AODGAG Subject: Background and Policy Input of Bair Committee The basic concept for a team of experts, such as the Bair Committee, is contained in the AEC Task Group report” as follows: "A team of experts should be assembled who can make and interpret field radiation and radioactivity measurements, advise on cleanup actions envolving plutonium and other radionuclides, and provide necessary health physics support including protection of workers, decontamination of workers and equipment, and packaging and handling of collected contaminated materials. A Public Health ..... Enewetak Cleanup." During a symposium held at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory (LLL) in tate June i977, the participants - a group of concerned but unnamed engineers and scientists - questioned the AEC cleanup criteria and the method of disposal of contaminated soil. The Manager, ERDA NVOO, provided this information to the Assistant Administrator for Environment and Safety by letter 6 July 1977 which suggested that a critical review of the AEC cleanup guidance and proposed disposal method for contaminated soil be made. As a result, a group of -eminent scientists met at ERDA NVOO in August 1977 with ERDA Germantown representatives and DNA representatives to review the potential problems. The general consensus was agreement in principal with what had been proposed. Committee after the appointed Chairman) was formed by ERDA, Division of Opez ational and Environmental Safety during the spring of 1978. The Sth in aan) Wy Abivelbonrnes he * As an outgrowth of this review, the Enewetak Advisory Group (Bair TAB C 4/18/79 ro 5 Sg un \