The Marshall Islands Radiological Safety Program was formally initiated.
Funding levels were’$125,900 for operating and $29,900 for capital equinoment.
Staffing levels were 1.5 man years scientific and professional and 1.0 nan
year technical support.
Greenhouse directed the program.
Arrangements wer2
made to upgrade the BNLHPS analytical lab with the additions of a computer
based nulti-channel analyzer and a hizh efficiency GeLi detector.
Greenhouse and Nelson,
in a joint UWLRE/BNLUPS field trip to the
Northern Marshalls in December 1974,
collected environmental samples and nade
external radiation measurements at Rongelap, Utirik, Rongerik and Bikini Atolls.
Greenhouse, Williams, and Kuehner of BNLHPS, Reilly of the State of Pen-
nsvilvania, Davis of Pacific Gas and tlectric,
and Nelson of UWLRE participated
in an April 1975 field trip to Bixini Atoll.
They collected samples and de-
fined the external radiation environments of Bikini and Enue Islands.
Limited
soil and vegetation sampling were done at Bixini and comparison environmental
samples were collected at Wotho and Kwajalein Atolls.
This field trip es-
tablished the groundwork for a major interagency survey of Bikini and Enue
Islands in June in which Greenhouse participated.
groundwater and some vegetation sampling.
UWLRE,
This survey included soil,
It was performed jointly hy LLL,
the Environmental Protection Agency, and BNLHPS.
Their primary ob-
jective was selection of locations for the second increment of house con-
struction on Bikini and Enue Islands by the Department of the Interior.
FY 1976
Funding levels were $172,000 operating and $20,000 capital equipment.
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Staffing levels were 2.0 man years scientific and professional and 1.0 man