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RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL

personnel and materiel, phasedown of base support services, ang to

develop the text for the basic plan. It was decided to issue the

demobilization plan as an annex to the basic cleanup project operations
plan. It was designated Annex Y to OPLAN 600-77.

During the conference, it became apparent that there would be some life

support and base support facilities which could not be demobilized unpj

such time as supported forces no longer required their use and which
would require time to demobilize after the last of the cleanup forces
departed. For example, the billets and food service facilities, which were

required to house and feed 200 troops through the night before they

departed, could not be dismantled and disposed of overnight. The base

support contractor, H&N-Pacific Test Division (H&N-PTD), wouig
require time to demobilize these remaining supportfacilities. This effort,

referred to as the contractor’s ‘‘rollup,’’ was not considered part of the

cleanup project since it could not be accomplished until after the JTG
departed. It was agreed that separate plans would be preparedfor the rollup
effort.
It was decided that Lojwa Camp would be inactivated about 1 October

1979 and that all personnel, including those working on Runit, would be
billeted on Enewetak. TTPI had requirements for most of the Lojwa Camp

electrical distribution system, and the dri-Enewetak wanted the materials
from the temporary buildings which the JTG had planned to raze and

burn. It was agreed that the JTG would removeall nonexcess government
property from Lojwa Camp,after which TTPI and the dri-Enewetak would
complete the cleanup of the camp in exchangefor the remaining building

materials. Similar exchanges of cleanup work for equipment were madefor
the power plant and telephone exchange at Enewetak Camp.

It was decided that the Enewetak dining hall (Building 36) would be

phased downincrementally as the population decreased. This would allow
the rehabilitation contractor to dismantle sections of the building for
materials required to complete the community center and to clearthesite

for a house. Industrial laundry support would be acquired from Kwajalein
Missile Range beginning in November 1979 to permit removal of the
Enewetak Camp laundry from the site where two houses were to be
constructed.

The procedures being used by Field Command for radiological

monitoring and decontamination at Johnston Atoll were adopted for all

materiel shipped from Enewetak in order to insure that no contaminated

items were released for uncontrolled use. Detailed procedures were
developed for screening, redistribution, and disposition of property

(Figure 9-2).

Oneofthe uncertainties of planning for demobilization was the time it

would take to complete soil cleanup, which had begun on Enjebi only 3

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