Acting Administrator o -2- Environmental Surveillance - In order to assess the potenttlal hazards to the health and safety of the people of the Marshalls, ERDA cunducts lone term monitoring ¢f radioactivity in soils, waters, and biota that were exposed during nuclear testing. o o Medical Surveillance - For 20 years BNL personnel have been concerned with Marshallese who as a result of nuclear testing were exposed to fallout, Resettlement Research - This is a recent addition to the ERTA program, It is intended to provide ~RDA and others with important iniformation on how the returning Marshallese, both at Bikini and ECnewetak, can live safely and in harmony with a contam nated envircnment., o ERDA Research Interests - The nucle:.r testing programs provided an opportunity to scientifically study the mechanisms of migration, transfer uptake, and removal of long-lived radio-= nuclid.:s within these ecosystems, !nfocmation rrom such researih is transferrable to considerations of nuciear facili‘:ieas in similar environments. © o Non-Nuclear Research = For 22 years ERDA and AEC have operated the Laboratory at znewetak, The recent three volume publication (VO 623-1, 1976) shows that much good sciences was accomp. ished at nominal cost. Approcimately a thousand investigators with other support performed studies of this atoll. Resear h Vessel + An Army Landing Crift-Utility vessel in eupport of ERDA's research programs in the Marshalls is based at Kwajalein is funded by BER. In the Spring of 1975 I assipned NVO the task of coordinating our activities in the Marshalls. Assigned functions include a liaison with other acientista and agencies having responsibilities in this area, to review and comment on new research proposals and publica. tions and to recommend changes in direction and levels of research efforts, However, these functions did not include either policy or program decisions which are a Headquarters' responsibility. This action plans to combine these functions for more efficient operation, OFFican >» SURNAME > = orm DATE - — eRe a . tie cnet, ae iis * _ vt beeper etetegeseeremeeeceee ATCA (Rev, 9-53) ABCAL 0240 ‘ . Le. ~ . TU. 8: GOVEMNMENT PRINTING OP FICE! 1074-526-166 - ay Rees a Re, rer “opt . 8 1 4 ¥. so ’ of yeep age re Vee + nye et Cb Joe Ser eo cage a ' . MOeee as t Bag she et: eee a . + ‘ toy toate . wo . . "4 . . . _ : pe . ‘ fo. ’