Not to cite a lot of problems without any suggestions, I recommend that a white paper be developed that clarifies DOE's position on radiation protection policy as applied to the Marshalls along with answers to the questions on the total radiation exposure experience on Rongelap. A good source of - yadiological data and advice on these exposures and their implications is available at Brookhaven National Laboratory (see Attachment 11). Translation into Marshallese would be needed, the Environmental Protection Agency should be informed, and the paper provided to the Marshallese through Dol. I further recommend that there is a valuable lesson in the creation of this situation that needs to be told. Regardless of interests that were served, and certainly not those of the Marshallese, from a health physics viewpoint, transfer of a unique radiological safety program to DP/NV, a program that required a high degree of coordination and cooperation between DOE, DOI, and EPA at the Washington level, was a mistake. DP's interest in the program appears to have been primarily the altruistic interests of one person who wanted to change radiological rules used in the Marshalls, rules that were causing hardships through loss of use of contaminated land. EP's ignoble interest in transferring the program to DP was apparently to get rid of a hot potato, and had nothing to do with Safeguard C. The result is a new low in the annals of radiation protection standards implemention that should serve as a warning to those who follow narrow self-serving interests. ee — 1. of | orm T. Ll baeed Tommy F. McCraw Health Physics Radiological Controls Division Office of Nuclear Safety Attachment 9081551