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Dr. Hugh Pratt
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Associated Universities, Inc.
Medical Department
Upton, L.I., N.Y.
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YOUR LETTER OF DECEMBER 1, 1978
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Having the benefit of your thoughts on the feasibility of carrying a
helicopter aboard Liktanur II was much appreciated.
I concur with
your recommendations and have already acted upon them.
Should future
DOE program needs dictate the need for a helicopter we will again
review the matter.
However, for now it is in abeyance.
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As to the long range medical program, we are keenly interested to Know
its ultimate scope and direction.
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,
and Rehabilitation work is finished
stand alone,
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basis after the Cleanup
(April 1980).
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Present planning is
that the runway will remain.
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 requirements may reasonably be assumed to be a by-product of
those decisions.
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I'd 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.
PASO will
assign a senior staff member
(Harry Brown)
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The BNL Party Chief will of course have complete control
of the medical program.
The DOE representative will interface with
NW. S. Oceanography to insure that all necessary support is provided in
support of the medical program.
Depending on many factors involved in
this mission, DOE may designate a representative to be aboard future
Mr.
Brown's assignment to this initial
has been coordinated and concurred in by Mr.
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trip on Liktanur II
Gates, and Mr. Ray in
Nevada, and through Mr. Ray with Dr. Weyzen.
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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
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to embark on the January
voyage of Liktanur II as DOE Representative.
the voyage.
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