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Department of Energy
Washington, D.C. 20545
APR 4
1878
William J. Bair, PNL
William L. Templeton, PNL
Richard 0. Gilbert, PNL
Chester R. Richmond, ORNL
John A. Auxier, ORNL
Chester W. Francis, ORNL
John W. Healy, LASL
Roger Q. McClellan, Lovelace
Bruce W. Wachholz,. DOE
The Department of Energy is providing radiological support to the Defense
Nuclear Agency and Nepartment of the Interior in the cleanup and rehabilitation of Enewetak Atoll. DOE is providing technical advice to these
agencies and certain other services including radiological monitoring,
a .radiochemistry laboratory plus an instrument calibration and maintenance
facility, and data processing and analysis. Also, DOE is to certify
completion of cleanup on an island-by-island basis according to an
agreement with Defense Nuclear Agency. Field services are being provided
at Enewetak by the Nevada Operations Office and its contractors funded by
OES. The cleanup project is expected to continue for about 2-1/2 to
3 years.
’ Pursuant to these activities, there is need for an overview of this project
by a group of experts not directly engaged in the work, who will periodically
evaluate these operations and advise the Director, Operational and Environ-
mental Safety, (OES), and where applicable, the Assistant Secretary for
Envirenment. OES anticipates a schedule that calls for a programmatic
. review of DOE Enewetak radiological support activities about every 6 months
or more frequently if needed.
An initial orientation visit to Enewetak
“will be made with later visits if needed.
This letter will confirm our telephone invitation for your participation
in the Advisory Group on Cleanup of Enewetak Atoll. The first meeting is
scheduled for April 13-14, 1978, at the Nevada Operations Office in the
Main Conference Room, at 9 a.m.
' time.
An agenda wil] be provided at a later
Enclosure I is a draft charter, subject to revision.
Enclosure II is a
preliminary draft report, “Assessment of Potential Doses to Populations
From the Transuranic Radionuclides at Enewetak Atoll," for review.
Another cleaned-up and corrected draft with additional information
(numbers in Tables will not change) should be available before the
April meeting.
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