312 RADIOLOGICAL CLEANUP OF ENEWETAK ATOLL Soil Cleanup Planning Underthe Bair criteria, infrequent visits to gathe: should not exceed 160 pC could be transported by trucks loaded on the watercraft in a year’s ume. Use of bulk-haul technique on two of the LCUs and three LCM-8s would increase the estimated capacity to 77,000 cubic yards. For the purposesof discussions, the soil transport estimate was rounded to 80,000 cubic yards. This transportation limit became confused by some planners with the EJS estimate of 79,000 cubic yards of soil over 40 pCi/g to be excised from Aomon, Boken, Lujor, and Runit. [It also became confused with the maximum capacity of the Cactus Crater container. (0-3 centimeters) average Condition A would be lov Agriculture islands, to coconuts, pCi/g to 80 pCi/g. Residential island c concentration of transura not exceed 40 pCi/g. Thi: Since the Bair Comm: agency responsible for ; project, the Director, DN pointed out that, while henceforth be regarded a: accomplishing the most t DOErepresentatives st the entire problem; that soil cleanup data and the to which this conferenc Committee was proposin to pin down the islands Manager for cleanup. The Director, DNA they led to miscalculations of the workload and apparent constraints in soil cleanup planning. The only real constraints on completing the removal and containment of all the contaminated soil were time, based on the dilemma faced in the clea criterion for food-gather: 400 pCi/g. Cleanup of tw. as food-gathering and approximately half of tr resources from, perhaps did not do this, the two might be unacceptabie fc Mr. Roger Ray, DOE-: into believing that an automatically have to be Bair Committee criteria and that the Committee made to comply with th resources. After that we islands where work coui —_—ir clean as possible within the available resources.!93 The conferees then an hectare. On this basis, O: These misunderstandings were significant because, like the Treat factor, scheduled 15 April 1980 completion date, and the capacity of boats to move soil within that time constraint. The new soil volume estimates, coupled with these constraints, posed serious problems. Attempting to clean Enjebi to residential standards would eliminate any other soil cleanup except Runit, and even then there was no assurance that Enjebi could be completed. If this were done, Aomon, Boken, and Lujor would haveto be left with levels over 400 pCi/g and possibly quarantined. On the other hand, cieanup of the other islands would apparently eliminate Enjebi as a future residence island. Also, leaving Runit until last raised the possibility that it might not be cleaned to prescribed standards. Thefinal briefing evolved into a lengthy discussion of alternatives and combinations of options for soil cleanup. Mr. Mitchell, of MLSC, reiterated the position he and the people had taken and maintained from the beginning: every attempt should be made to make every bit of the atoll available to all of the people of Enewetak for any use that they might see fit. Mr. DeBrum, District Administrator of the Marshalls District, affirmed that the TTPI supported the people’s position to have all the islands as pandanus, concentration of transur reviewed and discussed each issue on which a decision was required; and the Director, DNA, after hearing all recommendations, made the necessary decisions to advance the cleanup project. The critical decisions are outlined in the following nine sections. CONTAMINATED SOIL CRITERIA DECISION The first issue considered was the criteria for contaminated soil removal. The criteria recommended by the Bair Committee for nonresidential islands were considerably more stringent than the AEC Task Group guidelines and the guidance furnished by ERDA for the OPLAN. eens nema POS es ria Soeaape. cra