Sol 319 | Cleanup Planning ISLAND PRIORITY DECISION to what ext issue was to decide which islands would be cleaned and i order to provide the most effective use of resources to the levels v penefit of the people. As in previous discussions, the critical greatest ations centered on accomplishing a full Case 3 cleanup or cleaning conside® residential status and leaving undone some of the original tasks ener the reduction of concentration on Lujor or Runit.! 10 of uN ring the conference deliberation of this issue, the relative merits the AEC Task Group recommendations, the EIS mission statement, and he Bair Committee recommendations were discussed at length. One sinant position, which was supported by Field Command, was that the NEC Task Group recommendations and EIS Case 3 cleanup were stended to clean up the worst hazards first, the bits of plutonium and vangenttations over 400 pCi/g on Runit, Aomon, Boken, and Lujor, to eure that people would not be exposed to them during the thousands of cours after the cleanup was completed. The proponents of this position were skeptical that, should any of these islands not be cleaned to preseribed levels, the people would abide by any quarantine placed or w remaining in effect indefinitely. The dominant counterposition was that the resources should be used to clean Enjebi to provide moreresidential land for a growing population and xa restore the traditional homeislandofthe dri-Enjebi. Proponentsof this position, which included some Field Commandstaff members,considered sone of the EIS mission, such as the cleanup of Runit, to be peripheral ~ and not the best use of resources. They urged that an attempt be made to clean Enjebi to as near residential level as possible on the assumption that the 40 pCi/g criteria need not be absolute or that plowing might prove effective and acceptable.!!! This position had its foundation in the fact that the Bair Committee recommendations were based on 6 years’ additional information and understanding of the problems considered by the AEC Tusk Group and that the cleanup effort and money should be spent to permit more beneficial use of the islands by the people. With the information now known about Runit contamination levels and the VY subsurface ‘“‘marble cake’’ effect there, coupled with the fact that the «llowed upperlevel criteria had been changed by the Bair Committee, it no langer appeared to make good sense to spend a great effort on Runit with the possibility of never reaching levels which would make that island usuble for any purpose. The choice between these two principal alternatives raised the question of which would have more beneficial results: cleaning a residence island which possibly could not be used until strontium and cesium levels in its soland water dropped; or cleaning of Lujor, Boken, and—to a degree— —__ ——