BIKINI -2- January 22, 1969 . aireraft of the Kwajalein Missile Range can land to bring in initial supplies and manpower. The logistics of shipping heavy equipment and supplies reportedly heve been arranged for by the military. The AEC has planned 13 weeks for mobilization of the clean-up, but they expect it can be done faster. Director of Community Development, Fran Mahoney said that twelve to twenty Bikinians from Kili Island would be needed by the end of February. Tne AEC plans to start by removing the radioactive ccreap and dumping it at sea. The huze rusting towers would be demolished as would any other unsafe structure and the cement bunkers would be repaired where cracked. The exact scope of the work is not clear at this time, but it is expected that there will be a considerable amount of brush clearing. The brush would be piled for compost, ~ or burnec. x. While the future financing of the Bikini retura is not clear, Trust Territory officials appear to be delighted thet the first step will socn be taken, In other preparations for the return to Bikini, Dr. Robert A. Conard is preparing to do baseline studies on the Bikini people so that the amount of radiation accumulated after their return can be measured, Dr. Conard, of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, hes been reszonsible for the continuing cbservation of the Roncelzo people since their exposure to racioactivity fifteen years azo. -More-