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Dear Hugh:
YOUR LETTER OF DECEMBER 1,
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Having the benefit of your thoughts on the feasibility of carrying a
JI concur with
helicopter aboard Liktanur II was much appreciated.
Should future
your recommendations and have already acted upon them.
DOE program needs dictate the need for a helicopter we will again
However, for now it is in abeyance.
review the matter.
As to the long range medical program,
its ultimate scope and direction.
we are keenly interested to know
You, I'm sure, will be interested to
know that DOE plans to keep the Mid-Pacific Marine Laboratory on
Enewetak operating on a full time, stand alone, basis after the Cleanup
and Rehabilitation work is finished (April 1980).
that the runway will remain.
Present planning is
Given these factors we envision a good
basic arrangement for both the medical and environmental work that
Surely must continue at that atoll for many years to come.
As you said
in your letter, a huge factor in our mutual planning for the future will
be final decisions on Bikini and Enewetak resettlements.
Logistical
Support’ reguirements may reasonably be assumed to be a by-product of
those decisions.
res like to turn now to the DOE Research Vessel Liktanur II and its use
in support of our Pacific programs.
Particularly I want to touch on
the relationships between DOE organizations and U. S.
Oceanography,
another subject which obviously causes you some concern.
assign a
senior staff member
(Harry Brown)
to embark on
voyage of Liktanur II as DOE Representative.
PASO will
the January
We will make every effort
to insure that this first voyage with U. S$. Oceanography is successful
and to that end, Harry will assume administrative responsibility for
the voyage.
The BNL Party Chief will of course have complete control
of the medical program.
U.
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The DOE representative will interface with
Océanography to insure that all necessary support is provided in
Support of the medical program.
this mission,
voyages.
Mr.
Depending on many factors involved in
DOE may designate a representative to be aboard future
Brown's assignment to this initial trip on Liktanur II
has been coordinated and concurred in by Mr. Gates, and Mr. Ray in
Nevada, and through Mr.
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