866 there ix un immediate danger, then we can pause until the radiological surveys reveal whether the move te Eneu can be made or whether we bave to move fo a leas altrucuve sile. As we informally advised the committee staff last week, the results of the very recent tests of the body burdens of the people living on Bikini TsTand show a significant tnerease in such burdens. While it mitybe arguable whether the test results show “an immediate danger,” we in the Departinent of the Interior are satisfied that the people should be moved from Bikini [sland as soon as it is possible to doso. We have asked the representatives of the Department of Energy to discuss with vou the radiological situation on Bikini and its implications for the people on Bikini Island. and they will de so in a moment. Then the High Commissioner and Fwant to discuss with you our plans for the move of the people from Bikini Tsland. NEED TO RECAST BIKINE REEABILITATION PLANS Toanutst tell vou now, however, that we have suddenly been required to reenst our preliminary plans ina very major wiv, The committee will reentt thac when we testified before you a month ago, we antici pated. on the Iasis of the best information then available to us from the Department of Inergy. that if it were necessary to move the people of Bikini Island to an alternative, safe site, we could expect that the nearby island of Enen world be available for that purpose, Last Thursday we learned that test: of a limited saniple of foodstuffs growing’on Eneu showed an uptake of radionuclides much in excess of those predicted on the basis of the known cesinm and strontinm content of the soil. Accordingly, we have concluded that we must eliminate Bnew as an alternative site, and we have thus revised suab- stantially the plans for temporary settlement, We will outline those plans to vou after the Energy Department discussion of the radio- activity situation on Bikini and neu. ‘To nssist us in our discusion of ourrelocation plans, there are present with me this morning, in addition to Tigh Commissioner Winkel, his District Administrator for the Marshall Islands District, Oscar