- eer ee te ON hee — Honorable Sidney R. Yates Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Chairman: As promised in my progress report of July 3, 1979, on Enewetak Rehabilitation and Resettlement Project to your Committee, I am submitting this followup report on recent developments. The Department of Energy during March and April of this year conducted a new soil survey of Engebi Island and other northern islands of Enewetak Atoll, and the results were analyzed by the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. entitled, A draft report "Preliminary Reassesment of the Potential Radio- logical Doses for Residents Resettling Enewetak Atoll" was issued by DOE on July 23, 1979. This preliminary report has not yet been released because survey results on one additional asTees AwWO ALL OF THE 15bNKOS ta THE NORTHWEST northesm island, Lujor,, still have to be factored into the dose calculations. It is not expected that the additional information will substantially alter the FOR TIE LHESTVLES$ Comnettle yowhvER . expasure estimates,| Copies of the final reassessment report will be provided to the Committee as soon as it is released by the Department of Energy.