400674 Onan y ae Ee CONFIRMED TO BE UN ce /SADOEDI ReHME -B O ,-(6-74 BYk SCHMIDT, DATE?¢ ar b.€. Gilson [AS The Honorable Stewart L. Udall Secretary of Interior Weshington, D. C. 20240 Dear Btevw: Pursuant to’receipt of your letter of December’7, 1966, and my response of December 20, 1966, the Atomic rgy Coomission in The survey wee conducted if\April-May 19€7. Analysis of the redistion collaboration with the Trust Territories gént s team to the Bikini Atoll to make mea ments of the exte rediation dose rate end to collect sam, les of soil and biote, whe analysis of which would permit an estimate of the hazard of internal dose. meesurenents anc of the coll of the results have been rrepé eam, les is now comrlete and reports Under the guidance of Dr. John R. Totter, Director of the Division ofBiology and Medicine, a meeting is to be held in Mey 1968, which the wembers of the survey team, tc- gether with e@ group of, pert consultante, will review the results and develo; eo recomuendation to the Atomic Enérgy Commission with regard to the feasibility“ from e rediation stand,oOint, of the return of the batives to the Bikini Atoll. When the recodeendetion of the above grou; has bee Coscissicn,I shall communicate with you sgein. ceived by the Cordially, We \P ane ce: = SS ~ GM (2) BMA Dr. ad Jassie & fors® Chairman Secretariat (2) AGMRD DOS on mo N * Lough EMFSB | he | ‘ot wooa 3/26/68 OFFICE p aie . SURNAME p | .cALOugh:bKN..|.! fF are |3A9/68..........1.3/2/68U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE me_o-ze-e$\t it is % Form AEC-318 (Rev. 0-53) A/ a . | | :, Or pos “pl | 3fy/68 ! st =, «BABES