AQL4a7B et Vi United States Department of the Interior Siar“. R.¢ OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY ede WASHINGTON, D.G. 20240 JUL 1.0 1978 Dr. Robert Conard Medical Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, Long Island, New York 11973 Dear Dr. Thank you Conard: for your letter of June 28, 1978, and the copy of your field report of the annual medical survey of last March-April, 1978, which inciuded a section on the examinations on Bikini Island. A copy of your report will be submitted to the House Interior Subcommittee on Appropriations since Chairman Sidney R. Yates requested that a copy of the report be inserted in the June 19, 1978, hearing records. As you know, there was confusion as to just when you last had examined the residents of Bikini Island. There also was considerable confusion as to what purportedly was said to the residents about eating of coconuts Bikini Island. I was also pleased now growing on to receive the copy of the report on status of the Rongelap-Utirik fallout victims. Sincerely yours, MRS. RUTH G. VAN CURVE Mrs. Ruth Director G. Van Cleve Office of Territorial Affairs cc: | Dr. William Burr, DOE