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United States Departmentof the Interior
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20240
OCT 22 1979
Dr. Bruce Wachholz
Environment Division
Department of Energy
Washington, D.C.
20543
Dear Dr. Wachholz:
This Department has been requested by the people of
Enewetak, through their legal counsel, Mr. Theodore
Mitchell, Micronesian Legal Services Corporation to consider
at this time the agricultural redevelopment of Engebi Island
and reestablishment of a community on that island for the
Engebi people.
As you know, the revised Environmental
Impact Statement of 1975, as well as the revised Master Plan
for the Enewetak Resettlement and Rehabilitation Progran,
had excluded the use of Engebi Island.
This request is under study within the Department.
It
would be extremely helpful if the Department of Energy could
provide us with an estimate of the period of time which must
elapse before exposure levels on Engebi
applicable exposure limits.
island would meet
Sincerely yours,
Juss. Ve. Ch
Mrs. Ruth G. Van Cleve
Director
Office of Territorial Affairs
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