-2in excess of $2 million during Fiscal year 1976. Page 3, lines 11-14 - "It is an absolute kind of responsibility to both return the people to their home and eliminate the Likelihood of so much as a single radiation induced illness or anomaly." Comments: This objective, while desirable, can never be achieved. The calculated dose levels following clean-up, however, are such that no radiation induced illness or anomaly is expected. As the author indicated, the effects of extremely low level radiation exposures over a long period of time are not known, nor will they be known with any degree of accuracy for a number of years. Decisions must be based upon the pertinent data available and the recommendations of those best qualified to evaluate the data; this approach has been necessary ever since the discovery of radiation. If the return of the people is deferred until the data base is complete, it may be some time before relocation can be effected. While no absolute assurance can be given, the predicted exposure levels are comparable to those in which populations have lived for centuries. Page 6, line 14 to page 7, line 11 - "The survey of radiological conditions at Enewetak Atoll in 1972 under the auspices of the Atomic Energy Commission is, we believe exceptionally good as far as it goes, but we have been advised by capable experts in the field that more work remains to be done and that the qualifications of the four-member Task Group which supervised the conduct of the survey, the assessment of its data and developed final recommendations are open to question. It is also apparent that as detailed and elaborate as that survey was, follow-up gathering of data and careful assessment of that data is absolutely essential, particularly with respect to the risk to health from all lowlevel, long-life radionuclides and especially the danged posed by those alphaemitting radionuclides known as hot particles, such as Plutonium-239 and Americium-241, "We do not wish to detract from the qualification of the members of the Task Group, but in a field involving so many specialties and where equally expert opinions differ markedly, it is imperative that the Task Group for follow-up studies be enlarged to include scientists known to take the most conservative approach to radiation protection, such as Drs. E, A. Martell at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Arthur R. Tamplin at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Donald P. Geesaman, at the University of Minnesota. Their presence in the Task Group, or their participation in some other direct way in designing methods to