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ENINETOK SURVEY
Your memorandum of September 15, subject as above, has been read with
great interest.
The plans for the survey, analysis, and assessment
have been formulated by the September 19-20 meeting along the lines
you have sugrested, Your staff at this meeting made known the major
points you discussed, and, where possible, these points were incorporated
into the planning effort. Further, your draft plan for the survey was
timely, well conceived, and provided the Nevada Operations Office with
the basis upon which to mount the field effort.
Anong other things discussed at the September 19-20 meeting was the
organization for the conduct of the survey. This organization reflects
my message to Mr. Gates of September 13 that NV was to plan, organize,
and conduct the radiological ficld survey of Eniwetok, This directive
was quite explicit in ¢civing NV the leading role in the field effort
including the authority to select personnel to accomplish the task.
Anticipating this directive, Mi. Gates on Aucust 25, 1972, requested
that Dr. Datzel furnish NV with an individwal who could act as the
technical director for the survey.
Dr. W. E. Nerwik as this individual.
Dr. Batzel subsequently assigned
At no time have Mr. Gates or I, explicitly or implicitly, assigned LLL
or any other laboratory the leading technical role in this survey.
This role remains with AV and I contemplate no change. This, in my
view, is the best approach for this field effort to take in order to
achieve the objectivity and credibility of data gatherinc you address
in parasraphs 2 and 3 of your merorandim. In short, paracraph 4 of that
memorandum misstates a fact in that no laboratory has been assigned the
lead technical role for the cleanup or survey of Eniwetck.
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Form AEC-318 (Rev. 9-53) AECM 0240
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1963 M-325-407