RECOMMENDATIONS

AS TO RADIOLOGICAL

SAFETY PROGRAM

“Compact of Free Association

Authority:

Act of 1985,” a joint resolution,

Title I.

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Commitment to fund resettlement

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Commitment to restore Bikini Atoll to habitability.

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Commitment to restore, if necessary,

of Enjebi, if feasible.

Rongelap to habitability.

Subsidiary Agreement to Compact Section 177, Article VI, “The
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Government of the United States reaffirms
provided funds for the resettlement

DOE, through BNL, fund the’completion

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RMI Government

to the po~ulations
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of Bikini Atoll . . ..”

of the plutonium in urine analysis

(through FY 1988) to veri~y assessments
in overall~dose

its commitment

of the total contribution

in the northern Marshall

fund periodic bioassay verification

of Pu

Islands.

for resettled communities.

Duration: Through FY 1988 if data is sufficient; ”if not, through FYs 1989 or

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1990.
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RATIONALE FOR DOE TO PROVIDE THIS PROGRAM

Fulfills DOE commitment to report on radiation conditions

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for protective actiops

and resettlement.
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Alternatives:

The capability to analyze Pu in urine does not exist outside
BNL at this time, and this contribution

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to total dose is necps-

sary to ascertain.
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