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OATE

REPLY TO
ATTN OF.
SUBJECT

TO

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

dctober 15, 1982

memorandum

EP-32

ACRIO

Cost per Person for DOE Medical Services in the Marshall Islands
D. E. Patterson, Director
Office of Operational Safety, EP-32
Per your request re the above subject, the attached table is the current
number of persons seen by the Brookhaven medical teams, together with their
atoll of residence and their general population category (e.g., exposed,

children of exposed, controls, etc.).

The Bikinians are those who were removed from Bikini Island in 1978, together
with some family members. The other categories are self-explanatory.
It is difficult to provide an accurate cost for this activity because the
ship which is contracted for this purpose provides transportation and logistical and programmatic support not only for the medical program, but also
for the environmental studies and the radiological monitoring activities;
therefore, the cost of the ship includes support for multiple program elements.
To give you an estimate of the range of cost per person, costs will be
calculated in two ways: assuming that the entire cost of the ship is related to the medical program (which would be a gross overestimate), and
assuming that one-third the cost of the ship is related to the medical
program (roughly based upon the number of trips supporting the medical
program compared to the total number of trips for all purposes).

If the total cost of the ship is included, the entire medical program support
is:

82

Est. FY 83

$2,071,000

$2,174,000

The cost per person, then, is:

82

Est. FY 83

$1,409

$1,479

If one-third of the ship cost is apportioned to support of the medical program,
the entire medical program support is:

FY 82

Est. FY 83

$1,513,667

$1,624,667

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