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Commander A.D. Utara, U.S. Coast -Guard
Officer-—in-Charge’
Marine Inspection
P.O. Box 3160
Honolulu, Hawaii
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REMARKS:
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Dear Commander Utara:
Recently, Mr. Bill Stanley, Director of the Department of Energy, Pacific
Area Support Office, gave me a copy of his letter to you dated September 18th,
1979 concerning the classification of the Department of Energy's vessel,
Liktanur II - chartered from U.S. Oceanography (Enclosure 1).
As introduction, I am the Principal Investigator for the Brookhaven National
Laboratory's Medical Survey and follow-up of the people of the Marshall Islands.
Brookhaven National Laboratory is a nonprofit private laboratory, established by _
the Associated Universities, Inc., under contract in this project to the Depart- —
ment of Energy. Those nine universities are among the leading academic centers
of the nation.
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Our mission is to organize a medical survey of Majuro, Ebeye, Rongelap and
Utirik, plus any other islands determined to be of interest to the Department of
Energy.
I was present at the initial negotiations with the U.S. Oceanography for the
vessel, Egabrag, in San Diego a year ago. At that time, I explained in detail
that the medical team included distinguished physicians from throughout the —
United States and other nations.
In addition, we carry a team of Marshall Island
medical personnel, including, usually, a Medical Officer, and a number of technicians and translators. The total number of passengers on the average medical
survey is 17. I gave this figure to Mr. Otterman and Mr. Harry Brown during the
negotiations and included the fact that, in addition, we usually picked up from
two-to-four Marshallese patients as passengers on each one of our trips. Notwithstanding, I understand that during contract negotiations a clause was added limiting
the berthing spaces for the scientific party to 12. On our trip during May and
June of 1979, we had 18 additional Marshallese patients as passengers.
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The first priority for ship usage, as stated by the Department of Energy
Directors of the Marshall Island Studies, goes to the medical programs supported
by Brookhaven National Laboratory.
In essence, this ship is used much like a