cee Department of Energy Washington, D.C. 20545 Bil JAN -6 AN 7 17 DEC 31 Igc0 Mr. John E. DeYoung Territorial and International Affairs U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C. 20240 Dear Mr. DeYoung: During the meeting of December 10, 1980, the question was asked what additional costs might be involved if the proposed program plan for education and information pertaining to nuclear radiation and its effects were to be expanded from the peoples identified in Public Law 96-205 to include all of the inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands. Mrs. Ruth Clusen, Assistant Secretary for Environment, indicated that we would provide this information. The staff at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory of Battelle Memorial Institute, who prepared the original program plan at our request, have provided the following cost estimates: 1. As presented in the submitted plan, the cost of the program for the first three years was estimated to be $2,200,000 for the peoples of Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap and Utirik. You may recall that the plan proposed that 3 persons from the populations of each of these atolls, plus 4 other persons, be trained in Majuro and in the United States prior to conducting education/information meetings with the peoples of the 4 atolls. 2. If the program is expanded to include all inhabited atolis the preliminary estimated additional cost is $3,600,000, for a total 3 year estimated cost of $5,800,000. This assumes that 3 trainees are selected from each of the inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands and trained as indicated in the program plan. 3. If it were feasible for the original 16 trainees, primarily from Enewetak, Bikini, Rongelap and Utirik, to present the education/ ~Eee information program to the peoples of all of the other inhabited atolls in the Marshall Islands, the preliminary estimated additional cost is . $2,100,000, for a total 3 year estimated cost of $4,300,000. 3 e _-_ - ope meee me ee ee - eee eee ee -