8 ae after those tests had been completed. With this flexibility, no conflict is foreseen between those tests and the most optimistic advance of the cleanup work. 4, RECOMMENDATIONS. a. That the single manager concept be adopted for the cleanup and an Ad Hoc Interagency Coordination Committee be established at Washington level to provide planning guidance and to set policy where the responsibilities and interests of several departments or agencies are involved. b. That the program for return of the atoll to the TTPI be divided into the following phases: (1) Survey and Preliminary Planning Phase (2) Cleanup Phase (3) Rehabilitation and Resettlement Phase and that primary responsibility of each of these be assigned a lead agency. c. That an agreement on source and method of funding be obtained. AEC and DNA are funding for the current radiological and engineering surveys required for development of suitable plans. Neither agency intends to provide such support to the cleanup operation without reimbursement. dad. That general approval be given the cleanup scheme which calls for initiation of the actual cleanup operation after results of the October - December 1972 survey are known. e. That in addition to the Department of Interior, the Department of Defense and the Atomic Energy Commission, the following agencies be invited to have representatives attend the Interagency meeting on 7 September: (1) Office, Management and Budget (2) °° Council on Environmental Quality (3) Office of Science and Technology (4) Department of State (5) Department of Justice (6) “Department of Agriculture (7) - (8) (9) (10) Surgeon General's Office (HEW) Environmental Protection “Agency Department of Transportation ~ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration t of Energy Departmen Office _ Historian’ Ss ARCHIVES