA decided to accept the criteria recommendedby the Bair Committee and DOE asthe standards for contaminatedsoil cleanup. This acceptance was contingent upon the Bair Committee and DOE developing more precisely the status of islands (e.g., Boken or Lujor) which might end up being cleaned to below 400 pCi/g, but not down to the 160 pCi/g criteria recommended by the Bair Committee for food-gathering islands. 104 The criterion for subsurface contamination was not discussed at the conference. That criterion, OPLAN Condition D, was the most stringent and difficult to achieve. Subsurface concentrations of transuranics were not to exceed 160 pCi/g averaged over one-sixteenth hectare on anyisland to be used by the dri-Enewetak. NORTHERN ISLAND RESIDENCE DECISION The issue of possible residence on one or moreofthe northernislands was raised during the discussion on soil cleanup criteria because the new criteria were based on a dose assessment model which assumedsoil contamination levels that would occur only in the northern islands. The dose assessmentindicated that living on islands having surface transuranic levels which averaged 40 pCi/g, growing crops on islands which averaged 80 pCi/g, and visiting islands which averaged 160 pCi/g could result in a dose of about 13 millirads for transuranics alone, over four times the proposed new EPA guideline of 3 millirads per year for the U.S. Doses from strontium and cesium in the drinking water, coconuts, and other local food were not considered since it was assumed that no one would be permitted to live on Enjebi until after those elements decayed to acceptable levels. By this time, everyone was awareof the Bikini cleanup and resettlement problems. Mr. McCraw, of DOE, stated that Bikini was typical of what could happen in the Marshall Islands. Bikini had suffered a drought and y