Soil Cleanup Planning Under the Bair criteria, islands designated for food gathering (used for infrequent visits to gather food such as coconut crabs, birds, and eggs) should not exceed 160 pCi/g concentration of transuranics on the surface (0-3 centimeters) averaged over one-half hectare. On this basis, OPLAN Condition A would be lowered from 400 pCi/g to 160 pCi/g. Agriculture islands, to be used principally for commercial crops of coconuts, pandanus, and breadfruit, should not exceed 80 pCi/g concentration of transuranics on the surface averaged over one-half hectare. On this basis, OPLAN Condition B would be lowered from 100 pCi/g to 80 pCi/g. Residential island criteria remained unthanged; 1.¢., surface concentration of transuranics, averaged over one-quarter hectare, should not exceed 40 pCi/g. This coincided with OPLAN Condition C. Since the Bair Committee criteria had been endorsed by DOE, the agency responsible for furnishing radiological advice for the cleanup project, the Director, DNA believed DOD must accept them. However, he pointed out that, while the 40-80-160 pCi/g cleanup criteria would henceforth be regarded as policy, their rigid acceptance must not preclude accomplishing the most beneficial cleanup with resources available. DOE representatives stated that the Bair Committee had not been given the entire problem; that is, the Committee did not have access to all the soil cleanup data and the engineering soil removal and movementfactors to which this conference had been exposed. Therefore, although the Committee was proposing priorities for cleanup, it was not actually trying to pin down the Islands that should be selected by the DOD Project a de>ater he FES pari ~ ot The Director, DNA then stated that he was concerned about the dilemma faced in the cleanup if he unequivocally agreed to 160 pCi/g as the criterion for food-gathering islands, as opposed to the originally specified 400 pCi/g. Cleanup of two islands, Boken and Lujor, desired by the people as food-gathering and agricultural islands respectively, would utilize approximately half of the soil transport available, thus diverting these resources from, perhaps, a more beneficial application. He felt that if he did not do this, the two islands might have to be quarantined, and this might be unacceptable for political and humanitarian reasons. Mr. Roger Ray, DOE-NV, stated that it was important not to get trapped into believing that an island which did not meet 160 pCi/g would automatically have to be quarantined. He expressed the opinion that the Bair Committee criteria should not be accepted in a literal interpretation and that the Committee would expect that sensible trade-offs would be made to comply with these criteria as closely as possibile within available resources. After that was done, some restrictions might be required on islands where work could not be completed. ole Managerfor cleanup.