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ENIWETOK RADIOLOGICAL SURVEY
This memorandum provides inforaation regarding current activities on
Eniwetok Atoll.
These activities concern the surveys esseatial to the
cleanup, rehabilitation, and resettlement ef the atoll in connectica
with the announced return of Eniwetok to the Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands (TTPI).
In April 1947 the United Nations formally designated the former Japanese
Pacific Mandates (Eaiwetok included) es Trust Territeries to be adninistered by the United States.
Upon written netification te the U.N.,
Fniwetok was designated a muclear testing site fin December 1947, with
the first test series there, SANDSTONE, being conducted in the spring
of 1948. Prior te SANDSTONE, the Eafwetek people, about 136 In number,
were moved by the United States to Ujelang Atell where they still reside,
although their number has now increased te about 432.
Additional test
series were conducted in the atoll during the years 1951 (GREENHOUSE),
1952 (IVY), 1954 (CASTLE), 1956 (REDWIDG), end 1958 (HARDTACK - PHASE I).
The last of 43 tests was ia July 1958. All tests have been Listed publicly.
Geographic location ef the atoll is shown in Figure 1. Its remoteness
suggests inherent costly operations to accomplish the necessary surveys
and subsequent cleanup.
Figure 2 identifies the islands of the mente!
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On April 18, 1972, High Commissioner Johnston and Ambassador witiions2Ab,
jointly announced the intention of the United States to return matverpk?
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Atoll te the TIPI subject to retention ef some minor residual rights.———— --——~“—~
Subsequently, the Department ef Interior (DOI), Department ef Defense
(DOD), and AEC determined thet a comprehensive and coordinated progran
to survey and clean up Enivetok Atoll muet be undertaken to make Enivetok
habitable. The program was divided imto three phases: (1) Pre-cleanup
Radiological and Fogineering Survey, (2) Cleanup, and (3) Rehabilitation
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