eer, ( JW etHHiAK2 SLI] 7 & 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. -