Ray: Here are those two books. (Background voices not clear. Bikini and Enewetak. Bill Robinson suggested it should be mentioned that the actual work was done before then. Alice said that it might be better to say again.) Buck: Another question. Marshallese: The first population to be returned to their atoll, if I understand correctly, was the people of Utrik. So I am asking why information regarding their atoll wasn't prepared first. They were the first to be returned to their atoll. Ray: Well, there was work, was survey work done at that time before the resettlement of Utrik and there has been a continuous survey effort at both Rongelap and Utrik since the 1950s. There was a great deal of information that lead to decisions and recommendations being given to the people. It was only after we had done the Bikini and Enewetak booklets and found them so useful that we felt that it was important to do this here. The information has flowed continuously but never in one concise form before for Utrik and Rongelap. I can't really explain that, except to say that the people who were making the decisions had the information. We now recognize, certainly, that it would have been better, that is why we have done this, recognizing that it would have been better had there been a more complete, more continuous communication. ‘Marshallese: I feel that there are other atolls that we would be considered accurately as part of the northern area of the Marshalls and I don't see them named in this map. (and) So the reason that they do not appear in this book (is this), does this mean that they have not been significantly contaminated, or what is the reason that they are not? Ray: That is the correct answer. At the time of the, at the time these islands and atolls were selected for survey a careful study was made of what had occurred in the past and it was concluded that these were the ones none eB + d acy, aRERES ce