401 B66
DRAFT
8/31/76
James L. Liverman
Assistant Administrator
for Environment and Safety
STATUS OF THE EVALUATION OF PLUTONIUM IN THE MARSHALLESE
Following Dr. Conard's letter of
» which you
brought to our attention, staff of SSC and this Division discussed the
findings of the HASL group with Dr. Conard and with Roger Ray.
Roger
Ray and Tom McCraw were in Hawaii in early August and discussed the
matter further with Oscar de Brum, District Administrator,
District of the Trust Territor
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Marshalls
Prior to their visit, Nat Barr, Bruce
Wachholz and Tom McCraw prepared a statement to be used at the meeting.
The statement was reviewed by Drs. Harley,
and OPA.
See Enclosure 1.
Conard, and Voelz, OGC
As it turned out, it was not necessary to
make this statement public at the Hawaii meeting.
However, in responding
to a specific request from Mr. de Brum, a letter was provided.
See
Enclosure 2.
Subsequent to the meeting Dr. Barr, Dr. Albers, George Magin,
Tom McCraw, Dr. Bruner and I have held further discussions regarding
additional measurements to be made.
Tom McCraw met with Nat Green-
house on August 18 to discuss the additional samples to be collected during
the September Brookhaven visit to the Marshalls.
Urine samples will be
collected from residents of Wotje, Ailuk, Utirik, Rongelap, and Bikini
Atolls and from U.S. residents and residents of Ebeye
Atoll.
at Kwajalein
Pooled and individual samples will be collected for adults and
for those seventeen year old and younger.
analysis in October.
These will be returned for
Containers provided for additional collections will
be picked up during a December visit.
We also feel that it would be useful to bring this matter to the attention of the Transuranium Technical Group or a subcommittee of that
group for their review of what has been ‘lone to date, what is planned and for
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any suggestions they might wish to make.
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