— 538 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL members, 16 Municipal Council members, 11 alabs, and their attorney Mr. Mitchell. The first session was disrupted when the dri-Enewetak Were informed by ERSP that it now appeared that the Joint Task Group woujg be able to clean Enjebi to residential levels of transuranics (40 pCi/g). This appeared to change the entire purpose of the conferenceso far as the dri. Enewetak were concerned. They immediately began asking questions about the safety of living on Enjebi as soon as cleanup was complete. Ar their request, a tour of the southwest islands was cancelled so that they might tour Enjebi instead. While the dri-Enewetak spent the next day touring the northern islands, Mr. Mitchell was meeting with the U\S. Government representatives to discuss coconut planting. 70 The DOE representative, Mr. Deal, described the Bikini problem with fission products, emphasizing that DOE did not want a similar problem at Enewetak. He was advised that the Bikini report would be available for review in January or February 1979 but that detailed current data on Enewetak was not available to determine the potential hazards of residence or planting on the northern islands. It would require several months to conducta fission products survey to provide complete data for such determinations. Meanwhile, based on data from the 1972 survey, DOE had recommended against planting those islands in the near future, Mr. Deal did not wish to discuss the possibility with the dri-Enewetak./! After much further discussion, he was persuaded to attempt to explain to the people those factors which should be considered in any planting decision for the northern islands, such as life-style and potential health hazards, 72 On the following day, the conferees met again to allow Mr. Deal to explain the radiological factors involved in planting the northern islands. The people’s questions, however, pertained almost entirely to the hazards of living on the northern islands. He reminded them that all the data calculations and dose estimates that had been presented to them in September 1974 showed thatliving on Enjebi would subject them to dose rates exceeding the U.S. Federal standards. It was at this point that the driEnewetak requested thata fission products survey be made and theresults be presented to them by 1 June 1979.73 Follow-on actions to bring the fission products data base survey in the northern islands to reality are described in Chapter 7. NORTHERN ISLAND PLANTING DECISION: 1979 The results of the new fission products survey of the northern islands were made available in July 1979. The survey results were incorporated by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory into a preliminary dose reassessment,