390 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL that, if they desired such a study, he would recommend that one be preapred.5’ The Council members expressed their desire to have the study. From the DNA viewpoint, the mew survey proposed to the drj. Enewetak by Mr. Deal was urgently needed and essential to Satisfactory completion of the overall project and resettlement. FISSION PRODUCTS DATA BASE SURVEY In December 1978, DOE initiated plans for a final dose assessment to serve as the basis for an information documentwith which the Enewetak people could decide their resettlement options.58 LLL was requested to complete this final dose assessment. It was to be based on: (1) an extensive survey of the dietary habits of the Enewetak people, and (2) the lates, radiological data. The latest data available on fission product levels was the 1972 AEC Radiological Survey (NVO-140). Even though manysoil profile samples had been taken since cleanup began, none had been analyzedfor fission products due to lack of resources. To develop the best possible assessment, a new survey, focusing on fission products, was essential. On 10 January 1979, DOE-NV recommended to DOE-Headquarters in Germantown, Maryland, that DOE-NV begiven a tasking assignmentand that DNA be requested to provide JTG and Service element support to obtain soil samples for the fission products analysis.°9 In a letter of 30 January to Director, DNA, Dr. James Liverman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, DOE, requested an assessment of the support DOD could provide to the survey in the form of soil sampling teams, backhoes and operators, boat transport, and the like.In his 9 February 1979 response, VADM Monroestated that a meeting would be held on |2 February at Field Commandwith representatives from agencies involved in the cleanup project and rehabilitation program to definitize the extentof support required and what could actually be provided by DOD elements, keeping in mind that plans for the wrapup of the project, demobilization and retrograde werefairly well advanced.® VADM Monroe, whochaired the conference, opened by describing his perception of the tasking to prepare the atoll for return to the people and his concern for the impact on the Services of undertaking an additional mission with cleanup yet to be completed: a. The project was an immensely difficult task, undertaken with little certainty about its outcome and dependent on continuation of the remarkable cooperation which had accompanied the efforts to this point. b. This more detailed survey of the northern islands was essential to decisions that DOI and TTPI must make on planting coconuts on the