Mbbgh Ls BRagUR et Tene a agriculturalist, 5 aeaR0 an anthropologist and representatives of the Pacific Islands Trust Territories, Department of the Interior. Eight of the moSt highly qualified experts available were asked to review the survey material. After meeting with mem- bers of the survey team and examining their reports, these consuitants reached the unanimous conclusion that it would be radiologically safe to allow the Bikini people to return to their home atoll. Their report was forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior earlier this month. While Bikini is best known as a weapons testing site, it has also contributed significantly to man's knowledge of the long term effects of radiation on an environment. During the years when radiation levels were too high for people to live there permanently, the AEC sponsored several scientific studies on the atoll. In fact, Bikini truly served as a living ecological laboratory. Before it was either a proving ground or laboratory, though, Bikini was a home land. Having been closely associated with nuclear energy, for all these years, and Bikini, I find it particularly gratifying now to take part in the atoll's return c to usefulness as a home for the Bikinian people. Copies of the technical data from #@ee survey are available for examination at the Public Document Room in AEC's Washington office at 1717 H Street.