additional contaminated debris is discovered in the course of cleanup
and rehabilitation operations, it too should be removed.

Specifically

included in this recommendation are the three locations on SALLY and
one on ELMER where contaminated debris is known to be buried.

This

debris should be exhumed and removed.
The quarantine of YVONNE, put into effect by the Air Force on
May 26, 1972, should be continued in effect. until the cleanup of
plutonium contamination on that island has been compleved.

Should

any Enewetak people returnto the Atoll before cleanup is begun
or before completion, an authority responsible for enforcement
of the quarantine should be identified and should be in residence
in. the Atoll when people return.
The distribution of plutonium contamination on YVONNE is sufficiently
complex that specific recommendations for cleanup cannot be presented.

It is expected that the true picture of this contamination will unfold
as the decontamination effort proceeds. The area observed to have
pieces of plutonium and the highest soil concentrations is the
interior and shoreline of the island beginning at a line drawn
from the ocean reef to lagoon 60 meters north of the tower (Hardtack
Station 1310)

to CACTUS Crater.

See Fig.

152, page II-17, Appendix IT.

Presented are some of the requirements and objectives that will
establish a background from which plans can be made for recovery of
plutonium on YVONNE.
A team of experts should be assembled who can make and interpret
field radiation and radioactivity measurements, advise on cleanup

actions envolving plutonium and other radionuclides, and provide
"necessary health physics support including protection of workers,
decontamination of workers and equipment, and packaging and
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