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ERDA's SUGGESTED RESPONSE AND/OR COMMENTS (Continued)
The DO! effort during the 1974-75 period has been
development of a Bikini Master Plan that contains plans
for Phase II housing construction to begin sometime
tin the future.
This planning was stopped awaiting
advice from ERDA.
At a meeting in January 1975, with DOI and Trust
Territory representatives and others, ERDA staff
agreed to evaluate preliminary plans for Phase II
‘ housing construction provided by Trust Territory.
Additional field work at Bikini Atol! was needed to
develop more precise information on external
radiation in areas identified in the plan for
additional housing construction and to update
calculations of total radiation doses for future
residents of Bikini and Eneu Islands.
An important
feature of these calculations would be forecast
of doses received at future times when locally grown
foods would come to be a major part of the diet.
These
foods, not yet available in any quantity, would
include new items not known to have been grown in the
atoll in the past.
Dub AKCHIVES
A detailed survey of external gamma radiation levels
on Bikini and Eneu Islands was conducted by ERDA and
ERDA contractor ground monitors in June 1975 after
support for an aerial survey from DOD could not be
obtained.
Responding to pressures from DOI and Trust
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