the Pacific Basia Study, comtnenced in 1975. a collaborative effort with Nelson of UWLRE which ad During Mav, another field trip to ‘fajuro and Xili vas com- pleted by ‘filtenberger and Lessard. They whole-body counted 129 persons, of which had been relocated from Bikini Island in August of 1978. 79 The whole- bod counts on Marshallese psersons other than the forner 3ikinians provided Saseline body burden and urine radionuclide excretion rate data for comparison purnoses. During August and September 1979, Miltenberger, Lessard, and Jillingham of BNLSEP, 3alsamo, Hunt Sherwin of Enertech Corporation, and Rademacher of St. Mary's College, participated in a field trip. They re-established the air sampling programs at Kwajalein, Rongelap and Utirik, continued the routine environmental monitoring program at Rongelap and Utirik and continued the whole- bod; counting programs formerly performed by BNL medical. Rongelap, At Utirik and Brown of DOE Pacific Area Support Office (PASO) restated a former BNL promise. He said that the electric generating windmill apparatus would be given to the people in working order following collection of air sampling data for one year. During this trip, 150 whole=body counts and 146 urine samples had been collected. tricity. Coconut, selection sites. In addition, the windmills were left generating elec- pandanus and breadfruit had been obtained from traditional Brown of DOEPASO, Otterman of US Oceanography, and “iltenberger and Lessard of BNLSEP prepared sketches and plans for a new whole~body counting trailer. tars. The new design incorporated two chair type coun- Their design maximized the use of available equipment and space, mininized the discomfort of the Marshallese and eliminated many of the pre- vious trailer design deficiencies. 12