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Report of the Advisory Group on Cleanup of Enewetak Atoll

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The Advisory Group on Cleanup of Enewetak Atoll met at the Nevada
Operations Office in Las Vegas on April 13 and 14, 1978.

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W. L. Templeton, R. 0. Gilbert, C. W. Francis, J. W. Healy, B. W.

Wachholz, and W. J. Bair.

Among the others present were T. McCraw,

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Operations Office, representing the Department of Energy; General Tate
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The meeting was organized by Tommy McCraw and the agenda developed in
consultation with W. J. Bair, chairman.

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The meeting centered around two questions pertaining to cleanup of

the Enewetak Atoll.

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The committee was asked to:

review the most recent draft of "Assessment of Potential Doses to
Populations from the Transuranic Radionuclides at Enewetak Atoll"
by W. Robison, W. Phillips

and V. Noshkin.

The doses estimated

in this report are considerably greater than those in the Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) upon which the cleanup criteria of 40 and
400 pCi/g soil were established.
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advise on the application of proposed EPA transuranic standards to
the Eneveta& cleanup operation.

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